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Captivating and unique character play - Visually stunning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: August 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing role-playing computer games on and off for over twenty years - from the early days of Rogue up to the graphically intense dungeons of Diablo - and I'm very excited about the debut of Throne of Darkness. I've had the good fortune to spend some time with a prerelease version of the game and found it to be very captivating. They've created a wonderfully elaborate and rich visual world to explore, and the interface controlling a band of samurai adds an element of strategy that is very unique and creates a whole new way of thinking about the possibilities of battle and survival. Definitely looking forward to many, many hours of exploring the universe of Throne of Darkness and ultimately (hopefully) vanquishing the Dark Warlord.

The Down and Dirty

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The influnce of Diablo is quite apparent. The game is in essence what I have wanted D2 to do since it's release which is to allow for total control over mercs. In essence you control a party of each class of character (7 classes, 4 chars may be used at a time). The multiplayer system allows for shared castles (players may control 1 or more char's on the same team) or/and 5 separate forces (competing for the throne). Using the shared castles it is possible to advance one or two characters at a time (for example your amazon and merc would be the D2 equivalent). You can advance each character in this fashion and eventually have a quite powerful clan. Player vs. Player will be what this game is all about (the maps are not as random as in D2)but in order to compete you will have to advance you characters co-op style first. Your looking at a multi-player enviroment with the potential (2 char's per player - no use playing any less) of having around 15 players divided into 5 factions competing for the throne. The game, particularly on single player, is much more strategy intensive than D2 and therefor is not as fast paced but the customization of a group characters is great. Would you like to play your barb, ammy, paladin, and sorc at the same time?
If you answer is YES - this is great game for you!

It's hard, but really fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has an even better and cooler story than all the final fantasys put together. But not as good as the Diablo games. Just missing by a decimal in a percentage rating. This game is sweet otherwise getting to choose from 7 characters from three calans n' all. You get to use four characters at a time. Three are being controlled by the computer, where you are controlling one that you rotate using the space bar. The game is awsom if you like Revenant (another reccomended game) or Diablo.

HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE GAME!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 20
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I cannot describe how boring this game is. I played it for 30 mins and uninstalled it immediately. The idea is good, the graphics are great, but the gameplay [isn't good]. In comparison to Diablo II, its annoying enough to manage the equipment and health/mana for one character, much less for four at a time, then having to worry about "teleporting" your other characters to the healing area and then teleporting them back. I picked up this game hoping it would be a mix between Diablo II and Baldur's Gate II, but its nothing near that. I obviously recommend staying away from this pitiful pitiful game, where you "control four characters", but can only truly control one at a time while the AI takes control of the others, and they go running off at a monster unless you change the stance, although that doesn't always help.

It shouild be better than Diablo II

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: October 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Actually, I never play Diablo II. But I viewed the developer's preview video. They sounded like studying the Diablo's very well.
However, the manual did not describe how to use those items to upgrade samurai's weapons/armors that the samurais pickup after killing. I just tried around. The graphics are pretty detailed and I like the audio as well.

It is almost like AOL 2 that I loved it so much. It is worth of your money and time, even your sleeping time.

I Enjoy Throne of Darkness more than Dungeon Seige

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I haven't gotten back into my Dungeon Seige game yet since I started Throne of Darkness. Although it is not quite as easy to play as Dungeon Seige I enjoy it much more.

As I am learning kenjutsu at my local dojo, I find the feudal Japanese setting and weapons much more interesting. It is even annoying in its realism - your weapons and armor have a durability factor and must be repaired or replaced frequently after battles.

This rates near the top of my list of favorite video games of all time: along with Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Dungeon Seige and Vanguard!

Fun, but very little replayability.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I highly enjoyed this game, but found that little changed if you choose a different Dimayo to play after finishing the first game. Still, I had fun and for the price I paid for the game, you can't beat it.

ToD works with Cedega

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Not being a Windows user, I'm particularly interested in games that work with Cedega, a Linux program that runs Windows games. Not all games work, but this one works great!

Graphics are good and the story line is rather educational, regarding ancient Japanese mythologies.

Lots of fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

A bit like Diablo II, but you have control of four characters at once. The controls (using the space bar to change from character to character) take some getting used to, but the action is fun and there are endless items that you can build using the items that you find (mostly parts of the monsters that you kill). Well worth the cost. A good RPG.

Just like too many role playing games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This was one of the best games I have played. However, when I got into the higher levels (above 20) the whole game froze and I lost my saved information. Now, 2 weeks of play are down the drains. I will not start over, so the game is over for me and I didn't get to complete the game. This tends, in my experience, to happen with a lot of games made by Sierra. Very dissapointing. No wonder it went down in cost so fast.

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