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King’s Bounty: Dark Side – As a long-standing game franchise, from the early day’s King’s Bounty (1990) has not only built up its name with its charismatic turn-based role-playing game but also created a “foundation” for the series of Heroes of Might and Magic (turn-based strategy, coming to the 7th version soon).
It was because of the launch and the overwhelming success of the Heroes of Might and Magic series that people quickly forgot about King’s Bounty, until the brand was acquired by 1C Company, one of the software publishers and developers. Russia’s largest acquisition, King’s Bounty truly evolved into the game line and “revived”.
In his debut after nearly two decades of being forgotten, King’s Bounty: The Legend (2008) has had countless unexpected successes.
But also because it is too “preserved” for the formula of success, after 4 repeated versions of many elements, the idea of this famous game series has gone into a rut – when even the fans are crazy the most heat gradually “loss of enthusiasm”.
Realizing that risk, Katauri Games has made a commendable change by bringing us a brand new, recently released version: King’s Bounty: Dark Side.
Contrary to the old “routine”, which arbitrarily set up a fight and then let the player act as “hero’s salvation”, King’s Bouty: Dark Side chose a different direction.
For the first time in King’s Bounty’s history, players can experience up to three different storylines, depending on the character class they choose.
With the Orc general Bagyr representing the Warrior class, the demoness Neoline – the demoness princess representing the Knights class, and the vampire prince Daert representing the Mage class – it could be said that yes As the name implies, the plot of King’s Bouty: Dark Side will put players in the perspective of the … dark side characters.
Despite having the same background, that is … being exterminated by the righteous factions, but the fighting motives of the characters in King’s Bounty: Dark Side are not the same.
Bagyr was burdened with submission to the nation, and the leader of the Orc clan to regain glory was trampled upon by the coalition of Elves.
Neoline only wanted to escape the Siege of the Knights of Light, since the Demoness race was “dead”.
The handsome Daert wanted to unite the power of dark creatures and join forces with the mighty Demon Hunters.
No matter what starting point you choose, King’s Bounty: Dark Side players will still face a tough start, everywhere you look… enemies.
This can be seen as a commendable improvement of Katauri Games when using this trick to make players pay more attention to the lines to understand the plot – which used to be … fast-forwarded because it was too boring. !
Since the first version, King’s Bounty: The Legend, until now, this series still uses a graphics platform.
Although I don’t agree with this kind of “idle”, still have to admit King’s Bounty’s line has a very good graphics platform.
With King’s Bounty: Dark Side, it seems that Katauri Games has broken out to new heights, using only the tools inherent in hand to create a perfect dark world.
It doesn’t take an expert to notice the graphic innovations of King’s Bounty: Dark Side.
The most notable highlight is the environment in the game.
From the familiar green, charming green steppes in previous versions – players will now be able to experience a fierce battlefield filled with Orc corpses, a red lava fire just saw it hot … sweat, a dead spirit with ghosts lurking behind the dark corner …
Katauri Games has been very successful in recreating the atmosphere of different worlds, to give players a different view of the worldview, especially when considering the issue from the side of those who have been considered “evil”.
The types of armies in King’s Bounty: Dark Side are also quite richly and meticulously invested.
I don’t understand why, but now when looking at the new units like the Cerberus, Vampire Lord, the Goblin…, it is clear that they have a much better aura and charisma when placed next to the old units.
Maybe Katauri Games has used many new tactics in the design and shaping process should also.
Music in King’s Bounty: Dark Side is also a bright plus, when in addition to the familiar epic scenes, now players can also enjoy the souls of those who resent on the battlefield. The music “supports the heart” is both stimulating and nervous as walking in the ghost world, the melodies are melodious when stepping from the ground to the blue sky, white clouds …
As a commendable, improved version, like King’s Bounty: Dark Side still has a lot of petty mistakes.
Fortunately, these defects themselves are not too serious to damage the “true value” of the product.
For the most part, the mistakes of King’s Bounty: Dark Side are still the flaws that have remained since King’s Bounty’s series debuted in its early days.
First of all to mention the bad game guide mechanism.
With a game with this much amount of soldiers, skills, and other elements, Katauri Games knows how to make it … difficult for gamers without a tutorial at all.
Players are thrown straight into the spiral of controversy between three factions of god – human – ghost and have to manage themselves.
Especially with this King’s Bounty: Dark Side, each faction has new character mechanics, such as Adrenaline (Orc), Necro Energy (Vampire), and Frenzy (Demoness) – but in addition to groping on their own, the player has no other method of finding out.
If the player is the “veteran” of the turn-based strategy game series or has been with King’s Bounty’s early days, then don’t say anything.
But for newcomers, the difficulty of King’s Bounty: Dark Side has suddenly increased since chapter 2, making every step of the player’s progress will be very difficult.
Winning is difficult, wanting to win with low casualties is even more difficult!
In the end, it was even divided into three classes of characters, but all three shared a skill board that divided into the three branches of Strength, Leadership, and Magic.
The difference is that each class is “suggested” to develop purely for its table.
