This game has uninteresting combat, significant flaws in the gameplay and is somewhat boring.
User Rating: 6 | Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader PC
I have played almost all of Blask Isle's games and have loved most of them. Thus, I automatically put Lionheart on my preorder list and played it when I got it. What a disappointment. The combat in the game is rather dull being basically about button mashing. Most isometric games allow you to pause the game and direct your characters. Not in this game. When you pause it, you are limited in what you can tell you character to do and targetting enemies in real time is not very easy. If you play a magic user, be wary. You have an amount of mana that you can use and there's no way to replenish it quickly without buying a potion (which is difficult early on with limited money). There is no way to rest and recuperate. If you run out of mana, you literally have to let your character sit there and slowly regenerate as you go make yourself a sandwich or something. The characters weren't terrible as some other reviewers have said. The painted backgrounds are reasonably good and worhty of the game. The only interesting novelty I found in the game was the existence of hidden rooms and doors which often required a high level of skill to find. They are hidden very well so unless your skill actually allows you to see them, you wouldn't know they were they. It's a playable game if you're a big fan of the genre, but nothing to write home about.
