Fighting Fantasy Legends Review – Roll That Dice!

<p><em>Fighting Fantasy Legends<&sol;em> is a computer adaptation of the popular gaming book series <em>Fighting Fantasy<&sol;em>&period;  It&&num;8217&semi;s a compilation of three of the FF books&semi; <em>Citadel of Chaos<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Warlock of Firetop Mountain<&sol;em> and <em>City of Thieves<&sol;em>&period; And it&&num;8217&semi;s pretty addictive&period; Each time you progress or die&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s always the allure of trying that pathway&period; Or that one&period; Or that one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Which is interesting&comma; because the game itself doesn&&num;8217&semi;t give you too many options on how to defeat your foes&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s little progression in gear&comma; nothing but a regular attack and you rely entirely on dice rolls&period; But it&&num;8217&semi;s these dice rolls which make the game so interesting&comma; as with just one throw you can change the entire course of your game&period; The events as well&comma; are randomized&comma; so you could&comma; in theory&comma; keep trying an event and dying until you finally get that gold you need to heal&period; My advice is to keep at least one gold piece at all times&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll need it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;130401" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-130401" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-130401 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;10&sol;09144403&sol;20170927205009&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fighting Fantasy Legends 1" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-130401" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Fighting Fantasy Legends<&sol;em>&comma; Nomad Games&rpar;<span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 16px"> <&sol;span><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>As I said&comma; it’s easy to get addicted to this game&period; I only popped it on one evening to try<em> Fighting Fantasy Legends<&sol;em> out and 2 hours later had just defeated a giant dragon and thrown rotten cheese at a sorcerer&period; That’s another thing I like – the inventiveness of the situations&period; Early on&comma; you find a pair of gloves and are asked if you want to put them on&period; Naively&comma; I did&period; Instantly they started to heat up and burned my hands&comma; leaving me injured&period; I can’t think of another game which has quite as wacky but not overtly dark consequences to actions as this game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Due to the inherent luck-based nature of the game&comma; it is difficult&period; I’ve only played on normal difficulty and I&&num;8217&semi;m still finding it tough&period; I even had to restart after trying multiple times to win gold to heal myself&comma; only to lose to a dice roll&period; It’s a shame that there wasn’t a lot I could do about it&comma; but I guess it’s a game of a certain era&period; Games now require careful preparation and multiple avenues to success&semi; it was quite a shock to the system when I couldn’t do as such&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; there is choice in the game&comma; in the form of dialogue options&period; Again&comma; if you didn’t grow up with this style of game&comma; you might be surprised by the not-quite-as-robust nature of the choices&comma; but they’re there&period; What’s nice is that the quirky story carries on to these options&period; For example&comma; it turns out while in a discussion with a woman in the game&comma; replying that you are a tax collector is better than being a florist&period; Of course&comma; it didn’t help that the woman was Medusa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;130400" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-130400" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-130400 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;10&sol;09144016&sol;20170927215515&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fighting Fantasy Legends 2" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-130400" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Fighting Fantasy Legends<&sol;em>&comma; Nomad Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The graphics are a standard &OpenCurlyQuote;indie’ sort of fair&comma; with quite clunky animations and a barebones overworld&period; Of course&comma; as most of the game is done in a static manner&comma; it doesn’t matter too much&period; What is nice to see&comma; however&comma; is the care given to the portraits of the characters&period; They’re all basically paintings from a book and they look great&period; The developers recognized the stellar art work thankfully as you can collect the portraits to look at&comma; at your pleasure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another thing you can collect are titles&comma; which range from &OpenCurlyQuote;defeating a dragon’ to throwing the aforementioned cheese&period; These are quite fun to collect and make you try everything&comma; even if there aren’t any clues to the titles themselves&period; There are also many types of games to play &lpar;although they do all revolve around dice&rpar; so you won’t find yourself at ends with what to do&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; I’ve enjoyed my time with <em>Fighting Fantasy Legends<&sol;em>&period; While it definitely lends itself to &OpenCurlyQuote;interactive choose your own adventure book’ rather than a game&comma; there’s just enough charm to make me recommend this&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center"><strong>A PC review code of <em>Fighting Fantasy Legends<&sol;em> was provided by Nomad Games for the purpose of this review<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"wppr-review-129466" class&equals;"wppr-review-container "><&sol;div>&NewLine;