You’re not going to be getting a fully voiced game here, so let’s get that out of the way. Overall the visuals do more than what they need to do to drive the story along. It’s an impressive amount of work that went into bringing the game world to life. Most of the areas are really well done and look great on screen, some are like the combat screen and leave you a little less than impressed. Most of the time it’s just your lead character wandering the wilderness or towns and interacting with NPCs and objects throughout. It works though and gets its point across.

It can look a bit haphazard at times where some of the critters are coming at you in combat looking like a rendered creature or sometimes a painted and animated one while you’re sporting more traditionally crafted characters representing you and your team in little boxes.

While this game is definitely a throwback to the isometric hand drawn and cg maps of old, this game uses a variety of those and more modern modelling techniques to bring the game to life. It is a pretty basic but also fairly epic story that develops from there as you play through talking with different NPCs and reading about some of the history and the lore within the game. He gathers up a party to go with him as they commanded and sets off across the sea to the lost continent of Xulima in the hopes of retaking it and stopping the war in Rodinia with the help of the Great Protectors and put a stop to the Guardian of Souls from draining the nine gods. No man from Gaulen’s land has ever set foot on Xulima, but there are men and creatures that live there and a new power is draining the gods of their power after they had left and they need Gaulen to reclaim it for them. His home continent of Rodinia is at war and he’s been charged with reclaiming the original home of the nine gods who created his world, Xulima. Let’s take a look.įocusing on Gaulen the Explorer, we find out fairly quickly that his world is in shambles. There are a few places where the game doesn’t work for me, but there’s a lot of care and love for the older and harder rpgs that went into this that’s not hard to notice. It’s a bit on the difficult side, it has an interesting story, and you have a great amount of strategy elements to deploy in what at first looks like a simple combat set-up. It’s designed around some classics to evoke some of the same feeling including Baldur’s Gate, Heroes of Might and Magic, and Wizardry, all with a more modern look and feel. On paper, Lords of Xulima sounds like an rpg that would be right up my alley.

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