I only have played the game for a couple of hours, so take my impressions with a grain of salt.
The setting appears to be reminiscent of Arcanum: a world of fantasy with some technology thrown in. There are fire weapons, for example.
Some game mechanics are somewhat similar to Fallout and Arcanum, too. The character generation system is classless and uses a point buy system for atributes and skills. Aside from the usual fight- and magic-related skills, there is and "oratory" skill that gives you more options in dialogues, a "merchant" skill that cheapens the prices of items, a "steal" skill, etc... There aren't any stealth-related abilities, however.
Weapons in the game degrade with time. You can also combine some items to form others. There are recipes with the viable combinations spread through the game, but you are free to experiment.
I dont't know if you can have followers. I haven't encountered anyone so far that I could enlist.
The Spanish translation and manual are terrible, i hope the english ones will be better. It is difficult to know what some spells do in game terms. There is in-game help in form of tooltips, but sometimes they are as confusing as the manual.
The dialoge is totally inane and flavorless, maybe the translators's fault. The very few quests i have completed were mainly of the fed-ex type. Maybe it gets better later on.
Maybe it is not such a good idea to translate Spanish version. According to this post it is terrible
The Spanish translation and manual are terrible, i hope the english ones will be better. It is difficult to know what some spells do in game terms. There is in-game help in form of tooltips, but sometimes they are as confusing as the manual.
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=18458
I don`t think so. There are many articles with developers in RPG Codex database.I tried to contact with the devs of Goldenland too. But, there was no answer from them. I think none of them knows English.
It was released in Russia in December of 2003, and is currently being ported for a US release. All the menus and text boxes have been translated, but the actual voices are speaking Russian. The folks doing these snippets of dialogue sound pretty good, but for all I know could be the William Shatners of St. Petersburg.
you can see that it was pretty much completely translated.
The good news - I managed to find Czech version of the Game via my friend in Czech Republic. It is quite cheap there, some 6-8 EUR and he has already sent the package. I expect to receive it till this weekend. Will report as soon as I tried the game.
I own an English version of Heath for a long time. You can buy a used copy from time to time on ebay.co.uk. for cheap.
Here is one right now
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HEATH-PC-GAME...s_JS?hash=item4146c188db&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
Gokyabgu, if you're not buying that could you let me know as I wouldn't mind giving it a go?
Thank you
You can buy that, friend. I can't buy that right now.