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Battle of the Ages

Once upon a time, Craze decided LockeZ was clearly evil and challenged him to a battle. The result was Direvil Darkfort, a community event and two-part game in which LockeZ and Craze each created a team of characters to battle each other. This was paired with a week of trash-talking and cheer-leading on the RMN forums where other users were encouraged to pick sides and cheer for their chosen winner (Full disclosure, I was on TeamCraze.), which resulted in both a very amusing marketing campaign as well as creating a unique hook to play the game. In the end, users were invited to vote for which game they thought was better.

Craze's game, known as Team Paladin, pits you in the role of Leon, a paladin who must save his maybe-friend/maybe-love interest Myra from the evil overlords of Direvil Darkfort. And that's pretty much it. Battles are breezy and fun but there's not much point in fighting them as you won't grow or gain any experience from them. Before long you'll face the Evil Overlords, who are not quite but the heroes expect.

It's a decently fun game, the characters have neat abilities and synergize well, but the game feels badly paced as after beating the overlords, there's a whole second half to the dungeon before you must face the Overlord's fused form, which is a lot more annoying and less fun. Fortunately, it's a short game.

Rock on!



LockeZ's game, Team Overlord, puts you in the role of the Overlord of Direvil Darkfort, Mortissiga, who as it turns out is a twelve year old girl. Team Overlord has more of a plot to it than Team Paladin as it turns out Mortissiga's minions don't respect her very much and harry her on her mission as much as the heroes. This results in some amusing banter among Mortissiga and her lieutenants as they traverse the castle before facing the Paladins in battle. Unfortunately, combat in Team Overlord is a slog. Enemies are bullet sponges who take way too many hits to die and your party's abilities are somewhat awkward and un-intuitive to use, and don't synergize well.

Destroying the world before bedtime.



In the end, I slightly preferred Team Paladin, which ultimately won the contest, though neither game is particularly polished or engaging, nor do I think the creators meant it to be, as the game was more of a community event completed in a very short time than an actual game project. Unless you're interested in playing a peculiar piece of RMN history, there's not much to recommend here now that the event is over. I was a bit more generous with the star rating as I considered the amusing community event surrounding this game to be part of the experience, and it was a great deal of fun and I hope to see similar events in the future.

Ironically enough, however, it almost feels like there were two halves to a good game here. LockeZ's amusing narrative paired with Craze's better sense for combat might have made for a game much more interesting than either game on its own. Could there be a lesson here about working together instead of competing and fighitng against each other?

Nah, probably not.

#Teamcraze

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LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
I never expected this "game" to receive a review, certainly not three months later.
Solitayre
Circumstance penalty for being the bard.
18257
I'm just full of surprises.
unity
You're magical to me.
12540
Everything surrounding this game was awesome: the event surrounding it, the game itself, and the crowd participation. Clearly this has to happen again! But which two developers will step into the battlefield, and what will come out of the dual?
@Cashmere_Cat shall we DUAL?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

(yeah i'm bingeplaying craze stuff so that's why i'm here reading reviews and playing and *sigh* it's hopeless)
CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
author=JosephSeraph
@Cashmere_Cat shall we DUAL?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


Yes I think we should. Battles and all. I'm willing to actually try to make a game that includes battles. It'll be a very strange one, though. Perhaps we should duel before the Dinner game, which is before the ODP spinoff, because it seems like it has a time limit to it that will force us to churn out a game like this.
i didn't expect you to actually read this but then again i did and i was about to message you but i was not
idk
we could
we could not
SO MANY GAMES
TOO MANY PAINS



they actually say that in the second repeat of the chorus. "Too many pain"

no but really i would be happy to do that and it's funny because we think alike yet differently. with your puzzley line of thought i think you would make quite interesting battles. but ASHDFVHSJDFVSDFB IDK I'M TOO AFRAID TO DUEL ALONE
WE COULD
SUMMON A TEAMMATE

WHATTTTTT
(WHATTTTTTTTTT)
Solitayre
Circumstance penalty for being the bard.
18257
author=JosephSeraph
I'M TOO AFRAID TO DUEL ALONE
WE COULD
SUMMON A TEAMMATE

WHATTTTTT


Oh come on that's hardly fair. How could anyone be expected to stand up to the might of Team Yuri?
unity
You're magical to me.
12540
author=Solitayre
author=JosephSeraph
I'M TOO AFRAID TO DUEL ALONE
WE COULD
SUMMON A TEAMMATE

WHATTTTTT
Oh come on that's hardly fair. How could anyone be expected to stand up to the might of Team Yuri?


Pfffft is the next duel gonna be Team Yuri against the world? XD

I now know the curse that is being over-hyped. :P
ahahahahahahahahah
our teammate could be someone we've never worked with before :DDDDD
but yea nay! 1x1 UwU
We're actually talking about it inbox ahahahah
CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
I will end you, Joseph.

And I will begin you, too.

(I may also middle you, if I have time.)
not before i wreck time itself. We will never have been.
Solitayre
Circumstance penalty for being the bard.
18257
Just FYI, breaking time is against RMN's Terms of Service.
but it is the future of all creation i will just hasten the Big Rip so the universe can start anew or stagnate for ever
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
wat is happening
And years later I've finally come back to replay and review these games.
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