Разработчик: Amaranth Games, LLC
Описание
Mel has gone into hiding after she discovers she can use magic. To make matters worse, wicked creatures called Darklings keep popping up, convinced that Mel is the prophesied one who will build a dark empire for them.
Edward, the ousted heir to the throne of Thais, who is also Mel’s best friend, eventually finds her hiding in the village of Harakauna. To her dismay, he’s brought along two professors from a prestigious magical school called Shadwood Academy. Will they convince Mel to go to a school where she can learn to control her powers?
In this final installment of the Orbs of Magic series, Te'ijal, Galahad, Edward, Stella, and Mel come together to stop the Darkthrop Prophecy from occurring. Will they succeed?
Features:
- HUMOR. Lots of it. Humor is the core of Aveyond. You will laugh... or else!
- Massive world filled with loads of monsters, loot, and civilizations.
- Solve dozens of quests.
- Buy a dragon and fly to several lands.
- Learn spells through use of powerful staff weapons.
- Pursue true romance and marry your characters.
- Track your quests with a handy journal.
- Select the character to appear on screen - choose which hero will be leading the party.
- Play with mouse or keyboard.
- Save your game at any time.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 98 / XP / Vista / 7 (32-bit/64-bit)
- Processor: PC with 800MHz Intel® Pentium® III equivalent or higher processor
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: 1024 x 768 pixels or higher desktop resolution
- Storage: 128 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectSound-compatible sound card
Отзывы пользователей
Love this series so much. This last game is probably my favorite out of the four. I love getting to play with the two different parties and getting to see the drama from both sides. Such a wonderful way to end the series.
I JUST FINISHED ALL FOUR PARTS AND I AM SO SAD THAT IT'S OVER *crying and screaming and rolling around on the floor*
One of my favourite games!
Gameplay experience improved from the previous entries as haste boots are obtainable early on and nothing important is missable (tip: unequip edward's sword before doing the trials). I really do love the story with this series, it was a journey playing through it.
Last part of Aveyond 3, it was very well executed and story comes out full circle (I don't care what the "canon" is, thank goodness they let you pick, because Edward would not go for butterfly girl. I love Stella, but no!)
Also, this was our sweet darkling is also happy so it's a win-win.
Excellent game. Easily the best of the four game series. Edward's new sword is a great idea and a fun addition. There are many unique locations and interesting plot surprises. Maps are well done and pleasing to the eye. Game is long enough to satisfy anyone. Update: I just tried to play the 4th aveyond game "shadow of the mist" I only made it about half way and quit. Darkthrop Prophecy is far superior.
My childhood :') runs well with no bugs despite being an old game
Overall I really like 3-1 - 3-4. But I am also kinda happy that this storyline is done with. I enjoy how it ended and overall I think these games were pretty well laid out and had an engaging story.
The entire Aveyond series is wonderful well written, thought out and composed. I have completely enjoyed all of their games. This is what others in this class of games should aspire to be like.
You should play the other parts before tackling this one.
As the one before, there are improvements I liked (new characters, divided groups). But as before, your save game didn't matter that much and magic was often still very useless. Again a lot of running back and forth. Really problematic is the fact that you can miss out on a very important key approximately halfway through the game and cannot be retrieved after a certain event. Still, the story was good and the bosses were a good challenge. Good final to the series.
Aveyond 3-1,3-2,3-3, where great games but 3-4 is straight up anooying as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc.c.c.ck to play. You can get a headache from playing this game. Fc.kin full of byullshit mazes.
I really, really disliked 3-3, but this one is pretty good! Not the best in the series (still enjoyed the first game better), but a pretty good conclusion! I binged the whole series and came to a point were my frustration of not having the items from my previous saves forced me to use the goody caves. I would have loved to just have played the game as is even if it halved my levels...or even if I kept Stella's spells (you keep Mel's chicken dance one), but, alas, no such luck... SO, yeah, i "cheated" to get though...but half my hours was wondering around with characters that felt even slower than previous ones or just afk.
