This PC Game “The Secret of the Silver Blades” is a 1990’s rendition of most role-playing games out there. The game play is fair, while the graphics I find to be distracting, objects are hard to even tell what they are. The game is also a lot slower to advance in levels than most characters can advance through about 17 levels with spells, magic, thieving and so on, not unlike most RPGs. “The Secret of the Silver Blades” is also part of a series of games each building upon each other.
The game I find has been well outmatched since its production in 1990, and on my personal account I find there to be a lot better games to play out there. The view on the game play is also on a 2d-3d view like old arcade games, which I have never liked.
Some positive things about this game though, are that there is a lot of statistics and advancements to be made through out the game making the game entertaining to play. I know many people who purchased or played this game when it came out loved it, because not many RPGs of its nature were in gaming circulation, but as I said before it is out of date, and surpassed. Games such as Might
and Magic have well evolved on “The Secret of the silver Blades” entrepreneurship of RPGs as a whole.
Another point I would like to make about this game is the lack of a detailed story. What I mean by this is the story line is very straightforward. You have to assemble a team to venture through the mountains of Verdigris to get to Dreadlord’s castle. While on your travel to the castle you advance your characters through battles and fights in order to later conquer Dreadlord himself.
Another downside to this game is the amount of reading of the story you have to do, like most older games there is little video interpretation and more active readings at each scene making it, at least to me, slow and redundant. “A valley resolves itself below you. At its base is a small walled town. Higher up is a mind shaft surrounded by ruins. The top of the valley is filled with a shimmering Glacier” this quote form Silver Blades is describing a part of the game at which you first enter upon this town, due to its lack of distinguished graphics the game must elaborate each picture in order for you to tell what is going on…
My conclusion on this review is that the game on a whole is worth playing, but hard to get really into, on a scale for 1-10 I would probably give it a 9 for when it came out, and a 4 or 5 as compared to today’s games.
