Nox

"A bit like Zelda, but the best RPG on PC."

This game is a bit like Zelda: The ocarina of time on the N64, but on the PC I haven't seen such a good RPG. Till Final Fantasy VIII came on the PC as well.

You are a guy from a normal American village who works in a fun park with coaster and merry-go-rounds. Then he gets sucked in to a ride and he's off to the middle ages. The DARK ones. You have to save the cillage of Ix from Hecubah and the ogres and especcialy from the Undead. Otherwise you won't be able to go back to the 21th century.

You can choose between 3 characters, so its lastability is very high. And with every character there are 11 levels. It isn't a game like: playing in one day (except if you have played 24 hours). I don't know excactly how long, but I guess 15 hours of playing each character, so with the three players together 45 hours. That's almost two days fully playing. The most RPG's contain less hours.

The graphics are not totally 3D, sometimes if you run, the grass on the ground will ''slide'' with you. It's like: driving in a car and seeing the trees flashing around you.
But then less fast. Although all the characters are very good quality, either the ones you can play or the enemies/friends are well drawn.

The sound isn't that good. But the exciting music and sometimes the groans make it fun to play. But what it would have made very cool, as they speak in the dialogues between characters. Nothing more to say about this...

Then the most scoring points of this review, the origianality. I've never seen such a RPG on the PC. Not looking at the PSX and N64 or SNES or Gameboy. Although Indiana and The Dig and Broken Sword were kinda this game, but they were more adventure, no fighting and stuff. That's why NOX has got an nine by me and not a seven.

Difficulty is very high, you can't set it but.. The first two or three levels or quite easy, thne you'll get the fourth till seven, they are terrifying difficult, you have to save a lot (which is also a very good part of the game).
Then the eighth and nineth are less difficult and at last.
The tenth AND eleventh.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 08/05/00, Updated 07/16/01