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• gamedeal user

  Feb 9, 2022

  This game diligently wants to disguise itself as a normal RPG. Looks good, costs a little. But upon closer examination, it turns out that it has not been completed right in everything - dialogues, history, controls. All this is just awful and unplayable.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2014

  As a longtime fan of the Dark Eye pen and paper rpg, I was intrigued when I heard about Demonicon. An action-rpg in the Black Lands, dealing with the legacy of Borbarad - sounds good, at least in theory. Let's see how it holds up: Liked: - the content is mature (little SPOILER: there is a budding incestous relationship between our main protagonists) - the gameplay is on average pretty smooth, barring a few hiccups - the setting has been almost painstakingly recreated and the details border on continuity porn (if you don't know what that is, look it up on tvtropes.org) - the story manages to pull you in and doesn't let up until the very end, with tough decisions, whose results you only see after a while, but for some there is always a third option depending on your skills -superb VA (at least in the german version, haven't tried the english yet; little spoiler: your father has the german voice of Liam Neeson) Disliked (well not actually disliked, but more puzzled by): - a couple of glitches in the graphics, nothing major or gamebreaking; I've seen a lot worse in AAA titles - something in the story progression that didn't make a lot of sense (SPOILER: you beat a powerful and annoying Rondrian and loot the armor from his corpse, only to be immediately offered a better demonic version by a demon - what's up with that?) Bottom line: IMO Demonicon felt like a somewhat quality-reduced clone of The Witcher 2, which is a superb game and thus Demonicon managed to be at least a good game. If you liked The Witcher 2 and you need to pass some time until The Witcher 3 arrives, then Demonicon is the game for you. If you're a fan of The Dark Eye, then Demonicon is also for you, since this is the only game besides Drakensang that made me feel like I was actually walking through Aventuria. Everybody else, it's up to you.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 24, 2014

  I bought this game at a pretty hefty discount before it was released after watching trailers and reading previews. I like the game quite a bit, not at all disappointed with the purchase. I played it pretty consistently until I finished it. Overall I'd rate it a 80/100 The story is dark, set in a world plagued by demons and monsters after some sort of cataclysmic magical apocalypse. The decisions you make have very real consequences both for those close to your character and for the city where you spend most of your time. The game system works well - clearly heavily influenced by the Witcher 2. The combat is pretty good, but slightly rough around the edges. So should you buy this game? Depends on how much you like RPG's with dark stories, and whether or not you are willing to excuse the combat for not being as good as Witcher 2, Skyrim, Dragon Age or KOTOR 1&2. Finally I'd like to address the "incest" thing. Clearly people were not paying attention as your character is not actually a blood relative of the possible romantic interest.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 31, 2023

  Dragon Age Origins if 2/3 of the game was in Denerim, there are no party members, combat is real time action (think Witcher 1), and your romance option was Leliana only (and she was your sister). Combat is good but give it a little time into the game to grow on you, I didn't like it at first. Overall a solid action RPG with pretty good story, 7.5/10
• gamedeal user

  Nov 30, 2015

  I was born from the depths of the demon realm, fought monsters, demons, warriors and even my own kin to build my powers and seek the truth of my existence. Along the way I chose which people I would help, what alliances I would form, who I would trust and whom I would betray via conversation trees and my actions throughout my story. With every monster I killed I became more powerful by upgrading my skills, abilities and magic. What powers I upgraded determined how I interacted with the medieval style fantasy world I existed in. Upgrade my healing abilities and not only did potions work better on me but I was able to heal others on my journey. Upgrade my plant knowledge and more potions became available to me to be crafted, for healing, buffing and to poison my enemy. I was able to choose which magical attacks would best fit my play style and upgrade them accordingly to wreak havoc on my foes and seek vengeance, love, sex or various truths of the day. Demonicon was an above average action RPG overall. It did everything an RPG is supposed to do well enough and has lots of flexibility in character creation, an enjoyable story that you get to sway here and there with meaningful choices, and solid if unspectacular graphics and voice work. I really enjoyed Demonicon more than most RPG’s I have played, the “Dark Eye” universe was new to me and I enjoyed exploring it and the character development choices and powers really made me feel like I was evolving into a demonic weapon, very satisfying experience and very underrated game.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 22, 2015

