Ok - a warning. If you haven't played yet, or finished playing yet, you might not want to read on, as there could well be some spoilers/surprises following.


Someone asked if there was a place to give game feedback, and there's really nothing set up, so I'm making a place right here.

Feel free to post your thoughts on the game.

The game is the best Amanda's done so far...it easily beats all of the other rpgs out there, and I honestly think it's well on the way of bieng named "And the Game of the Year Award goes to...Aveyond: Lord of Twilight!" Really, the game's awesome. Has one person who's played it (further than the tutrial) not liked it ALOT???

Edit: My favorite feature(however small) is the disappearing corpses. The graphics are amazing, and the sounds/muisic are the best things about the game other than the game itself. And the feature that the chars. in reseve get experence is going to make me love the game more.(Im not far enough th have reserve chars.) It's going to make the game much easier, choosing chars. as needed.

It is brilliant, but ridiculously short. I have finished it in 6 hours =((( Other than that, I love the game. Stella is annoying, but I guess there must be someone like this in the party. I can't wait to see the development of romantic relationships. Mel and Edward really suit each other and it is kind of good to see that Mel has a love rival. Te'ijal is cooler than she was before and I am glad that her husband is finally falling for her.

I'm not anywhere close to finished yet - just haven't had the time to really sit down and focus. I'm currently having a devil of a time trying to keep Te'ijal and Galahad alive long enough to get them to the Overworld. Anyway, I gives what feedback I can right now.

STUFF I TOTALLY DIG:

1. I love the music. It's awesome and captures the spirit of the locations excellently. Props to Aaron Walz!

2. The scenery/maps are beautiful. The artwork is amazing. The colors are rich, the detail amazing.

3. I like the "disappearing corpses" feature, wherein they vanish once you've collected your loot after battle. Nice touch.

4. If I read it correctly during the tutorial, battle experience is earned by ALL characters, including those in reserve? That is a terrific feature. Love it. Of course, I'm not far enough into the game to HAVE reserve characters...but when I am, I know I will love it.

QUESTION: does that work the same for resting? If I go to an inn, will my reserve characters' stats refresh, or will I need to switch my party and rest again?

5. The plotline switches (from Mel to Te'ijal and back to Mel again) are unique, interesting, and give an challenging twist to the game. The only thing that concerns me a little bit about that is that - for me, at the moment - I am stuck, as I cannot keep Te'ijal alive long enough to get her to Overworld. Those little green things keep killing her. In previous Aveyond games, if I knew where I needed to go to advance the story, but the monsters were too strong, I simply went out and hunted up a few more levels until I was ready. But I can't do that now. It makes it more of a challenge, definitely, and therefore more interesting. But I may completely change my mind about that if, by Sunday night, I'm still stuck and have depleted my food and money supplies to where I simply cannot continue.


STUFF I'M NOT TOO KEEN ON:

1. The order of the menu items (not the menu at the bottom of the screen, but the menu you bring up when you click Escape). I prefer to use the keyboard controls when playing Aveynod and the "Items" menu is halfway down the column. A bit of a pain to have to hit the arrow key to go down every time I want to use an item. I would prefer it if the "Item" menu item to be closer to the top. This is not something that is totally ruining the game for me, it's just a mild annoyance and a preference.

2. Green Warp Eggs. I like the idea, but are they supposed to work every time you use one, or are they a random event? Reason I ask is that I attempted to use one during the first plotline switch, when Te'ijal was trying to convince Galahad to help her. Those skeletons were destroying Galahad and I had nothing to help him with, so I tried to warp out of there and it did not work. Now, given the extended scene that happens after that fight is over, I wondered if perhaps the egg was disabled for that particular battle, so you wouldn't miss the scene. If that is true, and the eggs will work all the time during the rest of the game, then I like the feature just fine. However, if they are a random event, then I'm not really liking the idea of something so rare being so random. If I could purchase a bunch of them at a store and they were random, well, that's OK. But randomness and rareness just don't go together.

resting - yes, i believe so.

te'ijal - find the cursed armor and equip it on her. it will reduce damage to about 10 per enemy. then keep using drain. oh, and deactivate galahad so he doesn't get killed.

items - yeah me too.

green warp eggs - i believe it's not random. it's just because that fight is a storyline battle.

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Now why didn't I think of that? Deactivate Galahad. *hits forehead*

I sold the cursed armor I found so I'd have funds to purchase food to keep them alive.

Well...hmmm...I might just start the whoel game over again. We'll see.

Oh man I really LOVE the game. The tutorial was way cool with the shiny arrows, and when Te'ijial came out to save Mel I was super super happy and had actually felt triumphant! Its great to see them back (Gelahad too) I love the graphics and the plot so far! However, I can't hear any music, I wonder if there's anything wrong with my version? I've been clicking 'Switch On Music' for quite a number of times.

Hmm maybe you should try reinstalling or something.

I thought the game will occupied me for quite sometime, finished it in 12 hrs, now got to wait for another month for Chapter 2 (love the game though)

loh_wei_qi:
Press F1 on your keyboard, then make sure the box in front of 'Play BGM and ME' is checked.

