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Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms
Released On: Nov 14, 2014
74
7.1
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
74
47% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
53% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
74
47% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
53% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms provides a great value and a superb action RPG experience.
Thanks to a good plot and some original ideas, Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is a good exponent of the genre of action RPG, solid and fun. Graphically valid and scalable, for maximum details requires a great gaming system.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 59 User Ratings
7.1
61% Positive
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
20% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
19% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 59 User Ratings
7.1
61% Positive
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
20% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
19% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
Ok I ll start by saying this game made me create an account here to rate and review it thats how much I liked it and want to support it any way I can. I am a very hard to please gamer especially with single player games these days I think most ****.
But Heretic Kingdoms is very very good. Interesting story check. Immersive gameplay check. Cool graphicks check. New and innovative features unlike any arpg before check.
It also includes an amazing soundtrack to wrap things up and the dialogue and voice acting is immersive but also fun.
10/10 would recommend to everybody. Arpg fans and non arpg fans.
I haven't finished the game yet. I am halfway through chapter 2 but I am already looking forward to replaying it with the other characters. And I am really exited that there is book 2 and 3 coming!
Ok for negatives I can think of 1 thing that kinda bothered me that there is no respec. Not even confirmation when you pick skills to level up. But I read a dev post somewhere that respec is coming so its all good.
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A classic RPG, well-executed, with an intense storyline and good graphics. It has some bugs, needs more variety of loot items and enemies, but it's an interesting Diablo III alternative.
I welcome the slow paced combat which puts soul balancing and character exchange before abilities. The surprisingly deep story also is a breath of fresh air. But not all is well, especially in the engine department.
A game that may be too classic and entertaining, but the joy won't last for long due to its poor pacing.
The ideas that could have made this a great game are often undermined by the actual clicking feeling subpar.
quelle surprise! Like this game very much. Played it now for about 6 hrs. Exciting story, nice graphics, good voice actors and smooth ARPG gameplay = great game!
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Good game with some nice ideas and a few major flaws.
In Heretic Kingdoms you take the control of the Devourer: a demon that can eat people's souls and use them as puppets. It's an ARPG in the Diablo style but, due to the Devourer's power, you'll control a variety of different characters instead of a single one. This makes the game feel fresh and interesting.
Too bad the game has some big flaws:
Loading screen are insanely long and there are quite a lot. There's a loading screen even for when you
want to change the party formation - you can have only 3 characters in your party plus the devourer - which made me almost never try new characters combination and killing one of the best characteristics of the game. You can't even equip or level up the inactive characters without traveling to the character select room (which is pointless also because it's just a room with the "puppets" and a single vendor, there was really no need to have it), leading to a very cluttered inventory. It also kills exploration. You will really spend a insane amount of time on loading screens, and you will think twice about loading the game if you don't have a lot of free time on your hands.
Controls are bad. Really bad. They're unresponsive, the character often stops insted of attacking or just moves away, right mouse button is useless and the feeling is generally very very clunky. The combat feels often like a chore and it's not too funny.
Crafting is very tedious and pointlessly time consuming due to the badly readable interface for it. Absolutely pointless, also because you can never craft items better than what you find.
Now for the good part of it... there are some really good ideas in this. The party system is very interesting and adds something new to a overused genre. The world is beautiful and engaging, and makes you want to know more about it. The graphics are quite good: clean, readable, colorful, stylish.
The musics are absolutely fantastic. My favourite part of the game. They have a sort of arabic influence and are really, really astonishing and never bore the player.
All in all, a pretty decent game that gets pulled down by a few inexplicable flaws.
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It s rare nowdays for game like this one to be seen and played good story and combat graphics ok descent bad : voice cast is ludicrus mediocre at best lifelless npc or interactions even at low settings lagg and sttuter is almost constand frustrating at some points unless patches or coming it s best left alone
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This game is **** makes me feel funny I have epilepsy this game is bad I hate the game makes me shake my eyes go funny to never download if you have epilepsy
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Pros and Cons:
Cons: The combat is clunky.. it does not fell responsive like d3 and I mean its about the same price...
You start at lvl 19? and stats are alredy chosen for you
You fell weak right at the start of the game
The big flaw is controls are HORRIBLE!!!
Pros: I like the graphics and thats it... Go buy a real action rpg like diablo 3 they have it at 40$ with the expanssion...
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Summary In the action-RPG Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms players are caught up in a terrible conspiracy and propelled upon an epic journey through a world of dark fantasy. They take control of the Devourer, a demon that swallows the souls of the dead and brings them back into the mortal realm as puppets.
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Nov 14, 2014
Developer:
- Games Farm
Publisher: bitComposer
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