  Demonicon is a 3rd person action RPG. You follow the story of a brother and sister, which takes place in the Dark Eye universe, who find out they have special gifts when their blood was mixed. You only play as the brother leveling up through action points and gift points you earn through battles. You can level up main stats like strength and vitality, skills like lockpicking, medicine, and speech or combat skills with the action points you earn. The gift points go towards your gift skills which are like magic powers. Combat in the game is ok. You have one mainattack besides the combat and gift skills. When attacking you need to time the button pressing right to continue your combo attack. Enemies can become bothersome or annoying sometimes when you go to attack and they keep hitting you and stopping your action. Controls did feel a little sluggish and slow when attacking. You do have a dodge roll which helps a little but your character seems to move slower than everyone else. Graphics look to be from something 10 years ago which isn't bad just not up to par with some games today. Plus it doesn't matter how a game looks if you enjoy it. Sounds were pretty generic and sometimes annoying. There are some parts in town when you are running around and NPC dialog got load and cluttered when it seemed like 10 people are trying to talk over one another. Characters were pretty interesting and funny. You can choose different ways to go in the game and I chose mainly the good side of things. What was weird though was in some conversations it seemed like my character was rude and evil even though I would pick the better dialog route. The story overall wasn't bad and get me interested to see how it all panned out in the end. You could even do another playthrough to see where other actions would take you. There were some issue with the game though. Framerate issues were a problem throughout the game. No matter where I put the settings I would drop as low as 15 frames sometimes which made for some rough video. I also would see pop in at times and screen tearing. I even had the game crash on me about 5 times when I was more than halfway though the game. Despite these flaws the game was still fun and intriguing. I liked some of the characters and even had some laughs here and there. It also has replay value if you'd like to see where the different choices would take you. If you can get the game on sale than pick it up and enjoy your time.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 4, 2016

  After playing other games from this developer like Mars War Logs, which I did enjoy, I fought through the negative feedback and thought, maybe this game just isnt for everyone! Unfortunately this game wasn't what I was hoping for. The fighting mechanics are slow, clunky and extremely repetitive. I probably could've played the game with a macro, 'swing, swing, swing...' The story was okay at best. It had nothing that excited or really made you want to play more thinking what's next? Frankly I'm shocked I played this game to completion, I dont recommend playing it as it might just sit in your library forever.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 15, 2017

  The only people who are giving this game positive reviews are fans of the "dark eye universe"... as a fan of high fantasy I can understand their Devotion to a beloved intellectual property. However... This game is terrible. The combat is Clumsy, the animations are crude, and the voice acting would be an insult to a B Movie. I did not make it far in the game, because of the glaring quality issues. The game ran fine, but nothing about it made it seem like a worthwhile endeavor. The lack of polish recalled PlayStation 2 ports that were rushed to Market before 3D games were truly understood. I am not adverse to low budget games, I have to make this clear. I have played several games on Steam that I picked up for $5 or less, released by Indie Developers, on evidently limited budgets... a couple of these titles were very cheesy endeavors, but still good games with decent stories. (Blood Knights, Marlow Briggs, Hunted-The Demons Forge - specifically) Truthfully, I'm not hard to please... give me a good bro shooter, or a God of War clone, and I will be entertained, I do not need every game I play to be perfect. But on this one the developers just seemed lazy, in early encounters four legged enemies rotated on an axis, independent of their animations, to face me in combat. The environments were crudely conceived, the character movement janky. Graphics seemes buggy, even when not. The reason I am writing this, is because of other reviews praising the story... While some intruiging concept may be brought forth later in the game, what I witnessed was fumbling cheese. (A brother and sister bored of their fathers admonitions "never to mix their blood", yet who by adulthood did not bother to find out why) I just failed to see the strength of the story. And that DOES matter to me. Is it the worst thing ever? No. Digital homicide bad? No. But... Don't let the fan-boy reviews make you think this game is Skyrim or anything nearly worth the asking price. If you buy it, deep, DEEP discount. (This is one of 2 games I have ever bothered refunding.) 2/10
• gamedeal user

  May 27, 2018

  engrosing game, in vein to dragon's dogma and risen, with some dark overtones... Good for a few hours of entertainment
• gamedeal user