Anyhow, here is what i loved: the plot! even when my bf saw part of some of the side quests he enjoyed it too. I also enjoyed that, after ditching Stella in the previous game, this one gives her more light to shine one. It felt like a great surprise and a great risk. it made the end choice of who we rooted for/shipped a bit more believable instead of what 3-2 made me feel regarding what is "supposed" to be cannon(there is a clear favorite, but even the ending is pretty similar between the main 2 enough to feel like Stella wasn't a throw away character after all). I also really enjoyed the new area, however...
What I disliked aside from what's stated above; that we can't go back to the old areas at all! we are stuck in this new world. And, believe it of not, I dislike how little screen time Mel has. Even though I ADORE Stella, Mel could have had more time with Nox and Uma. They were pretty cool and I enjoyed the after credits! I, however, LOATHED not being able to go the the moo hatchery. It really made it feel like any progress made in the previous games made NO difference. Like previous games, some of the areas you do see are changed for now reason :/. Also, the only plot that affects this is the first game and the intro/beginning of the 3-2. that's it. Nothing else felt like it mattered.
In conclusion, I agree with others that the last 2 parts should have been one. The plot of the last two felt pretty short anyway. There could have been a good explanation to weaken your characters and for Stella to have to learn some spells again. How unfortunate that this part of the game made certain development choices feel lazy :/ (I even accept Edward having to use a new sword with new upgrades!) All in all, I still enjoyed the ending here! Feel free to skip 3-3(watch the beginning 5 minutes by a let's player or play through a demo), but still support this great series! Fans, thank you for supporting this team long enough for us to see more of these games. I hope there are more risks taken moving forward, but I'll happily accept this as is too! :]
Edit: I did miss a reward from a side story that kept me from opening blue and red chests...so don't be surprised if i used this excuse to play this game again (and gain more hours playing this game xD)
Tags: Topdown - RPGMaker&PartyRPG
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Aveyond series uses stock RPGMaker assets. It failed to fullscreen correctly on my monitor. Users report it is poorly balanced. Not worth the timesink.
The final chapter has best conclusion for the Aveyond Orbs of Magic series.
Aveyond 3-4: The Darkththrop Prophecy is the thrilling (or rather mildly satisfying) conclusion to the Aveyond 3 series. I don't dislike this game quite as much as 3-3 but the things I dislike are often the same type of things. I love the Aveyond Series and have played all of them. I think Aveyond 1: Rehn's Quest is stil my favorite (though sadly not available on Steam) but I've enjoyed playing all of them except 3-3 and 3-4. I still really hate that they split our Aveyond 3 into 4 separate chapters. I really feel like they could have (and should have) simply put all the games into one single game. As it currently stands you save your game at the end of each chapter for import into the next and each new chapter starts with a sort of brief recap of where the previous game ended.
One thing I really, REALLY hated was that in this chapter you once again have lost all your stuff but now you also lost all those levels you worked hard to obtain in the previous 3 chapters! In game they start out with Mel telling us she's been living in the secret viliage of Harakuna (I probably misspelled that) for a year. So, it makes no sense to me that after having gone through so much trouble to earn the gold, buy the stuff, use the stuff (which has proven time and again to be ever so useful in Mel's life) that she would basically give up everything she owns and not even own a single weapon or even basic set of armor! She also went from super buff (if you leveled even on the more conservative side or like me maxed or nearly maxed levels) to a wimpy level 1 again. Okay, I was really pissed off about all the time wasted on leveling that was simply gone now but at least that makes some sense if she's been sitting around doing nothing all day living like a lazy bum. It seems very unlikely and not well suited to fictional game life though. Then not only that but all the skills/spells learned are essentially gone too! Stella doesn't know any of her spells! I get maybe she was lazy too so no longer has the mana capacity to cast them till she levels up but she jst forgets everything she learned? I couldn't get over that one. If it were not that this is the conclusion than I probably wouldn't played through but of course if your like me you want to complete the series all the way through.
