Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms

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7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 58 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 58
  3. Negative: 11 out of 58
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  1. Fuz
    Sep 16, 2015
    7
    Good game with some nice ideas and a few major flaws.
    In Heretic Kingdoms you take the control of the Devourer: a demon that can eat people's souls and use them as puppets. It's an ARPG in the Diablo style but, due to the Devourer's power, you'll control a variety of different characters instead of a single one. This makes the game feel fresh and interesting.
    Too bad the game has some    Good game with some nice ideas and a few major flaws.
    In Heretic Kingdoms you take the control of the Devourer: a demon that can eat people's souls and use them as puppets. It's an ARPG in the Diablo style but, due to the Devourer's power, you'll control a variety of different characters instead of a single one. This makes the game feel fresh and interesting.
    Too bad the game has some big flaws:
    Loading screen are insanely long and there are quite a lot. There's a loading screen even for when you
    want to change the party formation - you can have only 3 characters in your party plus the devourer - which made me almost never try new characters combination and killing one of the best characteristics of the game. You can't even equip or level up the inactive characters without traveling to the character select room (which is pointless also because it's just a room with the "puppets" and a single vendor, there was really no need to have it), leading to a very cluttered inventory. It also kills exploration. You will really spend a insane amount of time on loading screens, and you will think twice about loading the game if you don't have a lot of free time on your hands.
    Controls are bad. Really bad. They're unresponsive, the character often stops insted of attacking or just moves away, right mouse button is useless and the feeling is generally very very clunky. The combat feels often like a chore and it's not too funny.
    Crafting is very tedious and pointlessly time consuming due to the badly readable interface for it. Absolutely pointless, also because you can never craft items better than what you find.

    Now for the good part of it... there are some really good ideas in this. The party system is very interesting and adds something new to a overused genre. The world is beautiful and engaging, and makes you want to know more about it. The graphics are quite good: clean, readable, colorful, stylish.
    The musics are absolutely fantastic. My favourite part of the game. They have a sort of arabic influence and are really, really astonishing and never bore the player.

    All in all, a pretty decent game that gets pulled down by a few inexplicable flaws.    … Expand
  2. noisnam
    Nov 15, 2014
    9
    diablo3 pretty much kill all my desire to play Arpg since i thought nothing new is gonna to bring in to the genre, but this game tells me different. it allows you switch between ghost world and real world. and the team making is also very refreshing. story is amazing. blizzard developer should play this game and see wtf they did wrong with diablo.

    wish this game can do well, because    diablo3 pretty much kill all my desire to play Arpg since i thought nothing new is gonna to bring in to the genre, but this game tells me different. it allows you switch between ghost world and real world. and the team making is also very refreshing. story is amazing. blizzard developer should play this game and see wtf they did wrong with diablo.

    wish this game can do well, because gaming industry seems so brain dead now.    … Expand
  3. Alarik
    Nov 28, 2014
    9
    A good surprise for me. Nice graphics, good musics and voice acting. Interesting story for an ARPG and a lots of characters to incarnate .You should give it a try.
  4. S_lution
    Nov 24, 2014
    10
    I played Diablo, Diablo 2 and tried Diablo 3 but quit that a few weeks in. I love Shadows for its story and its fresh approach. It's finally something different in a genre that kept repeating itself.
  5. Nickname69
    Nov 21, 2014
    10
    quelle surprise! Like this game very much. Played it now for about 6 hrs. Exciting story, nice graphics, good voice actors and smooth ARPG gameplay = great game!
  6. keeper3009
    Nov 21, 2014
    10
    Finally a new great ARPG - great idea with the episodes character to bring lots of game hours in various books. Even now with book 1 I have hours of hours with great game Play.
    Even now I´m looking Forward to book 2.....
  7. coolaussiebart
    Jun 17, 2015
    0
    This game is **** makes me feel funny I have epilepsy this game is bad I hate the game makes me shake my eyes go funny to never download if you have epilepsy
  8. SanctumRevel
    Dec 1, 2014
    5
    It s rare nowdays for game like this one to be seen and played good story and combat graphics ok descent bad : voice cast is ludicrus mediocre at best lifelless npc or interactions even at low settings lagg and sttuter is almost constand frustrating at some points unless patches or coming it s best left alone
  9. dave5201
    Dec 2, 2014
    0
    Pros and Cons:
    Cons: The combat is clunky.. it does not fell responsive like d3 and I mean its about the same price...
    You start at lvl 19? and stats are alredy chosen for you
    You fell weak right at the start of the game
    The big flaw is controls are HORRIBLE!!!
    Pros: I like the graphics and thats it... Go buy a real action rpg like diablo 3 they have it at 40$ with the expanssion...
  10. Mistok
    Jan 3, 2015
    10
    Ok I ll start by saying this game made me create an account here to rate and review it thats how much I liked it and want to support it any way I can. I am a very hard to please gamer especially with single player games these days I think most suck.

    But Heretic Kingdoms is very very good. Interesting story check. Immersive gameplay check. Cool graphicks check. New and innovative    Ok I ll start by saying this game made me create an account here to rate and review it thats how much I liked it and want to support it any way I can. I am a very hard to please gamer especially with single player games these days I think most suck.

    But Heretic Kingdoms is very very good. Interesting story check. Immersive gameplay check. Cool graphicks check. New and innovative features unlike any arpg before check.
    It also includes an amazing soundtrack to wrap things up and the dialogue and voice acting is immersive but also fun.

    10/10 would recommend to everybody. Arpg fans and non arpg fans.

    I haven't finished the game yet. I am halfway through chapter 2 but I am already looking forward to replaying it with the other characters. And I am really exited that there is book 2 and 3 coming!

    Ok for negatives I can think of 1 thing that kinda bothered me that there is no respec. Not even confirmation when you pick skills to level up. But I read a dev post somewhere that respec is coming so its all good.    … Expand

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74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Games.cz
    Mar 19, 2015
    70
    Heretic Kingdoms saga returns in dignified style. Too bad that a good atmosphere, great dialogue and the alternating of action heroes is corrupted by some technical difficulties in the fight and backlogs in the optimization and user interface.
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  2. IGN Spain
    Mar 14, 2015
    70
    A game that may be too classic and entertaining, but the joy won't last for long due to its poor pacing.
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  3. Hobby Consolas
    Mar 8, 2015
    78
    A classic RPG, well-executed, with an intense storyline and good graphics. It has some bugs, needs more variety of loot items and enemies, but it's an interesting Diablo III alternative.
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