Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms - Softpedia Review

Softpedia gave Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms a 7/10 in a new review this week.

The first chapter of Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is pretty solid, offering a great mix of narrative and combat, but the following ones seem to favor combat over substance, which is a bit of a disappointment.

The combat system has a lot of potential, what with the synergies between all the characters you can switch on the fly and the ability to teleport to an alternate dimension, but unfortunately, at the mechanical level, the controls simply don't feel fluid enough.

For the most part, combat feels very static, you're healing and whittling down enemy health bars while standing in place, and the many skills at your disposal don't seem very balanced.

This, together with the many areas that feel simply incomplete, mars the overall experience, taking it down considerably. The fact that it's not very long to begin with further drives down its value.