Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

 PlayStation 4
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2.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
  3. Negative: 14 out of 18
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  1. Zelldincht90
    Jun 24, 2021
    0
    Non merita la pioggia di 0 che sta ricevendo. Sicuramente il combat system è migliorabile, ma l'avventura è intrigrante, le missioni bilanciate e sfidanti. La migliore esperienza si ottiene in cooperativo. A tal proposito, ottima la gestione online/offline in caso di gioco cooperativo o singolo.
  2. scatterbrain73
    Jun 24, 2021
    1
    Combat is clunky and repetitive, parrying is garbage, enemies constantly glitch around the arena, difficulty scaling is unbalanced, and the graphics look like a free-to-play game. After 3 hours the game crashed at the start of a boss fight, making me lose all the loot I collected for that run. I have no desire to pick it back up. I give it 1/5 because no microtransactions.
  3. OldAndCynical
    Jul 31, 2022
    2
    I'm fan of D&D and the heroes this game portrays. Sadly, the game itself turned out to be very poor indeed. Despite getting over 16BG of updates since launch, the game still looks very poor and has poor framerate, on PS4Pro.
    Worse still is the combat, that is very cumbersome and clumsy affair. Made even worse by how slowly the hero turns about. You see, the hero has to face the direction    I'm fan of D&D and the heroes this game portrays. Sadly, the game itself turned out to be very poor indeed. Despite getting over 16BG of updates since launch, the game still looks very poor and has poor framerate, on PS4Pro.
    Worse still is the combat, that is very cumbersome and clumsy affair. Made even worse by how slowly the hero turns about. You see, the hero has to face the direction he wishes to strike, so you have to keep turning the hero, in this painfully slow fashion, so as to be able to hit your target. Needless to say, the enemies turn and caper around lot faster than you, and have no trouble hitting you. Sure, there is target lock, but it does not really function all that well.
    Now I could stomach all this, if the game let me level up and loot stuff like your usual action RPGs. For while the visuals aren't that great, the level design seems ok, so I could have spent some nice days grinding the levels.
    But I won't be doing that, because in this game, you have to reach the end of level before you can travel back to base and save your loot and progress. So, if you find the level too hard, or do not have time to play to the end, you will lose all your progress and loot by quitting half way. Had the game let me keep loot and all when returning to camp, I could have happily grinded parts of levels for fun, which would have saved the game from being thrown into a dumpster. But with this system where you have to complete level in order to gain the loot and XP from it? Nah. Just too much work and too little fun, especially when the combat is so very, painfully poor affair.
    All in all, this is definitely the worst action RPG I have ever wasted time on. I hope the developers never attempt to make another game.    … Expand
  4. PenisPickles69
    Jul 10, 2021
    0
    Wow... You know how everybody used to say Balan Wonderworld was the worst game of 2021 so far? Well I can honestly say this game is even worse than Balan Wonderworld in literally every way!
    The only positive thing about this game, is the good-looking cinematic cutscenes filled with weird but amusing dances, but Balan Wonderworld does even that better than this sorry pathetic excuse for a    Wow... You know how everybody used to say Balan Wonderworld was the worst game of 2021 so far? Well I can honestly say this game is even worse than Balan Wonderworld in literally every way!
    The only positive thing about this game, is the good-looking cinematic cutscenes filled with weird but amusing dances, but Balan Wonderworld does even that better than this sorry pathetic excuse for a D&D game!

    Back in the day, before video games were a thing, everybody used to play Dungeons & Dragons passionately the same way gamers do with video games today, and back then all you had was a set of dice, a few plastic figures and a piece of cardboard. Video games were meant to be the future of fantasy role playing games, but in this case, D&D Dark Alliance was a STEP BACK in evolution! You're far better off playing real D&D with dice, plastic and cardboard! If there ever existed a D&D Tiger handheld game, I bet even that would be better than D&D Dark Alliance.    … Expand
  5. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 30, 2021
    7
    Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance
    a Mind of its own
    Dark Alliance is an 8 hour long 3rdperson dungeon crawler that can be layed both solo as well as online with up to 4 players, hre you choose one of 4 classes that can be changed in between every mission… youll be running through thse dungeons, taking down enmies, and every once in a while you will gt the coice, set up camp here and    Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance
    a Mind of its own
    Dark Alliance is an 8 hour long 3rdperson dungeon crawler that can be layed both solo as well as online with up to 4 players, hre you choose one of 4 classes that can be changed in between every mission… youll be running through thse dungeons, taking down enmies, and every once in a while you will gt the coice, set up camp here and regain all ehalth and consumables… and if you die this will be your spawn point, butif you decline to set up camp, the rarity of the loot in this dungeon increases… really having you carfully test your skill and confidence… I played with the more quick bladed assassin as well as the archer, going back and forth each mission so that I didn’t get bred of this game, and I feel this is the best way to play through dark alliance because pof how repettitve it ultimately is, from start to finish its all the same, do this 15- 20 minute long mission, finding chests, defeating enemies if you so choose, to get tp that levels boss and take it down… I was havig an absolte blast most of the time… there are definitely some challenging momnts here, especially from a ouple of its bosses.. and by I couple, I literally mean a couple as for the most part, the ai in dark alliance is awful, they aren’t alive ready foraction, they stand there, waiting to be triggered, which can lead to tons of lack luster fights.. even some bosses will just stand there to die, putting up no fight playing solo… gameplay wise though the combat can be thrilling with each charater feeling vastly different, but my biggest announce with the gameplay is that at least on the playstation 5, the game seemed to have a mind of its own, input combat commands by itself when id try to run or even mid battle… at the nd of each mission youll be given your loot and this is another issue I have with this game.. the loot is just awful here.. ypou don’t get a feeling of what cool item did I escape with, all of it is lack luster and lame, really killing incentive to explore, I was just rushing through these dungeons slaying these brain dead bosses, with only 2 or 3 really fighting back and giving me a challenge…
    Overall, I enjoyed Dark alliance, is it game of the year contender? Not even close, but its nowhere near as bad as most are making it seem, its worth running through and playing by yourself or with friends, but there sadly is no life, in the form of content or loot to keep you playing beyond the final boss…
    I give Dungeons and Dragons Dark alliance
    a 6.5/10    … Expand
  6. MGSasf
    Jun 27, 2021
    0
    It's another broken game release that deserves a class action lawsuit. Just take a hard pass on purchase.
  7. Daguini5464
    Jul 5, 2021
    0
    This game is absolute trash online or off. Don't buy it I won't down load it if it comes out free. Patch update made it worse and there havnt been any since. Wizards of the coast failed miserably on this one.
  8. Tomplexthis
    Nov 19, 2022
    1
    How does this trash even get past Q and A? it doesnt even function as an actual game. i bought it to play with friends, turns out, the more players, the worse the game gets, it falls apart at the seems. the archer has no animations, the enemies have no ai, its just trash, unless you play as drizzt, maybe it could be fine. but no. this game has what players wanted, but it doesnt haveHow does this trash even get past Q and A? it doesnt even function as an actual game. i bought it to play with friends, turns out, the more players, the worse the game gets, it falls apart at the seems. the archer has no animations, the enemies have no ai, its just trash, unless you play as drizzt, maybe it could be fine. but no. this game has what players wanted, but it doesnt have competent Developers.… Expand
  9. Ripslash
    Jan 6, 2023
    1
    Uninspired gameplay and story. Feels like they thought us sheeple would love it simply because they used nostalgic characters.

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  1. CGMagazine
    Jun 25, 2021
    65
    Dark Alliance lacks compelling narrative and gameplay variety, despite being steeped in lore from its source material.
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