Huan Xiang San Guo Zhi III (the continuation...)

[Starscream]

Guys, I'm in a good mood today and here's the reason why:



I haven't started playing the game yet (just bought it hours ago!) but along the way, I'll give my comments and reviews.

[Shadowlink]

omg your happy. im happy too. Those bright anime color eyes alongwith pretty characters! go play the game instead of sticking at this forum!

[Starscream]

So far, my impression of the game:
- the CD key thingy is a bit troublesome but ultimately nothing bad happened
- gameplay is more complicated than Fantasy Sango II
- battlescene definitely has improvements. There's the revolving gimmick commonly seen in FF games
- overall ambience pretty good, like ver II
- more characters to join the team and you choose to play either as main character A or B. Expect the plot to be different I guess.
- keys may be a bit confusing. I'm currently in a dungeon that prompts me to activate a jumping action but I can't seem to do it. I'll have to find out what other players have to say about this.

RTK characters that have appeared after 2 hours of gameplay: Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao.

[Lady Wu]

So tell me more about the series???

You mean there were no RTK characters before Zhang Jiao/Bao??

*is jealous*

[Shadowlink]

is the main character zhou yu? can you give a summary?

[Starscream]

The 2 main characters to start with are Xia Hao and Zhang Jie. Xia Hao (the guy) is from Shen Nong Village and the girl Zhang Jie is the fictional daughter of Zhang Jiao. This time, the story is more fantasy based than ver II and it has a stronger relation with Tai Ping Dao, aka Yellow Turban Rebels. I haven't even gone out of the village yet so I'm not sure how the other RTK characters will play a role in the future!

It's definitely got a stronger element of mystic than ver II since there are (fox) demon characters, different religious sects, etc.

Other RTK characters that will appear in the future: Cai Yong(?), Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Pang De Gong, Sima Hui, and of course the Yellow Turban rebels, Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang, Zhang Man Cheng.

Will continue to battle my way out of the village today!!

[Starscream]

I promise to give a bit of sneak previews once in a while. Here's one:

Cao Meng De



It's getting clearer and clearer that FS III is set at an earlier time frame than FS II. This time, even Han Ling Di has appeared. Previously, Han Xian Di was present.

Oh yes, I've gotten out of my village already and am now goofing in Loyang streets.

[Starscream]

A bit more feedback here:

- game lagging. After prolonged hours of playing, the game will lag very badly. Graphics will be distorted and eventually the game will auto-exit.

- the game patch is definitely required to solve the memory leak problem and it's already available in the official website.

- animation wise is a huge improvement from FS II. I just encountered a dragon sequence and it is very well done. Overall, characters and objects move with much greater fluidity in this version.

- more hidden quests in the game and especially during battles. This means more treasure and more bonus.

If not for the lagging, I am beginning to like this game a little better than FS II now.

[Starscream]

The game lagging problem persists even with the patch. It actually worsens during battle. Today, I had to fight an opponent with a really massive HP and even though I'm dealing out attacks that ranges from 5k to 30k per character per turn for almost 1 - 2 hours, the enemy was still alive, though dying (the HP graph showed only 10-20% blood left). Maybe the character has got really freaking high HP and my characters are puny (which I highly doubt!!) or it was the game lagging that took up most of the time. I was wondering whether it is a compulsory loss scenario. The lagging became so bad till my characters could not even heal and the enemy could actually strike twice, i.e. lagging to its advantage, not mine. So after 2 hours of uneventful, repetitive actions, the battle was lost and I had to restart the game.

I am extremely pissed with this. Unless a new patch is released, I shall not continue with the game. Aside from its greater flexibility in gameplay as compared to its predecessors, the memory leakage problem really took the fun out completely. I'm now a very disgruntled consumer.

For those who can read Chinese, the game's official website has a multitude of players complaining about the same issue. If the game producers don't do something about this, it's very difficult to convince others how good the game is and so on.

[Shadowlink]

Can you send me a link on ebay for this game?