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One of the most interesting features in Seal of Evil is the 'Making Things' system - an item creation system founded in the five elements. Each enemy has different elemental strengths and weaknesses and pausing to adjust skills or equipment to best suit is quite rewarding. Understanding and using the five elements system is the key to success and allows the player to implement a variety of strategies. There are five character classes: Paladin, Assassin, Witch, Beastman and Wizard, each with different skills and a balance of close melee and ranged magic in the party seems desirable. Combat is fast-paced and often against numbers of enemies but the pause-and-play system allows the opportunity to change skills and equipment and direct each party member.

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Object Software promises that dialogue choices and the outcome of side-quests will change the direction and lead to one of several different endings.Īs with any action-RPG, combat is a key part of the game.

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There is a full dialogue system and although the quests in the early part of the game I saw were mostly of the Fetch or Kill variety, there was a hint that different responses may impact the game. Seal of Evil is more story-driven than many action-RPGs and there is a large number of NPCs to discover and talk to as you explore the discrete maps that make up the world. It also forms the basis of the 'Making Things' item creation feature, which I'll touch on later. All up, it's an appealing theme and adds strategic depth to item and skill choices in combat. For instance, the skill Inferno receives a bonus if a fire-weapon is equipped while Poison Wave is wood-based. It's also used to create bonuses and immunities in attack and defence, skills, weapons and armour. This system forms the major character attributes and drives the secondary derived attributes - Metal affects Attack and Wood affects HP and health recovery, for example. This is used to create a fairly complex rock-paper-scissors balance relationship that runs through almost every aspect of Seal of Evil: Metal promotes Water, Water promotes Wood, Wood promotes Fire, Fire promotes Earth and Earth promotes Metal Metal restricts Wood, Wood restricts Earth and so on. The cornerstone of Seal of Evil is a consistent theme of five traditional natural elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth. For those who still appreciate 2D isometric RPGs and crave a fascinating change of setting, Seal of Evil is an interesting game. Although semi-historical, a number of fantasy elements such as magic are used to flesh-out an otherwise genuine Chinese setting. Seal of Evil is an isometric 2D hack-and-slash action-RPG, although a number of elements add considerable depth such as dialogue options, item creation, a complex elemental system and multiple endings. There's no initial character choice or creation but other characters can join or be swapped into the party as the game progresses. In Seal of Evil, the player leads a small party of up to three characters, starting with the Witch Lan Wei and the Beastman, Lian Hu.

Playing his daughter Lan Wei, the player sets out to Qin's central plains to discover the truth about his death. Baiyue leader Lan Xiong desperately holds the Qin invasion off but many years later, dies mysteriously. Seal of Evil explores a time before this, with the Qin Empire attacking the Baiyue people of southwest China. In the game Prince of Qin, the Prince suspects foul play and defying the order, sets out to discover the betrayal. According to history, Crown Prince Fu Su was betrayed by a false Imperial decree to kill himself, which he duly obeyed. Prince of Qin explored an alternative historical timeline around 2200 years ago in the Qin Dynasty.

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I've spent a few hours with some preview code from UK publisher GMX Media, so read on if you'd like to escape Tolkien-esque fantasy worlds and explore ancient China. Refining many of the elements from the underrated Prince of Qin, Seal of Evil combines a fairly deep party-based action-RPG with an authentic semi-historical Chinese setting. Seal of Evil is a prequel to Chinese developer Object Software's Prince of Qin from 2002.

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