Разработчик: Noumena Studios
Описание
The Dark Eye - Demonicon tells the tragic story of a brother and sister who become pawns of sinister forces in a world of cruelty and depravity. In this bleak yet magical world, their affection is both a blessing and a curse. Both are constantly threatened by mortal danger and demonic temptation, and must find a way through their tortured lives by facing serious moral decisions. Their common destiny will determine that of the entire continent, and will be decided by the choices they make. Hordes of fiends block their way to freedom and peace, and only through battle and magic they will truly become free of the darkness.
- A third-person action-RPG featuring brutal melee attack combos and dazzling magic spells
- Powerful storytelling with an elaborate narrative rich with twists, as well as believable conflicts and ethical decision-making opportunities
- Action-packed battles, where pin-point timing and clever tactics play important roles
- Unique magic system: a dark talent grants the player devastating mystical powers and changes his physical appearance
- Comprehensive crafting system allows for creation of potions, poisoned blades and enchanted armor
- State-of-the-art 3D visuals using the powerful Havok Vision engine
- A richly detailed game world embedded in the extensive fantasy world of The Dark Eye
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, german, korean, russian
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP SP3 (32bit), Windows Vista / 7 / 8
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual-core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 512MB VRAM and Shader Model 4.0 support. ATI/AMD Radeon 3800 series and higher, NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT and higher
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
- OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 (64bit)
- Processor: 3 GHz Quad-core
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 1GB VRAM and Shader Model 5.0 support
- Additional Notes: Best played with Xbox 360® controller for Windows
Отзывы пользователей
Well, this was actuaclly quite nice. A grimm power fantasy that I love, too bad not enoughwoamn in sexy clothes and no sex scenes(
euro jank in its finest
Decent game for cheap
The writing is top-shelf. It was so good I had to look up the writers in the credits and look at their other work, unfortunately I could only find one of them Daniel Hebler who wrote some books in the Dark Eye setting. There are choices and plothooks here you could easily see in the best Bioware games, and some unhinged and assholish behaviour the Hero of Fereldan would be proud of. In this game you can -
- mock starving refugees and eat a big juicy apple in front of them.
- flirt with a sluttily dressed necromancer right by the charred body of a child you let a demon kill.
- argue with an academic over the ethics of cutting down a tree that gives the baby children of prostitutes nightmares. He is pro-nightmare.
One part of narrative where it exceeds Bioware is that there is no objectively good choice like saving both the Geth and the Quarians.
There's alot more and it is special and janky. I would recommend to make the gameplay as smooth as possible to invest in the Demonic Aura (best spell) and Ice Lance spells, these speed you up and freeze enemies to build your combo on them, that's the only way to regain magic and combat is a slog without them. Combo is lost by taking any hit and depletes very quickly, that's why throwing weapons are mandatory to keep your chain of hits up. Also the game saves after every battle so what you can do is load a save file right there and then and your health will be back to full. That will let you save potions for the tough encounters. Toxic Breath is a great choice for stunlocking enemies and you can steer it.
Very good game, I don't know how I missed this one back in the day, it has the vibes of Dragon age 1 and 2
And much much better than Dragon Age The: Shitguard
Now I want a hot sister too!
7/10
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I love my sister
And she loves me too
First up, I got this working in Win 11 by making a shortcut to the DemoniconR.exe file, setting it to Win 8 compatiblity and run as administrator. Works fine.
This is a RPG with jank of the highest order. Cost me a couple of quid on sale (but then so did the Witcher 2). It's not as good as the Witcher 2, more on the "Bound by Flame" level in terms of graphics, writing and feel. The voice acting is passable (just) and the combat is ... well it's there.
There's the odd bit of decision making to keep things interesting. A couple of hours in - and I'll see this one through. Recommended to play with a controller and because I like RPG's - this isn't one of the better ones though.
Game does not work in windows 11 kalypso launcher just fails to launch game. No issues on steam deck....they not even blood related.
Euro Jank is not unfair, but it is quality Euro jank. I enjoyed it. Combat works, character development is pretty good. Writing is done pretty well for what it is. I have played the other Dark Eye PC games, and this is barely recognizable as Dark Eye, but it is there in lore and mechanics.
I think it is entertaining enough to spend a few bucks on.
7.2 hours for chapter 1
5.3 hours for chapter 2
3.3 hours for chapter 3
3.2 hours for chapter 4
.5 hours for chapter 5
its not a bad game clunky combat with most normal battles being button mashing. weird story.
for those concerned about checkpoint saves. they can easily be triggered by entering or leaving the city
not a hard game
I'd usually forgive the janky combat, the average story, the crude animations and the thousand-yard stare characters; this is a small budget game after all. But to me, Demonicon commits a cardinal sin when it comes to RPGs: it is not replayable. These are the reasons why:
- No character builds: the main character can only use one handed weapons (edged and blunt) with few differences between them. And if you want to play as a mage, you can only choose from 4 spells and, since you need to use weapons to regenerate mana, are forced to engage in melee combat anyway.
- Extremely linear: all main story missions must be done in an exact order, without deviation. And since there are no side missions (aside from some notice board kill/fetch quests), all you do is talk to an NPC, follow the compass to the objective, complete some puzzle, get some object and/or kill some enemies, return to the NPC, get some story beats, move to the next objective, rinse and repeat.
- Meaningless choices: you have plenty of opportunities to choose if you spare or kill someone, if you join this or that faction, if you support this or that person. But it is all for nothing, because the outcome, aside from some flavor narration, is always the same: you get what is needed to move the plot forward. Even the final choice, in which one of the outcomes is locked behind a skill check, is totally meaningless, since the final cutscene plays exactly the same, with minimal variation.
By the way, why did the devs choose some funky songs (with horn sections and everything) to play during the end credits of a medieval dark fantasy game? Maybe the most baffling end credits song choice since that rap on Rogue Warrior.
Essentially an edgy knock-off of Dragon Age 2. Lots of fun all the same.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Noumena Studios |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 69% положительных (206) |