![]() ![]() ![]() The city guard strolling past stops the thieves from also taking your life on top of your coin, but with nothing in your pocket in the city there is only one option that comes to mind: Confront the thieves and get your gold back. Unfortunately, due to arriving at night in some shady part of town, your character of choice gets mugged pretty much as soon as they enter the city. We cannot know the exact reasons for their departure from home, what the character expects, or how they got to the city in the first place, but with a small fortune in their pockets they all want to try their luck in the big city. Regardless of what character you have chosen, their adventure will start in the city of Baldur’s Gate. I like to get close and personal in my videogame experiences though, so I had to pick the dwarf despite the fact that I normally do not play dwarves if given the choice of something else. This screen alone gave me flashbacks to some really old Pen&Paper role-playing game books I have seen, in which races like elf and dwarf were equal to classes the material “Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance” worked with was not that old apparently, but the limitation reminded me of those times and was funny to me. You would like to play some other race/class combination like an elf archer or something else entirely? Well, tough shit, this is what you get. The choice of characters, however, is actually fairly limited: A human archer named Vahn, a dwarf fighter named Kromlech, or the elven sorceress Adrianna are the only options at your disposal. I am not exactly spoiled for choice here…īut before we can venture into the world of Baldur’s Gate, we need to pick a character. I only learned of the game from the news that it got a remake in 2021 but with an emulator on my computer that can run the rom, I decided to give this blast from the past a go. Turns out, the Playstation 2 had a “Diablo”-esque dungeon crawling and monster slaying title in “Baldur’s Gate – Dark Alliance” all the way in 2001 and not only did it use the “Dungeons & Dragons” license, but it was from the same studio that made “Champions of Norrath”, Snowblind Studios. And this sentence is still the case but I thought that it was basically the only game that managed to bring the monster slaying formula to the console at least successfully, since I am definitely not counting “Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel” as a positive mark. Here is an example: Back when I wrote my rather nostalgic review for “Champions of Norrath” in February of 2022, I said that the game was prime “Diablo”-esque action for the Playstation 2. That can be the case for both the important and the mundane. One rule for life that certainly proves to be true on a regular basis is that you are always able to learn. Releases: 2001 (Playstation 2), 2002 (Nintendo Gamecube, Xbox), 2004 (Gameboy Advance), 2021 (Nintendo Switch, PC, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox X/S) Genre: Hack-n-Slash/Action Role-Playing game ![]()
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