Arkandian Legends: Chapter I - Crusade

Arkandian Legends: Chapter I - Crusade

Browser - Title screen.

Developer Undefined Publisher Undefined Published 2011-01-04 Platforms Browser Genres Role-playing game, Strategy, Turn-based strategy Themes Fantasy Series Arkandian Legends Distribution Adware

Arkandian Legends: Chapter I - Crusade is a turn-based RPG developed and published by Undefined as a browser game on 2011-01-04. The over world map uses a point-and-click interface which allows you to travel to new mission locales. Missions use tile-based movement with fog of war. When you enter combat, the display switches to a side-view. The game was developed in Flash.

Personal

Own?	No. The game was never sold.
Won?	Yes. Twice as a good character. All missions except the never-ending dungeon.
Finished	2011-01-??.

I believe I found this game while looking for new games to play on Kongregate. I played it through once and beat it, but didn't try to clear out most of the game, so later I played it again and finished all the dungeons entirely except the never-ending dungeon.

Review

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Best Version: Browser

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The constant skill increases are nice and give you constant positive feedback.
• The paperdoll clothing system is very fanciful.
• I like how the combat lets you choose what level of attack you want to risk.
• The weapon prefixes adds a lot of variety to the game.
• The ability to choose good or evil from an early stage is kind of nice.
• The defense missions are a nice change of pace from regular combat.
• Item crafting is a fun side-project.

Bad

• Even with the various weapons, armor, and items, there is a strong sameness to the whole game.
• Nearly all missions lack bosses, which makes beating them rather underwhelming.
• The auto sorting of items in your backpack is obnoxious.
• The store doesn't upgrade its items, so it becomes pretty useless very early in the game.
• The weapons and armor aren't very thematic. A wizard can wear full plate armor without any decrease to their skills.
• All weapons, including polearms and bows, are treated as 1-handed allowing the character to still wield a huge shield.
• The inability of monsters to move makes them seem really superfluous when they're not placed directly in your way.
• It's stupid that you can't cast heal outside of combat.
• Some of the anachronistic clothes are cute, but a lot of them kind of ruin the high-fantasy vibe.
• The random prefixes often don't make sense, like adding a piercing buff to pants, or alchemy mixing increase to a bow.
• Item crafting is entirely unnecessary to beat the game. It should have been incorporated more.
• Other than grinding defensive stats, I couldn't see a use for the defend action during combat.
• The combat status icons have no tool tip, so I didn't know what half of them meant.

Ugly

• While there is a story, the vast majority of the game feels like you're just min/maxing and clicking a mouse button as things happen. There is practically no emotional involvement at all.
• Death has practically no down-side, just the minor cost of having to pay travel expenses again.

Media

Screenshots

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  The main menu.

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  In combat.

Videos

Longplay.

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Representation

Strong female character?	Pass	You can play as a female heroine.
Bechdel test?	Pass	When playing as a female, there will be other NPCs females you will speak to.
Strong person of color character?	Pass	You can adjust your skin tone to several colors.
Queer character?	Fail	As far as I know, there are no queer characters.

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