King's Bounty: The Legend Review
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The story itself is a bit on the shifty side and easily the worst part of the game. The premise involves a kingdom that once had its glory days but now things aren't so great. The King, desperate for a hero to arrive looks to you to help rid the recent surge of evil doers and monsters that have been plaguing the land. But its more than that, you will need to discover the source of the recent evil and help the kingdom reclaim its former glory. Oh, and there is some sort of nonsense about the King's daughter being from the heavens. By the way, the game also has several glaring typos in the text that you read
Interestingly enough, as you venture out in your travels, you will begin picking up soldiers that act sort of as a mini-mercenary army. These disposable fighters are directly related to the game and when brought into battle they will die and you will need to find and hire additional forces in order to continue on. Now, in an ironic twist, there is only a certain amount of fighters to be found in any given location - meaning, you can literally run out of support staff in a rough part of the world and really be up the creek. Now you do have the ability to avoid combat, as you will see roaming baddies and can identify them by right clicking and identifying if they are something you want to tangle with or not. And to make matters worse, even if you flee a battle you get involved in that you know you can't win, you can count on some casualties as hired muscle will also get killed in the retreat.
