The Legend of Alon D'ar Updated Preview
We take a look at the latest playable build of the new RPG from Stormfront Studios and Ubi Soft.
The development team at Stormfront Studios has taken a somewhat different approach in creating one of the latest PlayStation 2 RPGs, The Legend of Alon D'ar. While the execution and progression of the story will seem familiar to any console RPG fan, the character building in The Legend of Alon D'ar is almost completely open-ended, letting you decide which skills to enhance your character with. The game also features an interesting battle system that benefits those who take the time to learn about enemies and their weaknesses against specific types of weapons.
Alon D'ar begins with a CG introduction of the main character, Jarik, as he dreams of an incredibly evil being that has recently hatched from a cocoon. You quickly learn that this being has been released so that he can take over the world. Jarik wakes shortly thereafter and wanders outside of his dwelling to find his town under attack from the Dagani, a race of amphibian-like warriors. However, Jarik's encounter with one of these warriors reveals that they may have no involvement in the raid at all, so after the battle, Jarik sets out on a journey to solve the mystery behind the attack and to prevent his people from going to war with the Dagani.
Before leaving the village to explore the countryside, you'll have an opportunity to become familiar with some of the basic elements of gameplay in Alon D'ar. One such element you encounter early on is the side quest, such as when one of the townspeople asks you to find five drinking horns hidden in different locations around the village. Of course, you can completely ignore the request and simply head out of the village, but it's an easy way to earn some gold without engaging enemies. Most of the early side quests involve characters that have lost items--such as the silver acorn hunt--but some are actually spread out over vast portions of the landscape, so you'll be able to undertake other important tasks while attempting to complete the side quest.
If you look around certain parts of Jarik's village, you'll probably notice some of the plants growing in the area. Another resident of the village explains that Jarik can actually use some of these plants--or at least those that grow directly next to rocks--to heal himself and that these plants can actually grow back after time. A source of health that renews itself sounds great, but in fact it takes an incredible amount of time for these plants to regenerate, and generally, your inventory of healing plants is depleted within moments of your first battle with two or more enemies. Fortunately, you can exchange the plants for stronger healing potions, but to do so, you have to constantly travel back and forth from the village--it's not difficult, but it takes some time.
Your last task in the village is to seek combat training. In most RPGs combat training might seem rather pointless, but that's certainly not the case with The Legend of Alon D'ar.
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- GameSpot Score3.5bad
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- Ubisoft
- Stormfront Studios
- Action Role-Playing
- Release: Dec 4, 2001
- ESRB: Teen
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