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The decision not to regenerate vitality only serves a purpose if it leads to a difficult long-term battle against attrition, rather than encourage the player to keep trash combat as boring as he/she can.Ĭonsidering I spent a good part of this review highlighting some major problems, you might have the impression that I disliked the game. As mentioned, there weren't too many trash mobs for me, and combat tends to be over quick which alleviates the problem, but if that's the best you can say about the majority of fights, then that's a problem. On one side this is sensible within the system, and better than forcing the player to travel back to rest all the time, on the other hand this is a major mistake, as it drains trash combat of the already bare bits of fun they usually provide. I didn't experiment with difficulties and this problem deep into the game, but early on torment I could go up against an army of wretches can be passed without using skills more than a few times. This encourages careful players like myself to drag out trash combat, consisting of nothing more than you clicking on enemies to chip down their HP. Whereas in Avernum such fights were all about preserving HP and using skills cleverly for every fight, in Avadon you can freely sacrifice HP even if you (die) the character just pops up after combat as long as one is left standing. This sounds great on paper, until you realize exactly what it means.
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That said, the value of vitality over health means trash mobs are exactly what the name implies: overly easy fights that do not require you to use any skills or items to get through. For that reason, skills do not use huge amounts of vitality and there are regeneration pools at key points. Jeff Vogel seemed well aware of the necessity of preserving vitality, not wanting to force players to regularly slog back to the pillar, which is just boring. So far so good, there's nothing wrong with that in principle and it works well for the tougher fights. These pillars aren't always available, meaning the difficulty in many parts of the game should stem not from the fight being hard to get through, but rather the fight being passable without using up too much of your precious vitality and items. In Avadon, your hit points regenerate outside of combat (at a fairly high rate), while your vitality can only be restored through potions or by going to the traveling pillars. We have such traits and skills as vitality, defense, or precise strikes at our disposal.Of 4 Yet I have to put yet another 'but' here. As we gain experience, the protagonist advances to higher levels and then we decide the direction of his development.
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Starting out, we cannot modify statistics of the chosen hero. As a result, we traverse the world in a 3-member party. During the adventure, the protagonist is joined by many different NPCs. To do so, we become a representative of one of four available classes: blade master (a counterpart of a classical warrior), sorceress, shaman, or the so-called shadow walker, which is rogue in other RPGs. The main task is to protect the Alliance formed by five grand nations. In the game, we assume the role of a knight in service of a powerful sect, Avadon, which is seated in the eponymous Black Fortress. It was developed by Spierweb Software, known to players thanks to the Avernum series.
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Avadon: The Black Fortress for PC, AND and iOS is an old-school fantasy RPG inspired by the classics of the genre.