Game Plug The Cursed Crusade

[So What If I Am A Goblin?]

I recently played a game called the Cursed Crusade, a game that I found enjoyable to play. This is a potential plug and free advertisement for the company who made it, and I'll detail what I thought about it for now.

There are two playable characters in this game, Denz De Bayle, a Templar seeking his father in order to reclaim his lands from his villainous uncle, and Esteban Noviembre, a spainiard cur who hooks up with Denz after the Templar saved his life. Both characters suffer from a 'curse', that is hereditary. Somewhere along their family line, their forefathers committed a sin so grievous, that god damned their line to hell. No known way of redemption is known, and the characters desperately seek a method of freeing themselves.

The year is 1204, during the Fourth Crusade. Denz De Bayle Joins the crusade to seek his father in the Holy Land, seeing the opportunity to get a free board and pass to the lands where his father dwells. However, along the way, he witnesses what the Crusade ultimately becomes, a mercenary army, the once holy nature of the Crusade turns into an army of the devil. You follow both characters through the story as the struggle with the morality of their situation and their suffering of the curse, while granting them boons, is not without its dangers. Fighting the agents of Satan to plotting against the scheming High Baron Monteferrat, to sacking Christian Cities, and ultimately going balls out against death himself.

The major events of the game, the dates, names, and even cities regale themselves to historical accuracy. Denz and Estebon are fictional, and the curse itself is fictional, of course, but certainly, the Fourth Crusade did sack Constantinople, and installed a Latin kingdom to rule the region, and did give 3/8ths of the land to Venice to repay the Crusader debt.

However, despite a well thought out story line (and a few problems even there), the game functions as a hak and slash and a combo button smasher, the better your combos, the quicker your opponents die. Often times, animations don't work, but the game gratefully compensates by correcting character positioning after opening a gate. Other frustrating features being that subtitles are a must, often times when you hear a character speaking to you, you move a little, and suddenly the sound is gone, instead of fading away. The sound radius of the game is either all in or non-existent, and if you miss vital instructions, you are forced to repeat the level or attempt to figure out what you missed if you lacked subtitles for the moment.

The game tried for realism, armor degrades over time, as do your weapons, and you are often forced to pick up weapons off the field of battle as they break, and unfortunately, you cannot equip new armor once the one you wear totally breaks. The game allows you to upgrade the armor to compensate for slowly, increasingly powerful foes, but wise tactics and choice of weapon often win the battle. A mace is much more suitable for destroying the armor off the opponent, and then switching to a sword to finish him off is advised.


I'd give the game an 8 for originality, seven for game play, and a 7.5 for over all satisfaction.


I dunno why I wrote this, I was bored I guess. <3

[TheBarmaid]

Maybe when it's not 30 quid on steam

[Lucky99]

Assuming that you have a generic gamepad (those that look like ps2 controllers).
You must configure/test your controller opening the "x360ce.exe" which is inside the folder with almost the same name (don't ask how to do it, use google). After that close that program and place all the files in that folder (included the .exe file, the xinput1_3.dll and all others) and put them all in your main directory "The cursed Crusade" (where the "TCC.exe" is located).

Start the game and there you have! (it should be working), same as a 360 controller plugged in.