Elven Legacy: fun fantasy SRPG

[fatgamecat]

I'd like to direct your attention to Elven Legacy, an SRPG for the PC. It's a very fun game and it has a nice challenge level if you go for the best rank on hard difficulty. It's also on sale for a couple days and you can get the game plus all its expansions for $15 - 77 missions and 4 campaigns. Definitely worth the impulse buy if you love SRPGs and fantasy based tactical combat. Yes it is a true SRPG where units persist through combat, grow in experience, and you have to keep everyone alive.

On sale here: http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-ELC/elven-legacy-collection-bundle

Guide: http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/952342-elven-legacy/faqs/59985

My review: http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/952342-elven-legacy/reviews/review-141079

Gamespot review: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/elvenlegacy/review.html

If you give it a try let me know what you think of it. I really enjoyed it myself.

Edited July 23, 2010 by mjemirzian

[Narga_Rocks]

Glancing at the images on gamefaqs it looks more like an RTS. I love those, too, of course, but just sayin'. I'd define SRPG as giving individual commands to each unit and then they go and do something. Think Bahamut's Lagoon, Fire Emblem, FFTA (not sure about the other FFTs, but I'd assume so), Shining Force (also a Gamecube game called Gladius, if anyone has ever heard of it). That type of thing. And in each of those, you can only issue commands when it is their "turn", and turns are either set up where you make all your units go, then the enemy, then you, or like Shining Force and FFTA where the order is based on speed of the units.

Is it more Warcraft (not WoW) or Fire Emblem?

Edited July 23, 2010 by Narga_Rocks

[fatgamecat]

Glancing at the images on gamefaqs it looks more like an RTS. I love those, too, of course, but just sayin'. I'd define SRPG as giving individual commands to each unit and then they go and do something. Think Bahamut's Lagoon, Fire Emblem, FFTA (not sure about the other FFTs, but I'd assume so), Shining Force (also a Gamecube game called Gladius, if anyone has ever heard of it). That type of thing. And in each of those, you can only issue commands when it is their "turn", and turns are either set up where you make all your units go, then the enemy, then you, or like Shining Force and FFTA where the order is based on speed of the units.

Is it more Warcraft (not WoW) or Fire Emblem?

It's definitely a turn based tactical SRPG. I'd hope I'd be able to tell the difference.

Here's a longer youtube vid.

You can go into the options and speed up the animations to almost instant.

[Narga_Rocks]

I was looking at images like this

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/952342-elven-legacy/images/gs_screen-3

and this

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/952342-elven-legacy/images/gs_screen-19

and it looked more akin to RTS than SRPG, but the video (at least the first bit that I actually looked at) you posted certainly shows it to be an SRPG.