Light and medium armor, shields, simple and martial weaponsĪn inspiring magician whose power echoes the music of creation Much more challenge is no doubt available if you go out of your way to ignore the game's advice - but blasting through it as I did mercifully helped to make the questionable, pun-heavy writing breeze by me without causing too much annoyance.A fierce warrior of primitive background who can enter a battle rage
Stages come with a suggested level attached and can be played in any order - and I decided to keep it simple and not go against that advice, playing the levels in sequential level order. I never found much of a challenge in the stages I was able to blast through them with relative ease, but I also tackled them in the recommended order. The stages are largely a simple A to B affair with occasional branches and quirks in the path to lead to a hidden chest that might contain a bonus, or simply an alternative path.Ĭombat is typical of the genre - depending on how you approach it, you'll either find it annoyingly repetitive or find a lot of joy in developing slightly different combos with which to tear enemies to shreds with. With a linear structure comes a more basic level and mission structure, with the game having around fifteen full-size story based missions and a slightly larger number of side-quest missions. Weapon Spirits can be discovered in chests on the battlefield and offer bonuses to the individual or to the party or debuffs to the enemy, also - but you just don't get that loot 'ding', which is missed. Weapons are at least are equippable, but rarely offer the sort of addictive loot rush that previous Sacred titles had to offer. Available out of the box is a brawling Warrior, a ranged Archer, a more considered Lancer and a Seraphim, an angelic class that is most comparable to a Paladin.Įach of the classes comes with their own unique set of moves, but with the transition towards more action-focused combat, some of what actually made the classes feel different is admittedly lost.
One thing RPG fans will still find familiar are the base characters, which come in four different flavors (with additional available via pre-order bonus and the like), each of which fits a basic RPG archetype. With that said, there are still elements here that are likely to keep fans of the original Sacred formula interested. It's vital for you to understand - assuming you're reading this site because you're an RPG fan - that this entry pulls back on RPG elements heavily.Ī free-roaming world of sorts is swapped for a mostly linear design, and ogling statistics to build out a character that suits you is traded instead for ploughing through legions of enemies with button combinations. That fact must, of course, come first in any verdict we pass on the game.
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