If it is checked, and you have the music/sound tu4rned on in Options, you probably have a sound card issue.

Make sure your sound card drivers are up to date.

Also, you can run dxdiag (Start - Run - 'dxdiag.exe' - Enter) and run the tests on the Audio tabs. That may detect if you have a partly bad sound card. (And, in case you're wondering, yes, a sound card can be bad and still play MOST things.

Well, I"m still ofciialy struggling with my graduation which hjas moved its date to 11th July but for a reak from all the intellectualising I bought and tried the game.

It really is a very strong position. I do mind that it has been split into chapters because that way i will have to spend more money. Even if it;s just 10 dollars, in the long run, when it all accumulates...I'm just in two minds about that.

I like how you switch between parties. I like the choices that you can make for Edward.
More things like this and fans of each character may be content, Ibelieve. I love the day/night system. The story is unique and very well written. And i love the interaction between Galahad and his vampress. Haha, they are funny. They are the ones I am most fond of, the other characters haven't really grown on me yet, aside from Mel. She is very likeable ad a nice change from Iya and Ean, whom I thought were too wishy washy. Edward is annoying, to be frank. I don't like him at all but maybe he will become more pronounced, stronger in the course of this life-altering journey.


Stella is a charming creature though I started dreading the day when Ldia joins the company..even though she might evovle and even though she is likely to be an asset.

I love the maps, with beautiful, clear, lush graphics. I love the fact that you go to Aveyond and that it has evovled so much, heck I even love the witches, given that they connect with all previous games. the music is great.

I sense this chapter could lead in gazillions of directions, including a potential threat for Pendragons. Spying reeks of some potential forthcoming political disturbances and from my perspective this has a high chance of becoming really epic in scope, with many plot elements, which might be an advantage of "serial" prodution.

I think this is going to be the best game of the series so far, even if Av 1 the way it was released will remain my personal number one as it had my top favourite characters. I think Av 2 wuld be the weakest one. But av 3 is so unique in so many ways...the story is running very strong so far, it is logical and emerges from itself. It;s a blast to be offered somehing this well written.

The strength of your games lies in good scripting and making characters very likeable.And original soundtracks, too. It's really hard to describe but it just hits home with me. And it takes something unique to suck me in given that I'm a picky gamer.

In other words, despite it being completely convicned about chapters, I will definitely continue to support and purchase your games. You have showed me your hard work and quality, and I thank you. It's worth its price, divided or not.

Now back to that dissertation of mine.

Regards to all and see you in a month.

I felt the game itself was on par with the rest. I know what to expect from Amaranth Games now, so I wasn't disappointed. I like seeing the creatures/eggs from Grimm's Hatchery. Nice combo!

Per characters, I really could care less about Te'ijal and Galahad. I felt it was a bit of a cheat to have them SO much stronger than the team. I get why they're leveled, but it still felt a bit ... cheaty ... to me. I also hate Stella -- Mel is so much better. Edward was ticking me off, too, but he's seemed to subsided a bit. Hopefully, Stella's magical abitlities will endear her to me, but I'm doubtful. I've always been a brute force kind of RPG-er anyway ...

However ...

I despise the chapter thing. There's no way that two parts of this game equal a previously released Aveyond game. I feel that getting the team to this point was about as long as it took me to get the team ready to begin rescuing the druids in AV1. And then I still had seven druids to rescue! Now, if in GoH, we still have a bunch of stuff to do, I guess I'd be okay with it. But I'm thinking, it's only three more keys and a showdown with Baddy McBad, the Lord of Twilight.

I also wish we could go back into the game after we've finished and continue to level up for the next chapter. I wandered around a bit in the forests south of ... I think it was Hamberg -- Mel's hometown -- whatever ... and I could totally wail on some of those creatures for a while. At least it's something to do while we wait!

So for the game, it's just what'd I'd expect from Amaranth -- nifty graphics, decent storyline, cool tunes. For game duration, I'd say 5/10. Hopefully the next installment is much longer!

scully, chapter two is quite long. Getting some of the keys takes a long time, with multiple visits to multiple continents & islands for some of them.

@scully_girl haven't tested the game, but from what the testers said the game is longer than the previous Aveyonds (which was the reason for 2 chapters) I'll take it that part no.2 is much longer and full with action So don't feel disappointed

I haven't finished it yet but so far I LOVE it. Love the storyline and the characters. Perhaps because I'm only part way through, it hasn't seemed like there have been many side quests like the last Aveyonds. Are there more to come or am I just missing on triggering them?

There's definitely more to come

Excellent news...just about to go back to playing it! (I have been trying to savour it and keep from finishing it all at once!). Once last question-I've read on here that the Orb series could extend out to a number of chapters (maybe even 6?). Are the plans for the chapters to always center around the same characters (so really Mel as the main) or would they change viewpoints?

Amanda announced that AV3, 4 and 5 will be a trilogy.
So yes you can say that it will have 6 parts (2 for each game)

At this point, we don't know much yet. What we do know is that originally, before the idea of chapters was introduced, AVs 3, 4 and 5 were meant to be a trilogy. So yes, it's entirely possible that Mel will be the center point of the series, but who knows what will happen next?