If you loved Diablo, then Nox is definitely for you.
You start of the game as Jack (default name, you can change it) and have a choice of becoming one of three professions. You can be a conjurer, a wizard, or a warrior. Each profession is out to stop the evil necromancer that has recently returned to wreak havoc on the land.
The conjurer doesn't actually conjure much, but what he can do is charm various enemies. Once you've charmed an enemy you can set him to do one of several things. You can set him to escort you, this means he will attack anything that gets near you. You can set him to hunt, this means he'll go out and find something to kill. You can set him to guard, this means he'll sit a guard a certain spot until he dies or you tell him otherwise. You can banish him, this kills him. In order to charm an enemy you must have his scroll. Each enemy throughout the game has a creature scroll, some are easier to get than others. Most of the time you'll find these creature scrolls scattered throughout the area in treasure chests, but you can get some from shop keepers as well. To get spells with this character you must buy or find spell books
The wizard gets various attack spells and hardly any hp at all. Normally about 3 hits and you're dead. To counter this you get a force field spell that makes it so no one hit can kill you, and it lasts through several hits. This means even if you have one hit point you cannot die as long as the force field is up, but once it's broken you better run. You also get spells like magic missile, lightning, and fireball. Scattered around the realm are "mana stones" these stones hold the power of mana and by moving next to them you can recharge your mana. Each mana stone only holds so much mana and must recharge once you taken it all. As with the conjurer to get spells you must find or buy spell books. Probably the wizard's most powerful spell is invisiblity. I found myself using this all the time because once you get into the game a ways there is no way a wizard can kill all those enemies without running out of mana.
The warrior get various attack skills. He gets no mana and a whole bunch of hp. For the warrior to get skills you must level, he gets a new skill ever time he levels. To make up for his lack of magic the warrior can use the most powerful weapons. While the wizard and the conjurer are limited to staves (the conjurer can use staves and bows) the warrior can use swords, spears, axes, etc. The warrior also gets by far the best selection of armor.
After picking your profession the airship captain comes and tells you what to do. The airship captain is the person who takes you to all the different quests you'll be doing. Each profession has a different first quest, then after that they meet up. Each of the first quests have many signs along the way that teach you how to use your spells, skills, and weapons.
You can get many items, but not many results from them. You can get hp restore potions and mana restore potions. Then you can get apples, steaks, cider, and other things all of which restore various amounts of hp. You can also get things like cure poison potions and mushrooms (which also cure poison but leave you walking funny for a while) Along your quest to defeat the necromancer you'll find many hidden items, spell books, weapons, and creature scrolls. This game has quite a lot of hidden stuff. The game also have many traps, sometimes when in caves the floors will fall out from under you, but if you look close enough you can see the cracks where the floor will fall through.
The fights are much like diablo, or the legend of mana. They're different for an rpg. When you run into an enemy the game doesn't go into a seperate fighting screen. The game just keeps going and you have to kill it any way you can. You can target any enemy at any time and they can all target you.
The graphics are pretty good in this game. I especially like the lighting. When you cast a fireball the whole room lights up and when that fireball hits its target, or a wall, it explodes into many sparks.
The control takes a bit of getting used to but it's not that bad once you've got it down. There are many keyboard shortcuts for using items that I found to be very helpful.
I recommend this game if you like the legend of mana or the diablo series. Obviously the story is different, but the general game play is about the same. I had no problems running this game on my system, but I hear a lot of people do so you'll want to watch out for that. I should also mention that this game does have a multi player mode which can be pretty fun.