I just loaded up Paladin's Legacy to give it a try. I was thinking about doing a "slog" like Stu did with Gates of Delirium.
Unfortunately, the game's got some serious flaws with the game play. In particular, the early grind curve is brutal. You start with 50 gold and 20 food, and no weapons or armor. While you start with a good number of hit points, they go very fast. And when I hunted around to find an Inn or someplace to get more hit points, the only one I found was a bishop who would sell a healing potion for 100 gold. Keep in mind you're getting 1-2 gold per monster kill here, and after a dozen or so fights you're nearly dead. I split my ability score points evenly among all four; possibly overloading Strength and Dexterity at the start of the game may give a bit of an edge, but I doubt it's enough.
Now when you die, you get send to a graveyard. This is cool, but when you talk to the Resurrector, he restores you to the START OF THE GAME. No experience, level 0, 20 food, 50 gold. What the heck?! Unless I cheat, there's nothing short of pure LUCK or a lot of save/restores to somehow magically scrape enough money/XP together to get ahead of the curve so you can actually afford to get healing. I don't even know if going up in level will help at all... I've gotten around 130 XP and the Queen still won't raise me a level.
It's really a pity, because I can tell you that the game's got a LOT more interesting dialogue than Gates of Delirium, by a long shot. Every NPC gabs on and gives you a lot of information. They even have NAMES. He has a decent background and plot mapped out. And some funny stuff too. But with no way to recover HP without cheating or pure luck... I just can't play it any further.
I just loaded up Paladin's Legacy to give it a try. I was thinking about doing a "slog" like Stu did with Gates of Delirium.
Unfortunately, the game's got some serious flaws with the game play. In particular, the early grind curve is brutal. You start with 50 gold and 20 food, and no weapons or armor. While you start with a good number of hit points, they go very fast. And when I hunted around to find an Inn or someplace to get more hit points, the only one I found was a bishop who would sell a healing potion for 100 gold. Keep in mind you're getting 1-2 gold per monster kill here, and after a dozen or so fights you're nearly dead. I split my ability score points evenly among all four; possibly overloading Strength and Dexterity at the start of the game may give a bit of an edge, but I doubt it's enough.
Now when you die, you get send to a graveyard. This is cool, but when you talk to the Resurrector, he restores you to the START OF THE GAME. No experience, level 0, 20 food, 50 gold. What the heck?! Unless I cheat, there's nothing short of pure LUCK or a lot of save/restores to somehow magically scrape enough money/XP together to get ahead of the curve so you can actually afford to get healing. I don't even know if going up in level will help at all... I've gotten around 130 XP and the Queen still won't raise me a level.
It's really a pity, because I can tell you that the game's got a LOT more interesting dialogue than Gates of Delirium, by a long shot. Every NPC gabs on and gives you a lot of information. They even have NAMES. He has a decent background and plot mapped out. And some funny stuff too. But with no way to recover HP without cheating or pure luck... I just can't play it any further.