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  1. The Woods of Torbin Reviews
    1. Jeff Lait
      1. About the Review
      2. Synopsis
      3. Cool Things
      4. Drawbacks

The Woods of Torbin Reviews


Jeff Lait


About the Review


Version 002 of The Woods of Torbin was examined.

Windows XP was the host platform.

Synopsis


I really like the style of the graphics. The creatures are nice and iconic, easily distinguished at a glance. Keep it clean like this, IMO.

Cool Things


The little path of arrows when you target something showing the attack path is really cool.

Drawbacks


Starvation may be a bit to quick. I got lost from the initial instructions, and didn’t find the wizard. By the time I had explored the starting map fully, I starved to death. That seems a bit extreme.

How do you tell what you are wearing? I picked up various stuff, tried equipping, but there seemed no way to see what I had currently equipped? (Answer: Use ‘E’. This binding can be found by pressing ‘?’.)

I suffered immensely from the autochat. Because everyone is bouncing around randomly, one has a little minigame of trying to get beside them for Chat. Then another mini game of whether or not it will prompt for a direction. If you really want an RPG roguelike with lots of Chat, I strongly recommend making bump into friendlies do a chat. This also removes the silly “Do you really want to attack?” messages. Make a special attack command that overrides chatting for those rare times the user would answer yes.

Trying to descend to DLevel 2 hung the machine with 0% CPU. I presume something bad happened in level generation?