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The Legend of Vraz Review (PC)

Posted by Christophor Rick (TheSuperGuido),
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The Legend of Vraz was made by Zatun Games, a developer and outsource company from India, and the local flavor shows through in the game�s graphics.

The point of the game is to go through the levels earning gold as you go. You�ll need 100,000 if you�re going to get the princess to marry you. Now that�s what I call love! Along the way you�ll run into creatures and obstacles that need to be overcome and power ups that will help you out.

You�ll also run into some serious control issues that will probably make you put down the game in distaste, at least it did so for me. First off, it�s a PC game and you can�t configure the controls, so straightaway, it�s down points because this is the most basic of features that a game should have, especially on a computer.

Now the game instructs you to click on the prince or an enemy to attack. Of course, if they�re not in the line of fire, you�ll miss obviously. What it doesn�t tell you is that if you hold down the attack button you can aim from about -45 to +45 degrees. But you can�t do much else when you do that. Several words come to mind including ridiculous and cumbersome. The other option for attack is to jump up and land on the enemies. However, this is fairly hit or miss and if you don�t land exactly on the spot (I�m guessing the head but could be wrong) the game wants you to, you�ll take damage from the creature instead. I just stopped attacking altogether whenever possible.

The game�s control scheme is mouse or arrow keys. Not even the standard WASD keys so you could play with both mouse and keyboard like some might want to do. Sure, it can be accomplished with the arrows but it�s cumbersome (Aha! That�s where that word fits in).

While the graphics are decent for a side-scrolling 2D platformer something about them wasn�t quite right. I can�t quite place my finger on it but I was, I guess, unnerved by them. They�re not bad per se. There are often glitches in the tiled background where the tiles don�t quite line up and you get straight vertical blue lines between them, but I don�t believe that was what was wrong really.

The sound in the game is bland. Sounds are out of place and highly repetitive. The music is the same. It sounds like it�s somewhere between a 30 and 60-second loop of the same music and gets old fairly fast.

Finally, the gameplay feels flawed itself. There�s a level that says "the Princess likes the monkey so don�t hurt it because you will lose your health," but then seemingly requires you to kill the monkey therefore inflicting damage to yourself, often to the point of having to return to the previous checkpoint. On top of that, the game client crashed several times in my freshly installed Windows 7 showing that even the game itself, is unstable.

Overall, I don�t recommend you invest time or money into this title. There are far better 2D side-scrolling games (Dragonica comes to mind and it�s free-to-play). I�m not exactly sure what Zatun was hoping to accomplish with this title, but it certainly wasn�t to make a game that would be extremely popular.

 Our Rating for The Legend of Vraz Review (PC)
4.5
Replay
Can�t stand to play it once, why would I ever go back?
8.0
Graphics
Fine but something just looks a little off to me.
5.0
Sound
Repetitive, uninteresting and somewhat out of place at times.
5.0
Gameplay
Can�t configure the controls at all. The game is uninteresting and contradicts itself.
0.0
Multiplayer/Online Content
5.0
Overall
Not a good game but not completely terrible. It did show instability issues in Windows 7 and frankly, was no fun to play.

Rating: 5.0, votes: 3
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