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Phantasmagoria

November 9th, 2003
v3.0
Score : 1.0 horrible
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matrice
Peasant They/Them
 
This isn't a playable dmod at all.
It's a demonstration of a new monster strenght system where the monsters level up along with your own leveling up. Along this is a new system of enemy hitpoints which you receive upon killing monsters and can spend at level up (to receive more strenght/defense etc) or at a machine for the same.

There is no plot, no storyline and really nothing to do but fighting, fighting and more fighting.
To me, the monsters are way too strong this way: spending a minute on a "normal" monster (not a boss) takes all the fun out of the fight.
There's three "people" to talk to and they basically don't tell you anything new (there is no plot). Getting to the hut to talk to number three had me already using ultimate cheat as I just couldn't be bothered to spend the time continuously fighting.

The new system *sounds* interesting, however, in practice I beg all dmod writers not to use it.

As an innovation: 7 for original thinking

However as it's positioned as a dmod, I'll rate it as such and that means the endscore is very low indeed.