Warning: this piece may contain spoilers.
Note: this piece is not a walkthrough, just a light description of my experience. For a decent walkthrough, with information on items, spells, hints and how to defeat monsters, go to http://faqs.ign.com/articles/377/377230p1.html. It’s a detailed walkthrough with just about everything you need to know.
When starting the game, let the intro play(or go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iv0YY5IIkU). When you actually begin this game, the main character will talk about it to the guy on the boat (Allis Ham). He will also ask you to defeat a brigand. Through this intro, some of the gameplay features are shown. For example, sometimes the characters will move when they talk. When you skip a conversation however, it might be that they still keep moving in silence. Looks a bit weird but hey. Now the graphics of this game are not that impressive (not even for the year 2000) but there are plenty of surprising details that give Soulbringer a nice edge (like footsteps in the snow). Also the sound is (in my opinion) well worked out. For an examplesong: go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ckAXHKqVUk&feature=related . Madrigal doesn’t really look like a city (I think there are about 15 people living there in total, even less in the beginning) but the walls are nice, and the shops seem handy (allthough you can’t enter those in the beginning, you have to defeat brigands first and spend the night at Uncle Andrus’ place). I used a knife against all the brigands, and was happy to find my first bit of armour, even though it’s just a dirty, bloodstained piece of cloth. There are brigands near Andrus as well, but I didn’t defeat all of those – I killed the “normal” ones armed with a knife, but the bloke with the club but up too mean of a fight. You’ll learn magic from your Uncle, but I haven’t used that against brigands much. The first item I bought was a pickaxe- and truth be told that pickaxe will be your best weapon for a while, because on some creatures it’s more effective than even swords or a mace, and it will kill brigands with one or two hits, depending on the state of the weapon and your stats.
It’s always important to have your weapons and armour repaired. To repair your armour, you’ll actually have to take it off – seems timerobbing but I think it’s a nice detail. Also, when you switch weapons, your character will take time to put his current weapon away and get out a new one- also a bit bothersome , especially during battle, but a nice detail too (even though longswords and spears will be pulled out of your backpack, it looks odd but hey, the main character is a mage after all).
The first couple of quests are pretty easy, sometimes you’ll just get items without having to do anything other than listen. In the next post I’ll talk about some of the first more bothersome quests, and I’ll add some more thoughts I have on the game. See you then!
Special thanks to http://www.youtube.com/user/shad0wboss for the Soulbringer-songs.
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