8/8/2023 0 Comments Fallen enchantress![]() **COMPOSITE SCORE: 6.875/10** **ENTERTAINMENT VALUE: 7/10** Fallen Enchantress has enough good pieces to interest a player in spending a couple hundred hours if you give it a chance. Stardock does some fun things with this recent addition to the 4X/turn-based strategy/RPG genre (such as being set in a fantasy world with armies of wandering monsters and challenging quest areas), but it lacks in enough fundamental areas that I just wasn't excited while playing it. Unfortunately, Fallen Enchantress is not one of them. That said, great 4X games come along once in a long while (Total War: Shogun 2 is an excellent example, while in my opinion, Civilization V is not). If you really like it after you buy it, you can give Stardock more money by buying the map packs. And, I recommend waiting till you can get it on sale. If you like turn-based/4X games, you should give Fallen Enchantress a try, because it has a lot of promising pieces to it, but don't expect a If you like turn-based/4X games, you should give Fallen Enchantress a try, because it has a lot of promising pieces to it, but don't expect a great game, or you'll be disappointed. :-) Well done Stardock! And Kudos to Brad Wardell for giving it free to "Elemental" buyers. It's 11pm and I have to work tomorrow but as this review is now finished I'm off to start a new game. I disagree with Guinevere, it DOES have that one-more-turn feeling. Battle animations are nice and it's fun just to see the different monsters, they look good and move well. ![]() ![]() The cities look great and so do the units. Lots of equipment with strategy changing stats. Why didn't the testers pick this up? But the core game is finally there. There seems to be no way to scroll the battlefield - not WASD or cursor keys instead you zoom out, point your cursor somewhere else, and zoom back in. ![]() It's not without flaws - the interface is still a bit unintuitive, and sometimes doesn't respond to clicks. THIS is the game that Elemental should have been. It's not without flaws - the interface is still a bit Stardock got it right this time. ![]()
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