9th Dawn III Shadow Of Etrthil Review (Steam)

9th Dawn III: Shadow of Erthil is a massive open-world RPG/dungeon crawler packed full of content – featuring more than 270 monsters to fight and capture, a fun card game with 180 cards to collect, and over 1,400 unique items to hoard!

Pros:

• Decent pixel art graphics.
• 539mb download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• ARPG gameplay.
• Initial graphics launcher to set fps, resolution, and graphics quality.
• Remote play together support.
• Four save slots.
• Gui scale slider.
• Can rebind controls for both keyboard and the controller.
• Invert aim option.
• Tutorial signs as you play.
• Command-line prompt setting.
• Force death button.
• Plays like a twin-stick with the right stick used for attacks, a handy arrow displays to show.
• Day/night cycle and weather effects.
• Rolling info bar of what’s killed or picked up.
• Shortcut item bar.
• Clear bars showing exp, health, etc.
• Save when you want.
• Skills will go up as you use those weapons in battle.
• Dungeon entrances everywhere.
• Earn EXP and level up to get attribute points to distribute.
• Play how you want.
• Huge starting inventory space.
• Death-lose exp.
• Fyued-the games own card game where you can buy/find new card packs and play npc.
• Uses lighting very well including having closed rooms being pitch black.
• Bloodspawn-click these to activate them as respawn points.
• Minimap and a big map that will show icons and be filtered by locations and fishing spots.
• Inventory will pop up what you have equipped in that slot so you can check gear quickly.
• Load out-huge selection with 6 rings, cap, arm, book, main hand, offhand, neck, head, gloves, relic, armor, bolt, arrow, belt, gloves, and fish bait.
• Crafting-find recipes and make weapons/armor/items.
• Main quests and optional side quests.
• A lot of loot.

Cons:

• No default button when rebinding the controller.
• Minimal graphic settings.
• No sensitivity sliders.
• Enemies respawn quickly.
• Can feel lost a lot of the time.
• The running info bar can get in the way.
• You move really slowly when attacking.
• Shortcut buttons are not always ideal as you need to press a button beforehand to activate them as it were.
• Way too much food loot meaning loads of small hp recovery food.
• Constant difficulty spikes.
• Inventory management is clunky.