In this episode of THE BURN, hosts Aviv Icel Manoach and Omer Timetwister Kaplan discuss the newest game to be adorned with the Dungeons & Dragons title: Dark Alliance, a reboot of the original franchise from the beginning of the 2000s'. On the news: Crysis has remastered again; Playerunknown with a new game and No Man's Sky fresh update.
Original recording date - September 3, 2021.
Game of the Show: Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
Published by Tuque Games, MSRP $40, Buy on Steam
I really really REALLY wanted to like this game: On the surface, it has all the components of something I would enjoy: Warhammer Vermintide II vibe, some Destiny II co-op game that you can also solo, distinct classes (no magic wielders T_T) nice campaign with enemies that are all voice acted (the ‘acts’ feel very nice), diverse enemies - but some reason I couldn’t stick to it for more than 5-6 hours and I wonder why.
The gameplay of Dark Alliance is fairly unique: The developers wanted to create a ‘skill based’ third-person game so instead of a hack-and-slash (which is what I’d like to do) you get a combo system, few types of dashes and a complex parry-block system with each enemy has their own mechanics. The control scheme isn’t super intuitive (must play with a controller, mouse and keyboard scheme was hard for me to play with).
The real issue I had with this game is that it’s wasn’t fun solo, at all (as opposed to Vermintide II that give you bots or destiny which is 100% solo-able in story mode). The classes complement each other so if you’re not matchmaking it feels lacking and to me felt kind of lonely and unfun. I took FOREVER to find a group and by the time I found one they were high level and sprinted through the map.
I may get back to the game someday but I really wanted to like it, and it feels bad that I didn’t.
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