I mainly bought this because I absolutely loved the developers' previous game "Tower of Time". This one here... not so much. It really feels like a step back in so many ways.

Tower of Time was for me the perfect combination of exploration, fights and a riddle here and there. It was fun exploring the tower, a huge semi-3D environment, and engage in the fights that happened in separated arenas.

Here in Dark Envoy, exploration is... just no fun. The levels feel monotonous and boring, no interesting details to look at, just flat and seemingly being shaped by the same cookie cutter tool. It's neither interesting nor rewarding, you cannot revisit any levels, and you probably would not even want to as there is not anything interesting to find there anyway.

Technically the game may be fine, you have more choices regarding your classes, spells, and specializations, but more choices do not necessarily mean more fun, the fixed classes in ToT were completely fine.

Having the fights happen in the maps themselves does not make it more interesting than in ToT, rather the opposite. In ToT the arenas were well crafted, and the whole fight felt like a puzzle to be solved (and could be solved with many different character combinations and approaches). Here, I just don't feel it. The fights just feel uninspired, almost no interesting bosses or mechanics - this being the spiritual successor of ToT, it's incomprehensible. Also, the final fight is just a joke and compared to the epicness that the final fight in ToT was just lackluster.

Finally, the story. The storytelling in ToT was superb for my taste, I liked the graphical style of the cutscenes, the narration, everything. I don't have any feeling not even of greatness in Dark Envoy. It's just, disappointing.

All in all, coming from the same developer, they must have taken a wrong turn somewhere, and it also shows in the sales numbers compared to ToT. I wish they would make a real successor of ToT, not whatever this game here is supposed to be. Makes me quite sad that it turned out that way, as I really had high hopes.

It's quite fun, not a lot else to say.

I was having a good time playing it but the constant freezes and losing hours of time makes it not worth it. Once they patch the game I will come back and play it but every time it freezes I have restart my machine because when its "minimized" it still shows the cursor for the screen and I am unable to click on anything but the start menu.