The Right stick can rotate and control the zoom on the camera and it all feels “fine”. It can either fill up the entire screen or hover on the right side to guide you through things. Left on the d-pad brings up your automap, key for any good action RPG. You can use the left bumper to change your face buttons into mappable spell slots, the right bumper is your block/parry, and your triggers are for energy and health potions. The controls are basic with A being your main attack, B casting spells, Y for jumping, and X used for interactions. The game supports local multiplayer and is very much a console take-on action RPG genre. There is a human Barbarian, drow Monk, Dwarven Rogue, moon-elf Necromancer, and a human cleric to choose from. You’ll start things off by choosing from one of five classes. The textures and resolution are a massive improvement over the original, and load times are practically non-existent. Once you load in things are much cleaner though thankfully. As you load things up you’re welcomed to the exact same pre-rendered CGI that welcomed you to the original, even the character select looks like a muddled mess plucked directly from the first game’s DVD. This port is $30, which feels incredibly steep to me. After last year’s disappointing remake of Dark Alliance I, has developer Black Isle Studios done a better job of things this time? Well, no. An old-school hack-and-slash action RPG awaits! Pick one of five heroes, defeat monstrous enemies with weapons and spells, loot treasure and level up in this classic D&D fantasy adventure.*Update (July 22nd, 2022) – It looks like the game has been patched on Xbox and the crash for Red Fang Keep should be fixedīaldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II was a 2004 original Xbox and Playstation 2 release that has been “remastered” for modern consoles.
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