The party gets split again and I don't like that much of the time you don't even get a full party to fight with and some of the characters seem to be pretty over-powered while others are extremely underpowered. You really have to supplement with armor, weapons, items to compensate which often makes it necessary to purchase all upgrades immidiately as opposed to some here and there while advancing till you find the best in game ones which is how I usually played it unless I have a ton of spare gold like if I decided to search out goodie caves (which we're tricky to get into I felt... like the character never wanted to move in just the right spot/way to get in even when I knew where it was)
Anyhoo, despite it's pitfalls and my frustrations with the coices developers made on this game... I did enjoy playing and at least the story on this one felt more complete than 3-3 and not as much back and forth travel for one thing. I did enjoy the satisfaction of seeing Lydia behind bars and Mel and Edward finally getting to marry each other (unless you choose differently). I also enjoyed the satisfaction of having completed the series.
The final battle however seems ridiculously overpowered and excessive. It's two battles, one against Mel, Galahad, and Yemite (Mel's Darkling Personal Servant) the other Against Mordred Darkthrop and his minions. You have to beat both and if you beat the first but not the second you have to do both battle all over. There really should have been a pause that you could save at or at least the autosave should have brought you to the beginning of the second battle. It takes quite a while. I only did basic leveling since it felt pointless after having lost all my previous levels so I went into the final battle around lvl 40? I could with effort beat the first battle with Mel but I couldn't est more than 3-4 rounds with Mordered. I finally decided to just seek out the goody caves which I used to learn all spells for Stella, get est weapons and armor, max levels, and get a bunch of gold to purchase things like toxic sludge and healing/man items. Then both battles went down easily in a few rounds. I read someone else did it at 60 and said it was easy so maye the goal range is 50 for leveling if you want to do it on your own. I admit I didn't complete every possible side quest but I did most of them so doing the minimum (and using all the level eggs) will only get you around 40 you'll want to pick up some extra levels before you begin the final battle scene.
Great ending to a series of 4 amazing games ^^
15/10 would play all 4 chapters all over again!
The last game in the series starts off quickly. Really loved how we got back the characters we all know and love. The plot was good and I liked the new features because our choices actually matter in the long run.
The story parts of the game were exceptional and the characters were awesome! I was again pleasantly surprised by the amount of gamplay, which is the highest for this game.
For me, the only game that didn't do as well as it should've is Aveyond 3-3: The Lost Orb, though I love all of them dearly.
In the end, I just want to thank Aveyond Studios for making this series. I loved this journey and would love to see more stuff from you guys.
Aww I love mel I just hope amanda put more effort on the script to give the characters more intresting
There were some minor problems, but this game was somewhere between good and okay.
One big annoyance was that certain enemies were immune to certain weapons. If you go into a town, buy all new weapons and sold your old ones, you might of screwed yourself. If you buy the weapons in Underfall, good news! The enemies in Underfall are immune to them! So, you are pretty much screwed until you buy your old weapons back. This isn't a constant problem, but it is annoying.
Staus effects were also annoying. There is one battle about half way through that was beyond terrible. You have four enemies and they all constantly cast spells that make your entire party sleep or loose turns. So, the only thing you can do is pray that you can kill them all before the cast spells. If you don't get the first turn, you might as well shut the game off and load your save, because you can't win. Victory is based on luck.
Other than that, the story was amazing. Might be my favorite yet in the series, I cared about the plot and wanted to see where it was going. The new places in the game were interesting and had good music. Almost all of the problems the other 3 parts had were better this time around. I'd give it 7/10. But this game is way too expensive for what you get, try when it's on sale.
The story was good, and the mechanics have vastly improved over the previous games in the series. The places we've previously visited in all the games were unavailable, which could be good or bad. It was getting repetitive to revisit the same places over and over, so the new places were a welcome change. However, one of my favorites parts about this series is the ability to go around collecting animals for Moo Hatchery. Not being able to even visit it took a lot out of the experience for me. And since this was the last of the series, and they just added new areas while keeping the old in the other installments, I think it would have been better if they had at least let us visit the old areas even if there were no missions there.
So, it was fun, and more polished than the others. But they could have done better in tying it to the rest of the series.
i recomend to play all 4 ep of Aveyond Orb of Magic, to in order to see the full story >.
though the 4th one is abit disappointing that they remove some of the good stuff from the 1st 3, but is ok, is for some purpose to prevent players to do this and that (y)
looking forward to aveyond 4. a new story is coming soon >.
