The Dwarves

Beautifully detailed and the story in incredibly rich, slow and ackwarded at the beginning but catches up with the suspense later. The bad camera and poor loading time kills it completely--- but makes up with the soundtrack and the graphics, The ending credits is well done with "The Children of the Smith" Theme--- check with youtube to review the game before coughing up $40.00 for it, better to wait for a price drop to get this game.

The story is a good one and will keep you going for a while. Action is great, but takes a little bit to learn. I recommend starting on easy until you have everything down. There is a bit of a lag problem. Loading screens are horrendous; not overly long, but much longer than there should be. I've been playing for 13 hours, and love it. But try getting it for $30. It'll be a lot better than spending $40 on it.

For a game made by a small developer this title is surprisingly well made. Its real time strategy is similar to that of Diablo. But that is were the similarity ends. World map movment is story based and reminiscent of the Dungeons and Dragons of old. The Dwarves would have easly been a 4 star title. If not for the lack of any form of ally unit AI. Units do not use skills or move unless controlled by the player. On harder difficulties it's easier to let them fall and carry on alone. The loading screens are incredibly long even when selecting retry. For what it is $40 new at GameStop The Dwarves was a pleasant surprise.

Great characters and story. However long load times, frequent frame drops and map navigation issues make it a chore to play. I died many times only to have to sit through the same loading screen. A patch might fix this but I cannot recommend it now.

After reading the books in the past several times, purchasing this game was a no brainer. The story was executed well in the beginning but started to have holes and feel rushed about half way through. The long loading times (1-5 minutes on occasion) would constantly break your immersion, coupled with the broken enemy/ friendly AI and just combat in general, began to make playing the game feel like a chore. The game itself is honestly very attractive, the graphics are lovely and the characters are animated well and have great voice actors which brought the books to life better then i could have imagined. I have very high hopes for the next game and feel the deployment team did very well considering this was a Kickstarter and look forward to what they'll bring to the table in the future. You guys are awesome. Thanks for bringing one of my family's favorite books to life.