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Originally Posted by Domi_Ash  I can say that watching my husband play the game is fascinating - there are some great dialogues and beautiful area artwork. The story is wonderful, the characters interesting....
But I tried playing it myself, and ye gods, how are you supposed to control the thing at all? You need to press that button to walk this way, and another button to walk that way... and you need to keep *moving* while attacking or something, otherwise you just hit air.... And ye gods, I keep pressing that 'walk forward' button in combat, and nobody is moving anywhere anyways. Except for the opponents who are gliding happily in all directions with the ease that makes my stumbling character incredibly jelouse. I am supposed to be the best student in the school? HA! Just wait till I can make it around the corner of the fence with all my amazing dexterity! Then I am going to... er... flip in place? Why did I do that? Aha, I pressed it twice. Now, what are those dark blue... OUCH! YAKES! Oh, f*** why can't I just select the character to attack and let my gal do the job? *She* is the martial artist after all.
And when I see the battles my hubby is doing in the game a bit later, with tons and tons of opponents spawning just as the other ones are defeated and your character is barely alive, and your styles have to be switched with the *number pad* and you can't fix whichever style you want as a default, and the pause is "P", not the scrollbar like in all other Bio/Obsidian games.... In other owrds, Oh. My. God. I don't think I will ever going to be able to play it on my own 
And get this - a female PC does not have any designated romance for herself. She has to get the male PC's leavings. Pfft.
At any rate - a great game to 'watch' if you are not the twitch game person. But playing it... far too complicated for someone like me, who never played anything of the kind. |
Sky is the designated romance for female players.. (it just so happens that he is also a "switch hitter" for males.) Just as Sky is a male romance option for males, the princess is a female romance option for females. Frankly though, the "romance" for ANY character is quite weak in plot development.. In fact it was *very* odd that my evil furious ming was committing all of these atrocities through out the game - all the while with Dawn Star as a love interest and physically present to object (and strongly object) to my actions.. and she still wants to be with me. Perhaps she has low self esteem and wants to make me a better person
, well it didn't turn out that way - instead I killed her after bumping nasties
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As far as the controls are concerned - basic movement you can get with a little practice. However the more involved actions.. just plain nutty. I'm sure its better though with a macro capable game keypad, but even then it would require about 30 minutes of programming to get all the keys and actions to do what you want - and several hours to "train" yourself to use those keys without to much thought. I'm not sure I have the tolerance for it.
