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92This is a rock solid, genuinely excellent first effort by this developer. It's a title I intend to continue playing for the foreseeable future, and one I definitely recommend to those willing to give it a shot.
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90It's apparent that the team who made this put a great deal of love into it. Where other other companies seem content to port classics with a few overhauls, here's an entirely new game that feels like a classic. Now that's refreshing.
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Black Sigil features many of the staples that make a good RPG and I really enjoyed it. The high encounter rate and top screen graphics are about the only things that I didn't like.
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Playing an old-school RPG is great with dual screens and Archcraft have seen to every last detail. The dialogue is first rate (talk to everybody; the maids, farmers…), the systems easy to assimilate, and the visuals are vibrant and painstakingly detailed. Great BGM too.
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80This is definitely not a game for the impatient or easily frustrated, and if you can look at the game's foibles as endearing "retro-chic" quirks, then there is joy to be found in Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled.
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73It does a lot of things right and tells a pretty good story, and if you've been a genre fan since the early 90s then it'll definitely bring back great memories. Still, Black Sigil is frustrating in many ways, and if you aren't familiar with the games it takes inspiration from then you probably won't find much to enjoy here.
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70It's not a perfect game, but it has a definite charm, and fans of the SNES era RPGs will probably find a lot to like.
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Fans of SNES-era RPGs will definitely appreciate the presentation and return of the ATB/Dual-Tech system found in Chrono Trigger. The frequency of random battles, however, really decreases one's enjoyment of the game and changes it into an endurance run of random battles.
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There's a lot of game here, constructed in a way that may prove interesting to a select few. The pacing, however, is slow and mired further by endless random encounters.
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65While Black Sigil comes with all the basic trappings of a traditional RPG, it's too frustrating and unoriginal to stand out.
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A new made role-player with a strong retro theme, Black Sigil provides plenty of game but doesn't mark out any new territory.
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60There are going to be gamers that will devour this game and relish how this brand new adventure feels like a ported title from the 16-bit era and some more discerning RPG gamers will lament the fact that some polish and fine tuning weren't completed in time for the final product.
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58While I couldn't recommend this game to anyone not looking for a slow-paced grindfest, Black Sigil has a few redeeming aspects if you're able to stomach its encounter rate.
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55This is no classic of yesteryear, no matter how hard it's trying to masquerade as one. And it's a game that certainly will not go on to be well remembered itself, 10 or 15 years from now.
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If for no other reason, Black Sigil is worth a look if you were a huge 16-bit RPG fan and spend as much time reminiscing about the gameplay over graphics simpler times as I do.
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Black Sigil's big-picture rewards are too fleeting and familiar to justify the considerable effort. [Sept 2009, p.101]
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Random encounters happen too often, take too long, and involve too much sitting and waiting for the active-time gauge to fill up. [June 2009, p.90]
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50Black Sigil's unpleasant combat is truly a shame, because just about everything else in the game successfully emulates the feeling of playing a great lost Super Nintendo RPG.
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A title for the hardcore and masochistic, Black Sigil is most likely to discourage casual players.
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This is a love letter to 16-bit RPGs, albeit written in really messy handwriting. [Sept 2009, p.73]
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42I don't feel like it's portable friendly, and while I'd give Chrono Trigger a pass on that because it's a port, Black Sigil has always been in development as a handheld game of some kind, but the end result doesn't feel like it.
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It's just so not remarkable, so bland, so... not interesting... you get what I'm saying. Slow and lame, that's what I'm saying.
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30RPGs are going to have to do a lot more these days than simply say "Look at how old school I am" in order to impress. This game has not done that. It's not really done anything well at all.
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25Black Sigil is a game made to deliberately give an old school experience. However, that experience is mired in tedium, never-ending combat, a story which is both mediocre and convoluted, and several huge glitches.
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