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Character creation offers four races (humans, elves, orcs, and dwarves), four fighting styles (one-handed and shield, dual wielding, polearms and heavy weapons) and a bunch of different character backgrounds. Every race has a different starting city, so as a neutrally aligned human with sword and board I start in the city of Goldport, though elves start in Thilaris, for example. There are three alignments too—good, neutral, and evil—which are consequential right out of the gate because my choice determines who I can recruit as companions.
Be that as it may, my most pressing concern is the getting of loot and levelling up, so after picking up a bunch of quests in Goldport, out into the open world I go. Alaloth’s world is presented as a world map with many dozens of locations I can enter. Time passes as I move around on this map, and there are enemies I can either fight or evade. When I fight I’m thrown into a small arena against a handful of enemies, and these fights usually take around a minute to complete. The world is rich with landmarks: there’s a lot to see and do despite each landmark, city or locale being relatively small and self-contained.
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Fighting areas are ranked according to their difficulty, and for a long time I was struggling to complete even the first one, Raven’s Hideout, due to the aforementioned problem of being mercilessly ganked. It turns out that recruiting companions is basically essential—unless you’re a genius gamer—and finding these companions is a matter of exploring Plamen, talking to everyone, and hoping the companion I encounter shares my placement on the good / bad / neutral plane.
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Eventually I find Iln-Ashah, a powerful guy with a cool spell that sends mini-hurricanes hurtling into the combat fray. As soon as I’ve met Iln-Ashah, the Raven’s Hideout turns into a cakewalk, as do the following three combat areas I tackle in ranked order. But finding him was a bit of a hassle, and in the true spirit of both old school CRPGs and Soulsbornes, I’m not given much in-game direction on how to find a good companion (nor whether it needs to be night or day for him to appear).
Once I’ve found a companion it’s possible to have a second player command him in local co-operative play, which would be really fun if not for the fact that, in its early hours at least, Alaloth isn’t super combat heavy. A lot of time is spent just exploring and completing quests which, while they don’t give me XP, usually fill my coffers with gold and loot. It’s clear a lot of effort has been put into worldbuilding in Alaloth, though most of it is lost on me, who—perhaps incorrectly—approached this game as a loot game. Itisa loot game, but it’s a slow, complex and demanding one.
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