Reviews for Arcuz (Full Version)

[dwarfpriest]

Loving it so far

It's a really fun time waster, and I just play it whenever I can. My only complaint is that the monsters' levels is a bit disparate. When you start to kill some monster with one hit, and take less than 5 hit points of damage, the others in the same are deals 300+ points of damage, requiring you to constantly upgrate your gear, something hard given how litle money you get, and the need for some drops that are hard to find. Other than that, the item creation is fun, and the game controls are nearly perfect (took me hours to get how to fight the flying creatures).

[SagBag]

I've never been so torn with a game.

This game tries so hard to make me want to love it. I so desperately want to love it back, but I just can't. The monsters are just too damn hard. At one point I only had around 340 hp or so and some of the monsters I ran in to have done 500+ damage. I'm only in chapter two and doing fetch quests for towns people and I'm getting my ass handed to me. So after leveling up a few times and I put everything into defence and hp. Then as I tried to do the mission again, two enemies did 250+ damage simultaneously and I'm dead again.

I've seen some people complain that taking away exp and gold makes it too hard, but I disagree. There need to be some punishment for dying instead of a game over. So it fine with me.

I'm sure I could just grind on weaker enemies until I'm strong enough to beat the tougher baddies, but I would rather just play another game. Mostly because I know once I push through and become strong enough to kill them, even more powerful ones are just around the corner. And I just don't have the patience for that. I guess I could also just run past the harder enemies and just try to finish the quests, but that`s no fun and I doubt that`s how the game was ment to be played.

The game is clearly well made by very talented people that know what they`re doing. It looks awesome and plays great (although there was one time when I somehow duplicated my sword, but that`s no biggie). And as you can tell by my score I liked the game. This could easily have been one of my favorite game in a long time. If the enemy difficulty curve had been smoother things would be different. But as it stands, the game is too frustrating for me to play.

[Kevlar922]

Good but could be better

The fighting is always very one sided(either it's very easy or impossable) and the composition system is either broken or it's just very poorly explained within the game, I'd love to actually use some of my larger crystals so I can get them out of my inventory but it seems like no combination at all works(yes i've tried using the lvl2 crystals with an item that already has a lvl1 enchantment and tried using soul gems and even holy gems...no dice). Also I don't understand the incumbrance system, it doesn't matter how much weight you can carry you still only get three pages worth of items in your inventory. Other then that this game has alot of promise.

[DarkCrusade14]

HUUUUUUUUU...

I Like this game.... enchantment was great combine wind and water = thunder that can stun them when you attack them.. great game

[The-Winged-Serpent]

I wish I could rate Higher, But...

there are several huge problems...

1) the only character stat that is useful is the luck increase.
---> the others are not even necessary as i found out.
2) the crystals are junk that are only good for pawning of for gold..
---> I perfectly understand how enchanting is done. but i have found only one blessing stone(the starter that you are given before the real quests start.), yet there are plenty of small water and fire crystals. I gave up trying to find any after 35 minutes.
3) when you die you lose all of your gold and most of your experience.
4) there are only 4 enemies that don't kill you instantly in one shot.
---> the level 1 green slimes, the level 3 easy wolves, the level five yellow slime, and the level 7 wolves(aside from that tough one you face in silent hill).
---> everything kills you in one successful attack regardless of what your level is and what stat level, skills and items you possess.

good try and all that effort put in is nice, but these problem are not ones I can look over,