Like many RPG games, the female characters are barely covered in armor and to make matters worse the story sequences are geared for the male characters instead.  Character skills and attributes are customizable with points awarded for leveling up.  There are many passive and active skills to choose from.  Like many 3D dungeon crawler games there’s plenty of good weapons and armor dropped and something better is always around the corner.

If you’re looking for multiplayer matches or a lengthy single-player game, you’ll have to look elsewhere.  The game’s description boasts of five to eight hours of game play.  I lost a lot of time playing this game due to crashes to my desktop and having my save file get corrupted from a glitch in the game.  Legends of Persia autosaves so there’s no recourse if you inexplicably crash to the desktop.  Despite all of my trouble, I still beat this game in less than five hours. 

While I was looking for a save file to restore from, I stumbled upon the game’s folder in My Documents and there’s a settings file that has the screen resolution there.   You cannot adjust the screen’s resolution in the game.  I do like how they offer an option to disable blood though.  Even with the blood disabled, the zombies break into various pieces upon their defeat.

The quests and bosses offer some variety to the repetitive clicking and killing.  There is a “protect the NPC” quest and for the most part, the A.I. was smart enough to keep a safe distance from the monsters.  There were always a few monsters that attacked him instead of me, but thankfully the NPC’s  health regenerated.  If you summon or purchase a beast to fight alongside you, sadly, their damage is permanent.

While not as vast as many popular MMOs out there, the skill tree is decent and offers many passive and active skills to assign and level up for your character.  With each level they can add or upgrade skills and increase their stats for strength, agility, defense, and intelligence.  Characters can equip two weapons and switch between them using the tab key.  I preferred melee for close encounters and archery for my ranged attack.

The controls use a combination of keyboard shortcuts and mouse buttons to attack and use items or skills.  Picking up loot was challenging at times as it took me several “walkovers” to collect them.  I also had some difficulty mapping my skills to the keyboard shortcut I wanted and one pair of boots refused to be worn for some reason.  

The developer has been great about responding to my e-mails and will be patching and adding more to Legends of Persia.  For the backers out there and others who paid good money for this game, I hope it becomes more stable and fun to play.   As for everyone else, I’d wait for this game to get better or cheaper.