Customer Reviews

Loki

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

Firstly, in response to the review by "Andy", if you had bothered to read the manual you would know that the first time through, "Mortal" difficulty, you will not get THAT great of equipment, but on the higher ones you will...It's like Diablo 2 is, you don't get the best stuff to drop in the lower difficulties do you?

Secondly, in response to the review by "B@DRS", I've been installing the patches, including the latest released on Nov 20, and it never asked me for a CD Key.

Thirdly, i would like to say that if you like a Diablo style RPG then this is a game for you...there are lots of weaker enemies, like in Diablo, with a few strong ones. Yes it is a bit of a grind, since you really need to get your level up fast, but what RPG isn't? Final Fantasy is like this, so is Diablo 2, and Neverwinter Nights....

This is a Diablo style RPG which ran fine on my system. It is very large, very linear with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of monsters. Monsters are very repititious and you gain very little defeating them. I finished the 1st (of 4) countries, accumulated over 2,000,000 gold and bought NOTHING. The sole merchant sells only what you sold him. In the 20-30 hours to finish this one country I acquired dozens and dozens of the same (useless) items and ONE unique item which itself wasn't very good. All in all a LOT of work for very little gain. If you like to battle monsters for the sake of battle only then this game is for you. If you like to have your character progress and improve in true RPG fashion this is NOT the game for you.

I myself find none of this game boring at all. You have to begin the second level to start getting the good stuff. As for a CD Key, if you bought it in the U.S you do not need one. Give the game a chance. Go to the Loki Forum for any problems, they help with all of them

Maggie

This was a replacement copy, for my old scratched up one. Yeah a few glitches, name one that doesn't have them. I love it, I just enjoy hack and slash, D&D type games. Didn't like Diablo, but highly enjoy this one.


JRM

Loki is not a particularly original game. It is alot like Diablo 2 or Titan quest. There are lots of things to like about Loki. The action is fast paced. The graphics are also wonderful. The drive to improve your powers and equipment pushes you like in other action RPGS. Its true there aren't many good items to buy. However one can use ones money to improve items at the blacksmiths (you also need to money to break down items so that you have the materials to reinforce with) or to buy magic items to sacrafice to improve ones powers. I found I always could find a use for it.
However, Loki has some downsides. For one whoever wrote down the minimum requirements was VERY optimistic. The load sequences took forever on my old computer. On my new computer it runs well except when I summon creatures. So I just redistributed my points and play without summoned creatures. Also the character balance leaves something to wish for. If you're going to play the Aztec shaman, you'd better be pretty frustration resistant. The Mage and Barbarian both worked well for me. My biggest gripe with the game is that it should have been shorter and sweeter. You see the almost identical levels with almost identical monster 3 times in a row. Two times would have been fine and would have cut 50 hours down to 35 hours, but would have been much more fun.

This is the first game of this kind I have played. I spent many hours playing this game and then it messed up just as I was about to complete the last quest in Mortal mode. I refuse to play through it all again in hopes that I could make it through this time. My boyfriend also had multiple problems with this game and had to start over and rebuild his character several times. We also had issues with the game frequently crashing. I really enjoyed the game itself, especially that I was able to play with him over our LAN, but the glitches ruined it for me. I am looking for a similar game (simple, point and click, that can be played via LAN) without all these problems.

I have to agree that you fight and fight and fight alot to gain almost nothing in this game. Unlike all other diablo clones I've played it feels like your not accomplishing anything when leveling your character. It makes it feel like work rather than play and when you get to spend skill points hard earned as they are they don't do much... yeah another 1% to damage yippy... Only the mages main skills seem to upgrade decently though still not enough. I found diablo and titan quest way more fun, this lacked so much I didn't play it much before shelving it.

This game is none other then Diablo 2 in 3d that means its an amazing lan game without having to throw up from the sprite graphics.For 2007 it has decent bump mapping on the characters and pretty good lighting. Overall this a great product and at 4.00 you can host your own lan for under 50 bucks.

I bought this game expecting a Diablo style hack & slash game. Which is sort of what Loki is like. The skill system is total garbage. Most of the skills are useless and the ones that might have been useful don't work well. For example there is a weapon enchant buff which causes your weapon to do extra elemental damage. Buff only lasts 30 seconds so you have to keep recasting.

The hotkeys are broken as well. You use the numbers on top of the keyboard to select the spell that will be attached to your right click. Potion keys are the number pad meaning you had to take your hand off the mouse to use a potion or move your left hand over to do it. Keys can be changed from what I looked but since I'm done dealing with the game after having only played for 2 days I didn't bother fussing with it.

The scaling of the spells with points is very weak. None of the spells seem to be able to hit more than one target. I played as a Norse character and my most used spell was charge because it would seem to hit 2-3 mobs as a fluke I'm sure they didn't intend it that way. I would get stuck on what would run into invisible rocks or something where I would have to walk around a bit to be able to attack certain mobs.

The worst part is the constant crashing. I'm running Vista so not sure if that's part of the issue but since the game seems to have been a flop the company doesn't seem to support it any more. There is a patch out but it didn't fix bugs I had looked up on their forum that had been known about for several patch builds.

The game seems to save every time you go to a loading screen. Which I think is part of the reason the load times seem kind of long. Though loading is when most of the crashes I have experienced have happened. Thankfully I didn't lose my spot most of the times. Last time though I used the teleport to go back to town because my small inventory was full and I couldn't pick up some of the good loot that had just fallen (orange items, so far the best I've seen) and the game crashed right as I clicked load. Didn't even get to the save state so I lost all the items that mobs had dropped as well as the time to clear a bunch of the annoying mobs that were in that area.

Some of the fights can be rough since potions work like in Diablo. They aren't instant refills but heal over time and have cool downs. So there is a skill where you can summon 2 wolves to eat the corpses of the mobs you've killed which in turn heals you. This is one of the few useful skills in the game.... Problem is every time the wolves are out the game will lock up.

Another issue that makes skills useless is they all have cool downs. ALL of them. There's no exception to this. So there are no skills you can just spam like in Diablo you have to keep switching between spells. Which is why I only use charge and regular attack.

Another issue in the game is the vendors and gold and the way you gain skill points. Instead of getting points per lvl like in a REAL hack & slash game you have a secondary exp bar. 25% of your gained exp goes to this reputation bar if you want to call it that. So that makes you lvl slower. I'm at the point now where I'm getting items that require me to be 5 lvls higher but because of this nerf to exp I am not high enough to wear them. The skill system has 3 tabs each for a different god. You can give magical items up in town as offerings to the gods to gain skill exp with the selected god. But you have to do each magical item individually so if you have 50 magic items in your bag your going to be doing a lot of clicking.

At least with vendoring you can just right click all the stuff you want to sell in your inventory and it will put it in your kiosk then you just have to click sell all. But this offering system is just dumb.

Despite the skills being useless and the wolf summoning spell crashing the game I would have kept playing this game since I got tired of paying for World of Warcraft. But the crashing between loading is just getting tiresome. I expect a game I paid for to at least work..... Even if it was only $8 Im sure it was around $40 when it was released and those poor people who bought it got robbed.

So if your looking for something to tide you over for the next 3-4 years till diablo3 is out.... Keep looking.

Im sick of people complaining the game is too hard. Its almost an exact clone of diablo, but the easy mode is more like diablos nightmare mode (except you start from scratch). Personally, i think its good to have a challenging game that makes you think about what to do!