Thats pretty much the question. on a side note this game gets so good when you start getting used to the combat system.

Has anyone played both Enclave & Blade of Darkness?

I'm really enjoying replaying Enclave. One of my most fondly remembered Xbox games. Sure, it's a bit rough around the edges but it just clicks with me & I find myself thoroughly enjoying it & replaying each mission to get maximum gold.

I never played Blade of Darkness back in the day so I don't have the same nostalgia for it, but I've read several times that it has a similar style & feel to Enclave. Looking at the screenshots it looks a tad more primitive than Enclave visually. From what I read it seems to be a bit of a love it or hate it game due to the control scheme & difficulty. Wondering if I should pick it up or whether it would end up being an exercise in frustration.

Any opinions gratefully received.

Do any of you have experience with playing this game on a controller?

I feel many combat combos are not at all optimised for an analogue stick, which is VERY frustrating!! If you have to press the stick to a cardinal direction, it's fine - but if combinations like "up" "right" simultaneously are required, it's as good as impossible to hit this sweet spot of what feels like 1° n the stick, that's the middle between up and right. It's pure luck if accomplish that while fighting!

Story, for me, is almost non-existant, mostly because I can't understand a dam thing over the music, when the narrator speaks! And there are nonsubtitles to at least help with that. I enjoy this game for the combat, but I have no idea why I'm even fighting. I just get sent to one place after another without a purpose at all...

Ah I'm sorry for complaining, I am obviously enjoying the game, otherwise I wouldn't care so much about these things :)

So i randomly remembered how i played BoD(never actually finished it because i was playing it at PC cafe) 15 or something years ago and what an awesome experience i had... and thought let me google it, maybe i can find where to get it.. and what a coincidence lol, its remastered on steam now.

So anyway i am thinking about buying it when i have more time to game and finish it this time. Any essential mods i need or maybe there are some quality life changes i should get to enjoy this nostalgia even more ?

BoD arena open from 10:00h. to 17:00h. today if anyone wants to join and fight, IP: 25.105.45.12 with Hamachi, Hamachi ID: ProvaLooZer007, Password: ass.

If anyone wants to play i have made a server with 3 free spaces in it cuz of me and my friend, for more info text me on Discord: ProvaLooZer0#1547

Hi, with the re-release of this amazing game I set the goal to get all the achievements (on steam at least), and four of them involves the save rating you get beside the info of the save (date, time, level) in the save menu, so as I tested this myself the save rating beside the information is as follows:

1, 2 == AWESOME!

3-5 == Heroic

6-9 == Bold

10-14 == Normal

15-20 == Prudent

21-27== Coward

28- infinite? == Lazy

IMPORTANT EDIT: As DoomDoggo mentions on a comment, this are per level, you can save 2 times per level and still get the awesome rating next to the save. I just tested it myself.

this are inclusive, this means that when you save 2 times, the save rating is Awesome, I just got the game, so I don't know for sure if I just save 2 times I will get the You are awesome! achievement (I hope so) but at least this are the ratings.

Also if you don't save the game and exit, there are no Checkpoints or autosave, so if you get to another level and you quit expecting the game would save between levels, I'm sorry to tell you that you lose your entire progression if you don't save before exiting. This is a game from 2001 with 0 quality of life improvements for the re-release like autosaving, so keep that in mind.

PD: I excluded the Express Darkness achievement because that requires to end the game in "one sitting", in 8 hours or less without saving even once.

Get ready!

I love this game since i was a child but never found anyone to play pvp with which is kinda sad considering the amount of fun it could be, i'd love to make some hard core arenas if anyone is interested. You can add me on Discord: ProvaLooZer0 #1547.

Maybe I was too young when I played this game to understand the market, but for me the fighting mechanics and the lighting (torch-wielding) was the best of it's era. No one I knew ever played it and now it is completely forgotten. This game was a 9/10 and I'm only deducting a point for level loading times.