Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is an action role-playing video game developed by Tuque Games and published by Wizards of the Coast. Based on the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing system, the game is a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II. The game was originally slated for release in 2020, but was later delayed to 2021.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Despite running on Unreal Engine 4, the graphics look outdated and it's hard to shake off the feeling that you're running the game on a seventh generation console, despite being available as a cross-gen game between eighth and ninth generation in 2021. Character models look extremely underwhelming with a small number of polygons and the textures tend to be blurry.
 * 2) The overall game is half-baked, as the game suffers from lots of bugs and glitches, lots of invisible walls, and abysmal in-game animations.
 * 3) The combat in this games is broken and clunky.
 * 4) Although the game is classified as an action role-playing game, there's not plot at all, which is a total shame for this genre. Technically it seems to be designed as a hack and slash game with poor understanding of the original source material.
 * 5) The level up progress is broken, like happened in 2016's Ghostbusters.
 * 6) The character classes are unbalanced.
 * 7) The upgrade level armor and weapon are really broken, there is not different where using level armor and weapon like that.
 * 8) * Speaking the upgrade level armor and weapon, the level up and loot boxes collection is broken.
 * 9) The level design has not variety at all and it's too repetitive for mission over and over, and it is very easy to feel "deja vu", when you playthrough the levels.
 * 10) * As a result, level are unbalanced, and whenever you choose difficult, there's no different either whatever easy or hard difficulty, resulting Artifical Difficulty.
 * 11) The A.I. is plain atrocious, if no one of the worst programmed in history, which means you're dealing with bunch of cretins suffering from brain necrosis. It happens very often that they will come up to you and in a moment they will leave, when you walk away from them, or even more funnier, some enemies do not even try to attack you, because the developers have not refined their eyesight for them, which makes them blind bumpkins, not knowing who they should attack.
 * 12) Multiplayer is broken, every time if you play multiplayer, the game immediately crash and disconnected for unknown reason.
 * 13) Shockingly awful bosses. There are only three bosses in the entire game and each of them is braindead to such an extent that you can safely attack them with your weapons without thinking about the upcoming obstacles.
 * 14) The soundtrack is riddled with copyright, meaning if you're watching videos on Twitch or YouTube when somebody is playing the game with its background music, the video might get DMCA copyright.
 * 15) The voice chat on other hand is has bugs, and voice chat seems like echoes, even you voice chat is off, still on.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The cutscenes look great and it seems to be the only thing so much money has been spent on, barely focusing on other more important aspects like gameplay.
 * 2) The soundtrack and voice acting are really great.
 * 3) The design of the background, the environment and the characters are very good to look at.

Reception
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance received mixed-to-negative reviews upon launch.

AngryJoe gave a 2/10 rating and "Epic Fail" badge, criticizing the combat, A.I., level design, the broken progression, repetitive mission quests, outdated graphics, broken character's level up progress, and classes, but praised the cutscenes.

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