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hmmm looks...interesting

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: July 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well i don't know what you like but this game would be great for me. Latly i have had a intrest in fuedal jappan (no realy!) and this game caut my eye. The gaming is much more plasible since 1)you use plays to comand team mattes instead of some odd phycic ability to to choose tier actions for them hence you use leadership skills 2)your weopons wear out like in real life 3)Is bassed on mit rather than some imployese's bad dream or something 4)millions of other tid bits So why 4 stars? well the game looks ether short or repedative and rather costly, plus i gtta bad feeling that the makers will incorparate some over-graphic violence making the game M and discuraging some people who would love this game(you know wo you are).

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.

THIS GAME KICKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just spend a lot of time with the demo version of this game and i am very impressed. at first i thought this was just a diablo clone set in feudal japan with a bunch of people following you around (not that that's bad), but this game is very ORIGINAL. the concept (story-wise) is at least. the gameplay is also very fun. you use tactical play calling to make "plays" basically setting formations that your people will loosley follow (meaning they chase people down and run away when theyre gonna die). the AI, music, and difficulty are good. The graphics are a little sub-diablo, but have a different art-type. the only knock with the demo is its very short and there are no saves. there will be saves in the final game. also, did anyone but me notice a bug where the portal in the shrine room wouldn't register?

This game is damn cool...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: September 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Okay, not only did they get me by the japanese setting alone, but once I got my Beta test CD in the mail and installed this game i was instantly blown away by the beautiful artwork that was put into this game... I still can't get over how pretty it is...

Anyway, eye candy aside, the game plays pretty quickly and most battles are just a bloody mess... It took me a little while to get used to switching through all my Samurai during a battle to make sure they all cast the right defensive or offensive spells, and then it's a clicking i go!!!

I love the death animations in this game... definitely lots of blood...

The thing that really got me though, is once I had enough money I could take all of these monster parts and gems and such that I had been collecting, and totally customize all my weapons and armor!!! I can't believe how hardcore some of these things can be!!! Can you make a weapon in diablo that inflicts 4 kinds of elemental damage while draining health and mana from your enemies as well as boosting your character stats?!?!! And that's stuff I made before I was even 10th level!!!!

Tons of monsters, more spells than I could ever use, plus the spell effects and sounds are great!

I'm so stoked I'm helping out to make this a better game, but I tell you now this game's gonna rock!!!

Beta Tester that loves this Game!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was one of the lucky few that had the chance to Beta test the multiplayer the last couple of days, and this game is amazing, as I can't stop playing it. It is definately going to be a hit. The world is huge and rich with Japanese mythology, and the monsters come at you with realistic AI. Throne of Darkness is best game Sierra has put out since Half Life and I am buying it for sure.

Fun, involved, expansive, and just better than DII, single p

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 27
Date: September 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Diablo II fans will love Throne of Darkness. The designer of Diablo moved onto work on ToD in San Francisco based Click in order to move some of his ideas along, I suppose.

The game plays very similar to Diablo II, but makes the game more customizable and gives the user more power to take different paths. My biggest problem with Diablo II was that players basically were forced along in their quests, and that there simply was a "best character." However, ToD will not have this problem since there will be four out of seven characters playing. This creates *infinite* possibilities.

An important note: the demo is quite fun, but does NO JUSTICE to the real game! There are many things missing in the demo that make it seem like a weaker game than it is.

In terms of graphics, ToD represents the samurai age quite well, considering the game is a fantasy game. The style is very fitting and look right. There could be some more detail in characters, but I'm not complaining :)

Listening to the game was pleasuresome to my ears. The music is generally good, and the fighting and speech sounds are also strong.

The tactics system really comes through, though it is a little bit annoying when your wizard runs out of ki (MP) and runs up trying to kill that massive elder kappa (a turtle?). However, death is by no means permanent, and really isn't that big of a deal, unless everyone dies. :)

The magic system doesn't really look that special, but I haven't really gotten far enough to tell for sure. My wizard has been weak, but he's definitely getting stronger with each level. I expect him to be a powerhouse pretty soon!

As for an item system, this is where ToD shines. There is so much customizability that its ridiculous. It's like Diablo II with up to 24 gem slots, but with a larger variety of gems :) I can't wait to have a 24 slot 75-150 damage sword with whatever customizing items in it... Also, no item is wasted. Junk is not junk anymore. These can be given or offered to the blacksmith or priest of your temple which then are put into a material point system which can be used in junction with gold to build up better items with more customizing slots. It makes you want to pick up EVERYTHING! :)

Well, I believe ToD is one of the most innovative games in it's genre since the original itself. I haven't anticipated a game this much since Diablo II! And I'm not disappointed either.

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.

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.

Fun game...for a while

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I did not know what to expect when i first tried out Throne of Darkness. At first I was impressed by the animations and the the good interface of the game. When I started to play i noticed the graphics where bright and colorful but as i kept playing they did get a little repetitive. The 4 castles in the game are pretty similar as are the caves and outside areas. The sound and the music are not great, but not annoying either. The coolest thing about the game imo are the animations. These are just plain awesome. There are 4 clans to pick from, but they are all basically the same except having different starting locations and having a couple different 'personal' quests. This game borrows _heavily_ from Diablo and Diablo 2 up to the inventory and character screens. The fact that you can customize weapons and armor is really cool, although all-in-all those customizations can be expensive and are not all that powerful. There is an assortment of powerful unique items which really do kick much butt. Now the complaints. First of all the wizard in this game is pretty useless. It will be really hard to get him to go up in levels and also unless you control him personally, he pretty much doesnt do anything when being ai-controlled. Another annoyance is that if you want to trade items between your 7 characters you constantly have to send them back and forth to the daimyo to cycle through them to see who needs what..very annoying. These were my biggest two complaints, so if that's all I could come up with, the game aint that bad. The replay value here is pretty low as you prolly won't wanna go through the game more than twice, there isnt much new or different the second time you play. Overall I enjoyed TOD and would recommend it to fans of this genre.

Throne of Darkness Rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love Throne of Darkness. Everything from the multiple tactical plays to the Japanese mythology setting makes this game the best of its kind. The single player options have tons of quests and amazing creatures I've never seen before.

Once you find your Blacksmith and Priest this game takes on a whole other dimension. You donate items and weapons along the way to your Blacksmith and he will make even better weapons with the materials. The Blacksmith can also make hundreds of customizable weapons with different magical items you get along the way. The Priest on the other hand will grant you spells as you gain experience or donate magical items to him.

Combat is very thought out where you control four of your seven possible samurai at once with very smart AI. Playing calling or tactic calling controls your non-active samurai. There is a tactic interface where set plays are also fully customizable. For instance you can set a character as a spell caster, ranged, aggressive, defensive, melee, and so on.

Multiplayer is probably my favorite part about ToD. It's basically your king of the hill type of game play where you fight to kill the Dark Warlord first and then actually become him. You can also co-op with other castles to fight your way to the top or take over their castles and kill their Daimyo, which kicks them out of the game.

I must warn you, this game is very addictive. The graphics and sounds are very well done in great detail and the game play is very fast paced. There is not a dull moment in this game. I highly suggest buying this game.

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