In a world where unacceptable games pass Steam Greenlight, is Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade. A dreadful game that needs a completeIn a world where unacceptable games pass Steam Greenlight, is Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade. A dreadful game that needs a complete remake. It’s horrible.
Unforgiving Trials is developed by Amaterasu Software, and it sure is amateur… On their Twitter bio they state that their company is a 4-man team, while on the Steam store it’s a 5-man team. Already starting well, huh? They are set in the Republic of Croatia, so we’ll cut them some slack.
In the game, you start off in an inn with a broad selection of characters which have unique abilities and skills. Obviously, they include archer, wizard, paladin, knight and a whole host of interesting ones such as a thief, or a blood mage. Each character has their advantages and disadvantages and you’ll need to play around to create a balanced team.
The goal of Unforgiving Trials is to clear the world of an eternal darkness full of monstrosity. Like the game. It’s a monstrosity. You’ll continually head east after fighting multiple waves of enemies, then you’ll get time to heal and buy potions and you’ll repeat the process. That is the entire game.
It’s rinse and repeat. There’s probably a story at the end of it somewhere, but no one will make it with the repetitive battles, boring gameplay and a story which doesn’t grab you.
In terms of playing the game, I came across so many errors which just completely ruined the experience, while others just made me laugh at Amaterasu Software.
While in the inn, I spoke to everyone and came across way too many spelling mistakes and sentences that didn’t make sense as they missed words out. Although this isn’t usually a primary problem, but due to the lack of gameplay they should probably proof read the base of the game.
The combat is not interesting as it doesn’t add anything fun, it’s just the standard RPG combat where you’ll select the attack, then the enemy and wait for it. This is what you’ll be doing for the entire game aside from picking new party members and buying potions. I was personally bored after the 3rd battle but urged myself through the game to find out it’s still the same old useless junk.
While playing, the music will decide it wants to mute itself and the game will go completely dead silent, and then you’ll hear attack sound effects for five minutes straight before the music remembers that it’s not playing and decides to kick in again. It really dulled the experience because the music isn’t bad, and sort of fits the RPG theme, but the game does not play well in silence.
In terms of graphics, it looks like a simple RPG Maker job, and that’s fine if you want to make a game in that, but when going into battle the monsters fought will look entirely different to the rest of the game as-if they’ve ripped them out of a nicer-looking game and plonked them into this.
Sometimes the controls like to play up and not do what you want, you may sometimes find yourself alternating between mouse and keyboard to achieve what you want. But it’s fairly smooth.
Overall, this game is extremely repetitive, full of errors and it’s in no way fun. After 2 battles you’ll realise the entire game is a grind for achieving nothing. The only decent thing about the game is the nice selection of characters you can choose from.
2/10… Expand
