Elaria: The Corrupted Throne

This is a super fun little arpg where you arise as an amnesiac skeleton and have to figure out who you are. The controls are a little different to what i'm used to with other arpgs but i like that as it makes me think. There is lots of dungeon delving with a nice easy to find green lantern outside each dungeon that allows you to reset for 1000 ingame currency and redo for more loot/xp. The developer is easy to contact if any problems arise and quick to correct said problems. If you get bored of dungeon delving there's an ingame card game called Adoh to while away your hours having fun. Adoh is super easy to pick up and collecting all 100 cards will satisfy your completionist brain and then some :) If i had one quibble it would be that there is no overworld map option or quest markers on the minimap in the left corner.

I have had this game on my wishlist for a long time now and was excited to finally play it when i bought the game not long ago. The premise sounds fun and the intro to the game is well organised but there are alot of problems with this game. Most of them are small and honestly dont impact my experience at all, for instance when you go to open a loot chest/ talk to someone you click on the object to interact with it, but your character does not move into range of the object if he cant reach it so even though the prompt is there it does not activate until you manually move your character closer to the entity where it will then activate. There are other small problems but like i said they really wern't enough to dissuade me because i was having fun. But there are three big problems i have encountered which have really ruined the experience for me. First one is that unlocking abilities is not really explained. Each weapon changes the four abilities you have access to and I will admit alo...

What a piece of ****! Intro has no sense of direction, no tutorial, controls suck, keep dieing... then die more at the resurrection spot. Steaming pile of ****.

The game is rough around the edges, ui issues make it difficult to get all the info on things and the auto attack function is a bit tedious to engage with, otherwise the game is very fluid you never feel like your being constrained (outside debuffs), and the pathing is pretty good. the correlation of gaining new items or stats is quickly visible in combat. the open world nature is very there but that does come with a bit of a lack of direction. overall a fun game worth playing to get that extra rpg adventure in.