Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

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Dungeon & Dragons: Dark Alliance
And so, another beloved series of hack-and-slashes has been slain on the battlefield… thanks to the unlimited power that the greedy dirtbags who run the company have.
Genre(s): Action Role-Playing Hack and Slash Platform(s): PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X & S Microsoft Windows Release: 21 June 2021 Developer(s): Tuque Games Publisher(s): Wizard of the Coast Country: Canada

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a third-person action role-playing game published by Wizards of the Coast and developed by its subsidiary Tuque Games. Based on the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing system, the title of the game alludes to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, although its story and gameplay are not related to those earlier titles. The game was released in June 2021 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

Why It Sucks

1. For starters, the concept of looter hack and slash games with D&D character is interesting, but the execution is very horrible due to this issue, like gameplay, graphics, design, story, etc. (See below)
2. The story is really unfaithful to the original D&D lore.
3. Outdated graphics (except the cutscenes) that looks like the PS3/Xbox 360 games with terrible character model and the environment is absolutely mess.
   • Speaking of the character model, the design of the characters is questionable; some model are okay, other are range from bad to awful.
   • The armor design is also bad, the worst offender is the archer armor is resemble to boogers.
4. The level design of the dungeon is absolutely atrocious, you can easy getting lose due to lack of the map.
5. Repetitive gameplay, you just killing the enemies and bosses and you finish the game, point A to point B. The problem is the dungeon is absolutely the same aside of different level design and difficulty.
6. Lack of the enemy type, in fact the enemy has so many variations, it's actually the same.
7. The AI both the enemies and allies is absolutely broken. You can just run past through the entire game without hitting it.
8. The game is rampant of bug and glitches making the gameplay literally unplayable, like having the armor are disappear or unable to reviving the allies.
9. Poor hit-detection that can be missed the enemies and sometimes broken.
10. The upgradeable armor is pointless, no matter what difficulty your choice is actually the same damage.
11. The progression system is technically broken and utterly mess, where's some player got better score than the other players.
12. The Multiplayer server is really broken that constantly crashes or lagging every time you're playing.
13. Difficulty Spike: There's many time if you play on harder difficulty level, the game is somehow easier, but some dungeon is really hard, specifically for the bosses, where the bosses has so many damage that can damage you in the one hit due to how broken is.
14. While the music is okay at best is very generic.
15. Bad audio-mixing for voice chat.
16. The ending is absolutely the worst ending in the D&D history, and because how this game has no plot is, the story is absolutely confusing.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The cutscenes is really great, in fact, this is the best part of the game.
2. The Multiplayer can been sometimes fun if the server not being broken.
3. Some character design is absolutely good, like the Dragon and Volgara.
4. The music is okay to enjoy if the music are generic.

Reception

D&D: Dark Alliance is gave mixed to negative reception by critics and generally negative for users. Criticism for repetitive and terrible gameplay, poor graphics, bugs and glitches, poor story, and several difficulty spike.

Angry Joe gave the game a 2/10

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