  Jun 30, 2018

  Full disclosure: I'm an avid PnP practitioner, including the Dark Eye myself, so if you dismiss my review as "cRPG nerd, no idea of the PnP stuff behind this game", that's your bad. And yeah, this game havily includes loads of PnP tropes. Sadly, it emphasizes the worse parts and goes easy on the good ones. Let's start with the most striking mistake. The topic of the game is blood magic which, in the DE (Dark Eye) universe is a huge deal. Really huge. Like wearing SS insignia and openly praising Hitler in post-war denazified Germany. Blood magic is really that evil. ...and in the game, it's just your ordinary seen-hundreds-of-times "Hit enemies to charge your adrenaline/anger/special/power/blood-bar to trigger special abilities". See what I did here? This mechanic is so ordinary, it has existed in several neigh-identical shapes throughout the years. They took what's a REALLY huge deal lore-wise and used a tried-and-true-not-huge-neither-creative-mechanic to represent that huge deal in the game. Reminds me on bad storytellers that say "The forest looks spooky" instead of describing how the trees look weird and seem to move, how the shadows look too dark for that time of day, you know, instead of building actual atmosphere. Just like bad storytellers say "The forest is spooky" and are done with it, this game says "Yeah, that's very evil" and is done with it. Why build atmosphere? This is, sadly, not the only example. All too often, this game just claims that something's dramatic and expects you to flip that switch in your brain instead of genuinely showing me how dramatic something is. An interesting example of this are traps. There are traps all over the place (normal RPG trope and good if done good), but to disarm them, you have to find a lever. Your character won't disarm the actual trap, your character can only pull a lever expecting me to feel like I'm disarming a trap because the game just told me that I did so, instead of showing me. There's not enough buildup either. [spoiler]When you summon a demon or friggin' decide on the new bible for the evil church of all evil(tm)[/spoiler], that stuff just happens. Again, those surely are huge deals in the DE universe, but why not make them feel hugely impressive in the game instead of telling me "Dis iz huge deal, now flip that switch in your brain to feel impressed". The next horrible PnP trope lies in the dialogs. Everyone in this game just loves hearing themselves talking. It's not like they had much to say, they just love to talk. Again, I know that from PnP as well, when I was about 14, I thought that stilted, puffy talk is how you roleplay. Well, it isn't. Not fun either, wasn't fun back then and it only got more boring during all those years. That plays nicely into the next horrible trope: Everyone and his grandma is always a friggin' expert on the game lore. Not few people I've played PnP with don't actually roleplay, they rather talk for what seems like an eternity about in-game-historical events or the whole world building stuff. It's fun occasionally or if the character in question is some clichee mage who just can't have a normal human conversation. But if it's pretty much everyone you meet, it gets stale quickly. On the other hand, there's lore thrown all over the place. In dialogs of course, but there's loads of stuff you can read in the world or look at famous people and trigger an interaction. None of this is particular interesting in of itself, instead, it leans heavily on the fanservice side of things. And that's what the game is, fanservice. It feels like some people really passionate about all this lore got together, but missed out on the parts that makes an actual game. It's not like there's no good gameplay to be had. There's a bit of exploration to be had, there's no open world area per se (which I very much salute), but the separate areas tend to be generally enjoyable and environmental puzzles every now and there spice things up. The combat isn't as tight as in, let's say, The Witcher 3, but there's still fun to be had. Still, they couldn't resist taking over the worst PnP tropes. Instead of giving you a basic set of combat maneuvers and letting you loose with improvising with them, it goes the lame road with giving you several of them but heavily scripted in what they do and don't. I know, that's the way many people play PnP, but that's a very lame way to play PnP. On the other hand, you get checks in dialogs (read: need to have high enough level in skill X). Those can throw some more lore (and bonus XP) at you, but they also can open quest doors. Not that there wouldn't have been another option to solve this particular encounter, but it's always nice to simply overpower my verbal adversary with a witty line. Speaking of witty lines, the story, as in "WHAT happens there" is pretty good and had they not buried it under heaps of empty speech, it would've been absolutely enjoyable. There are a few areas that you visit repeatedly during the story and they tend to have stuff that's impossible to get at first. A trap requiring a REALLY high skill to disarm it guarding a chest. At first, it's a WTF but later, it's a "Gotcha, lil' sucker". What's not so good, is the bonus XP you get from this stuff. In theory, getting bonus XP after disarming such a trap or winning a conversation is nice. In practice, that not-so-gently nudges you towards a particular play style, making other options present in-game disadvantegous effectively taking them away. A great thing about PnP is that you have all the options you want, at least in theory. I know that in practice, not few storytellers don't have the imagination to steer characters through while leaving the players freedom to actually roleplay and, even worse, when playing a pre-written story, storytellers tend to stick to the book letter-by-letter, requiring particular classes in the party. Again, a bad PnP trope. I know that things can be done differently from my own experience, when storytelling, I typically come up with the starter on the way and improvise everything else on-the-fly reacting to my players. I know I can't expect that level of freedom from a cRPG but there are cRPGs having better options than Demonicon that don't stem from the inherently limitless PnP background, Demonicon is losing on it's own home turf here. It's not like I didn't enjoy the game. It has it's good moments, partially good dialog, actually really story, pretty good gameplay, but all of this gets buried under bad PnP tropes. I admit, the game's worth it if fanservice is what you're after and you can ignore all the shortcomings. The fanservice is undeniably strong in Demonicon. But if you're after an actual game, there are better options. In terms of budget RPGs, Venetica springs to mind. It's largely similar, 3rd persion RPG with real-time combat and the-chosen-one special abilities, but the special abilities are integrated way better, the gameplay mechanics are better, the story is presented in a better way and Venetica is more charming overall. And let's not forget The Witcher series, always worth a recommendation! Cheap to get too.