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Heroes of Might & Magic III, Part One – Guest review

  04/20/2014       St. Elmo's Fire      1 Comment

As I stated previously, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 was actually the first one I played – my sister played the older ones when I was younger, but I didn’t play them myself until I decided to do this review series. Unlike the previous games, I was actually able to play it (mostly) to completion, including both expansion packs. It probably colored some of my expectations for the series; when I revisited the others, I couldn’t help but compare them to what I saw in this game. So then, how does it actually hold up?

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Heroes of Might and Magic II, Part One – Guest Review

  03/22/2014       St. Elmo's Fire      7 Comments

The second game in the series. Unfortunately, it seems like the canonical victor of the four-way war in the first game was Boring McBoringson I mean Morglin Ironfist. It turns out that not only did he ravage the new land he found himself in for his own personal glory, he also left it with a succession crisis when he finally had the decency to die of boringness.

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The Reconstruction Part 27 (Guest Review)

  02/02/2014       St. Elmo's Fire      7 Comments

Sorry for the hiatus! Farla requisitioned my computer so she could do reviewing month.

When last we left off, Ilganyag had just arrived in Fortifel after running away from Nal the first chance they got because that’s what innocent people do, right? Seriously they weren’t even wrongfully accused, they just jumped ship the moment Qualstio caught wind there might be some sort of investigation in the future maybe. Fortunately, Qualstio’s friend Metzino doesn’t seem to care. (more…)

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The Reconstruction Part 23 – “Obstructions” (Guest Review)

  12/26/2013       St. Elmo's Fire      1 Comment

I train my characters, but they’re still lagging behind on skills – I want to get the next tier of passives but the skill points aren’t very forthcoming. Fortunately, I do manage to get “Grace” for Fero, which increases his already-impressive agility to godlike levels. Someone will be getting a lot of turns.

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