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Realm of Rikonia
Rikonian Revuze
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Reviewed By: Lord High Rikonian ( 11/12/2009 7:07:18 PM)
Overall Rating: 2.00 severed limbs
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Review: Viking: Battle For Asgard has a some good stuff going for it. It has pretty good graphics, and the characters' movements are fairly realistically rendered. But Skarin, the Viking you play as, is a bit of a butisface, who looks like Beuwulf got beat with the unsettlingly-weird-looking-stick in the Uncanny Valley. But the rest of the graphics are pretty good.
However, the controls are very weak. There's a strong attack button that works fairly well, but the fast attack is somewhat buggy, sometimes leaving you briefly incapacitated. This pretty much defeats the purpose of a speed attack button.
Combat is very repetitive. Maybe a couple quick attacks, then a hard or two. However, there is some fun to combat. You can slice limbs off during the fight, and then hit X one more time for a brutal flourish attack that either runs the foe through, chops off the remaining limbs and the head, or runs the enemy through and then chops off the remaining limbs and the head. Doing this gets you orbs that restore your magic power and sometimes your HP. However the game seems to like denying you the green HP-boosting orbs when you really need them. It also likes putting you up against several foes at once, with no backup.
Like Circle of Doom, this game makes some half-hearted (probably because some viking cut it in half with his sword) attempts at including RPG elements, but they just serve to annoy. There is no levelling system. You just buy all your advancements at shops.
You can learn special moves at an arena (by purchasing them from some dead Viking who bitches about not getting to hang out in Valhalla because some loser mortal wants to learn a jumping sword attack). The special moves do add some variety to combat, but they are not very useful in mob fights, because the good ones all move you forward (further into the mob) so now you're out of special move tokens and surrounded by foes all wailing on you. If Skarin were a bit more agile this would be fun.
But he is a sluggish and clumsy avatar compared to other faster video game characters, such as Leinhart, the chick from Jade Empire, Darth Revan, the Neravarine, Mario, the guy from GTA 4, the guy from GTA 3 and 2, and the guy from Grand Theft Personal Mobility Scooter.
Playing Advice: I can't really recommend this game. Sometimes a game like this is a quality sleeper that went under everyone's radar. This game, however, was deservedly unnoticed. It's highly repetitive, and I got bored with it after just a couple days.
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