Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage
- March 28, 2001 12:17 PM PST
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Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage attempts to bring hardcore old-school role-playing to the aging Nintendo 64 hardware, but an unstable mix of ambitious ideas and poor execution makes Aidyn a case of too little, far too late.
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First, the good: Aidyn?s 3D world is vast and wide open, with much to explore and plenty of opportunity to wander from the beaten path. Plus, the game has many playable characters with unique personalities, and a large number character-growth options, which adds to Aidyn?s sense of freedom. Now, the bad: The glorified Quest 64 combat system is cumbersome and unforgiving. The graphics, even though they look nice from afar, are plagued by muddy textures close up and suffer from a low frame rate. The music and sound effects are only half-baked. Still, it?s not often that you hear the terms ?RPG? and ?Nintendo 64? in the same sentence, so we should at least give THQ some credit for trying.
