By improving the guilds, your heroes expand their personal skills, making them more formidable in battle. Heroes are recruited by guilds that correspond to their particular skills, such as Mage's Towers or Rogue's Dens. To accomplish this task across the sixteen single player missions, you'll need to rely on heroes to do your dirty work, as you're too valuable to be lost on the field of battle. Your task is to liberate the world from this infernal presence and its minions, restoring the rule of your family. As an advisor informs you, you are the lone descendant of the royal bloodline, meaning that the safety and security of the realm lands on your shoulders. Even worse, it ushered back all of the monsters and creatures that had been removed from the kingdom. Overwhelming the mages, the demon slew Leonard and the other lords of the land that dared to enter its domain. Hoping to prove worthy of the crown, Leonard and his court magicians summoned the Demonlord from Hell, who was much more dangerous than the ignorant people knew. In fact, the kings did their job so well that the last king, Leonard, was left without a foe to prove himself against, a rival to conquer or a threat to his prosperity. Majesty 2 is a blast to play, but it’s tough as nails.Set in a land called Ardania, Majesty 2 tells the tale of a line of kings who united the land and cleansed it of all evil. Wanting to just power through a level or two, I even searched for cheat codes. I hopped into the options menu to dial down the challenge level, but there is no “Easy / Medium/ Hard” slider. However, I feel that Majesty 2 exhibits some huge jumps in difficulty during the campaign section and I was only able to complete about 1/2 the campaign. As I said earlier, I’m not very skilled with RTS games. My biggest issue with Majesty 2 is its difficultly. However, for a PC game, I like to play something with a little more gusto even in my RTS / sim titles. In fact, these types of graphics work great for people with laptops. They aren’t game-breakingly bad by any stretch of the imagination. There are some neat physics involved when heroes get chucked across the screen by ogres or when your buildings collapse, but all in all, they’re pretty low-end. Graphically, it’s not much of a step up from Warcraft 3. Majesty 2 is not without it’s faults, however. Donkeys will deliver goods and cash from into your marketplace, however, donkeys are easily killed and the trade routes are expensive to build. If you sell potions, amulets, upgraded armor, and weapons, your heroes will spend the money they earned from slaying beasts and collecting bounties in your stores.įinally, you can make a lot of cash fast by setting up a trade route in a more experienced economy. You can also set up a marketplace and blacksmith for your heroes to visit. I’ve lost probably two dozen tax collectors to the little vermin before they could reach my castle doors to drop off their money. The only problem is, your tax collectors must be very tasty because it feels like the rats are constantly nomming on their ankles. This method is useful to have a small trickle of income at all times. Tax collectors go door to door and take a tribute from all the buildings. There are a few different ways to get money back into the economy. Paying out cash to your heroes will drain the kingdom’s coffers pretty quickly when you realize you’re surrounded on all sides by the enemy. but because I enticed them with 300 bucks. They will also fight in self-defense.Ī small group of heroes attacking this Minotaur's home. Since monsters drop cash, heroes will attack rats and skeletons if they’re running low on funds. That’s not to say they’ll never attack roaming enemies within your territory. It’s truly a fascinating and addictive way of playing. To explore new map areas, you can pay rangers to head out into the wilderness and report back to you. You can do the same to conquer enemy bases by putting a large sum bounty on the enemy’s fortress. Heroes who are low on cash will see the reward, and go where the money is. For example, if you want to have your villagers to build you a new statue in yourlikeness without being bothered by roaming monsters, you can put up a protection award on the construction. To tempt your heroes into seeing things your way, you place bounties and rewards on the objectives you want to conquer. Since the heroes have a mind of their own, they care very little about the overall defense of your property unless it’s financially beneficial to them. You can keep an eye on your heroes' health and skill level in the top right of the screen. Leveling up your heroes, like Gindilf here, is addictive.
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