The Dark Eye: Demonicon

Despite its issues, The Dark Eye: Demonicon remains a fun adventure that, while lacking polish, is an enjoyable journey through The Dark Eye setting.

Demonicon is ugly, awkward, and unknown, but it's still an average action RPG.

The new action-RPG takes place in the classic Dark-Eye-Setting. The story is one of the best features in the game. Fans of the franchise will experience much lore. Especially the voice-acting guarantees a nice atmosphere. Unfortunately the gameplay itself and the overall presentation is not satisfying that much. Poor textures and lack of good animations comes along with a combat-system, that isn’t quite challenging.

An engaging story and some good core mechanics hampered by some ugly design and repetitive, simplistic combat. [Jan 2014, p.66]

An interesting story brought low by rote combat and a rather uninspiring graphics engine. [December 2013, p.92]

Maybe hardcore Dark Eye fans will appreciate the lore and its place in the universe, but on its own it’s not a fantastic story, and it’s not a well-designed game either.

In times of The Witcher or Dark Souls this is hard to bear. The dialogue is below daily soap standards, the fighting system as superficial as any, visuals are outdated. This is gruesome.

For me, this is a good game with a good storyline. Not enough weapons, armor. So-so pumping. Graphics - average. Beautiful in the game only the plot, it makes the game playful and interesting.

Story 65% - the bastard of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic & Baldur's Gate 2. Only 2 different main endings, the path may differ. No F button. World Building and Design 45% - lacking areas, boring, generic medieval, though bugless, barely any NPCs around, underpopulated areas. Quests 45% - short and boring quests, meaningless in regard of the main story, wasted a lot of potential. Gameplay Mechanics 65% - combat is good, bugless. Bosses show caring, good design, gotta use your brain. Some puzzles lack the clues. Character Building 70% - good for such a Hack&Slash adventure RPG. Can effect some choices and looting. Nothing radical. Time and Replayability 55% - got 22 Hours carefully watching all scenes, pondering dialogue choices, being as thorough as possible, relaxed. Graphics 70% - decent, considering its age and budget. Liked the daytime shadows. Textures are sometimes ugly. Music and Sound 75% - surprisingly epic, sometimes sounds like Two Steps from Hell. Not enough soundtrack variety though. Effects are okay. 65% - it's an okay oneshot but don't expect anything great. I guess if you know the world of The Dark Eye (Das Schwarze Auge) you'll appreciate the lore, story and characters more.

First impression was like I was playing a game in 2007 year :-) Oldy graphics, bad saving system, but I like RPG and plot and char system looks rather nice.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

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