Man... times were HARD in this one. Everything cost an arm and a leg, some creatures just refused to DIE, the resistance some enemies had to my weapons that I bought in the area confused me to no end... and worst of all, the people in this game got smart. Normally I can just go into people's houses in any town, hit up about five or so houses and loot them right in front of the owner's faces! And they'd be perfectly fine with it! But now there's not as much to steal... and they complain when I try. But the pickings are still sparse, they've heard I'm coming to town, so they hid all their valuables.
Like the slime farmer! Every time I visited him, I stole all of his slime. All of it. And never used a single one. If this game taught me one thing, it was that you should never leave your stuff around me. I will steal ALL your shit. Even if I don't need it, I will steal all your shit.
And when I saw Nox for the first time, I thought she was annoying, then I saw her character art. SHE IS SO CUTE! Don't even get me started on Uma. Too much cute, not enough money.
Seriously though, if you get this game there will be a LOT of walking because there is no longer a magical transporter, there is no more alchemy that YOU can do, and say goodbye to the Moo Hatchery. The game is challenging enough to give you a good amount of gameplay and the story is awesome~! These are my thoughts, now the choice lies with you.
BEFORE BUYING THIS, PLEASE BUY AVEYOND: LORD OF TWILIGHT, AVEYOND: GATES OF NIGHT, AND AVEYOND: THE LOST ORB, IN THAT ORDER. THIS GAME WILL REVEAL MANY PLOT SPOILERS FOR THE PREVIOUS PARTS AND A COHESIVE STORY CAN ONLY BE FORMED WITH THE PLAYING OF THE OTHER 3 GAMES IN THE SERIES.
Aveyond: The Darkthrop Prophecy is the fourth and final installment in the 4-part series of games that make up Aveyond 3. Don't start with this one, as you'll be missing TONS of backstory. Instead, buy Lord of Twilight first, Gates of Night second, and The Lost Orb third... And finally this one.
Now, I've been following the Aveyond series for several years, back since the first game in 2004 (which doesn't go under the title of "Aveyond", instead; it's called "Ahriman's Prophecy", and it's free from their site, aveyond.com). I was young, the game was cool, so I stuck with the series. In 2006, the actual Aveyond was released and I was stoked. More of AP? Nice! However, Aveyond 1 was completely different from it's predecessor in the best way possible... Fast forward to today, with me writing this review.
Now, I've had this game for a while. Not on Steam, but from somewhere else, so I've played through it a few times before, so this isn't a "first-time playthrough" review or anything. But without further ado, let's get on to the actual review.
Aveyond: The Darkthrop Prophecy is a great game from a great team of people. It's got a ton of pros... But also it's fair share of cons. I'll list them all out for you, dear reader.
PROS:
+Decent price
+Decent gameplay
+Great story (if you've been following since Lord of Twilight)
+Custom music (not all of the music is build-in RPG Maker music, as one could expect)
+Difficulty selection
+Nostalgia factor (for the select few who played the first Aveyond)
+Combat just works
+Dat plot twist at the end (again, you'll have to have played LoT to understand)
CONS:
-RPG Maker... XP.
Before we go any further, I want to explain why this is a con in detail. Aveyond, the series as a whole, while a great series, is all RPG Maker XP. All of it. From Aveyond 1 (not it's prequel Ahriman's Prophecy, however) to this most current one, Aveyond has been an RPG Maker XP game. After 4 years of making games with RPG Maker XP, you think they'd at least move onto RPG Maker VX Ace (which is what I use), but no. Not even a slight upgrade. Don't get me wrong, there isn't nothing wrong with RPG Maker XP itself (besides its dated-ness) but having a whole series of 7 games be all made in a program that was just barely considered "new" at the time of the first game's release is just baffling.
Now back to the rest of the cons...
-Cannot change screen resolution
-Can be confusing to those who never played any of the other parts of Aveyond 3
-Controls can be awkward
-Moves a bit slow
All in all, I will recommend this game. But please, before you spend $10 on this, buy the others. At least get Lord of Twilight to start you off.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Amaranth Games, LLC |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 19.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 90% положительных (29) |