LoA II: The Song of Trees - Announced

[HiddenX]

The dungeon crawler Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees has been announced:

Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees

Overview:
Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees is a classic western RPG inspired by the games from the 90s like Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series and others. Using the classic first-person perspective, over grid movement, turn-based system to travel in an open world with fast travel options and a quick combat.

You lead a party of 7 adventurers, manually assembled or pre-made, on an epic adventure to fight the evil which lurks in Amberland. It's light, fairy tale, epic, heroic and slightly humorous. It does not take tons of hours to complete or require an endless grind to progress. Basically, it's a love letter from the 90s, the golden era of RPGs.

Notable features:

• First person perspective, 90 degree rotation, over grid movement (like in the 90s).
• Turn-based (both combat and exploration).
• Party-based (7 heroes, either predefined or manually assembled upon new game).
• Fast paced combat, especially blazing fast against much weaker enemies.
• Quick travel to reduce backtracking.
• Easy inventory management with separate personal equipment encumbrance system and an infinite magic bag of carrying for items not equipped at the moment.
• Open world with a big overworld to explore.
• Quests (including both main storyline quests and side quests).
• Rich world lore (spanning between all games of the series, but no knowledge of prior games required).

Technicalities:
The game was designed to look and feel like one of the old games while working flawlessly on modern machines, especially on very high resolutions. It has very low hardware requirements and should run on even very old machines.

About the relation to the prequel:
The Legends of Amberland titles can be played in any order you wish. They share the same world and lore (historical events) but each has a separate and self-contained story. There might be some mild references to events in the previous titles of the series, but more like a flavor, so it does not hinder the ability to play those in any order.

More information.

 

[Kordanor]

Had a lot of fun with Legends of Amberland 1, and looking forward to that one as well.
Cool, leightweight MM3/4/5-like game, though I do wish a bit more depth in combat for the 2nd one

 

[Irien]

Agree 100% with Kordanor, and I'd add that a few more puzzles/traps in dungeons wouldn't go amiss either, to fully capture MM3/4/5 feel.
Looking forward to this one.

 

[Moorkh]

Good, good.
Strange, though - I'd have sworn I had known about this sequel for a while already. Checking, I actually already have it on my Steam wishlist. Hmm...

 

[mercy]

Great pixel graphics! UI is not soo good. Monsters don't even have attack "animation" frames, at least in the first game. Music is a repulsive disgrace of the old times.. I would have fired its creator Christopher Loza in no time after listening.

 

[Kordanor]

Not sure what you mean regarding the music. Actually the author of the game also asked around and checked with players which music they see as most fitting.

I think this track is actually reflecting very much what the music sounded like back then. The first half could very well have been in some Might and Magic title.
It then picks up speed, maybe becomes a bit more modern and a bit more "nintendo". But I think it still fits well. Also keep in mind this is the theme for the main menu and not background music while roaming the world.