2009
08.10

Quick Review: Eschalon Book I-Demo

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Eschalon Book I is an old school role-playing game (RPG) developed by Basilisk Games. This game is available in 3 systems, Win, Mac, and Linux. The style of how the game played will be familiar for those who enjoy the Advance Dungeon & Dragon (AD&D) era of RPG games just like in 80’s-90’s. As Basilisk put it: An epic adventure that you must face alone…a single-player RPG carefully designed to feel like the great old school RPGs of the past such as Ultima®, Might & Magic®, and Wizardry®

So, I downloaded the demo of the game since the concept and the screenshot looked interesting. I’m one of those old school gamers who prefers substance over style, so the overall graphic style presentation for the game is sufficient for me. IMHO, the graphic and the score were fantastic for this kind of independent RPG games, well done!

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Main Menu

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Creating my Ranger

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Chatting with the town guard

I tested this game in my MacBook Pro, and for some reason after few hours of playing, the noise of the fan increased gradually. Probably because of the graphic in the game that was rendered using OpenGL which require quite lots of rendering muscle. Also happens a few time, which when I play the game in fullscreen then I want to quit, the game “crashed” the system, which left the display just blank (black). Wonder why…

Overall, I like this game, it felt not rush and quite well done. Looking forward for the next book of Eschalon, which due in 2009.

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  1. Gio Suryo said: 2009.08.10 21:54

    Mate!

    I love the new look! Anyway, the isometric view reminds me of some other RPG. It’s been a long time since I played any…

    Does the demo restrict you in any way? Would love to know firsthand before I try playing this. Oh and save the demo installer for me will you?

  2. nuprata said: 2009.08.13 05:14

    Yo mate!
    Yes, this game really looks like those old style RPG we used to play long-long time ago. Overall, the presentation won’t dissapoint (graphics, music score, story), I just wish the resolution can be better than 800×600, it looks really small when playing this game in windowed mode.
    The only restriction I found so far was the limit of area where we can venture, other than that seems none. It doesn’t really feel like a demo, which is a good thing :) My advice to you when playing this game (demo), is to develop your character carefully. This game is not like Oblivion or similar games where there’s this scalable difficulty. Wrong point spent could mean disaster :)
    Just download and try mate! Cheers ;)

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