FATE: Reawakened

There are a lot of little conveniences from the original that we cannot use here (pets drinking from the fountains, cheat code inputs, fishing being SLOW AS MOLASSES and unrewarding af, etc.) but it is still fun to play. This was my favorite game as a kid, so it's nice to have the upgraded graphics to play with now as an adult.

Came back after many updates and the spell casting is still broken. Trying to use spells and melee is pointless. You're better off just using one or the other. I heavily recommend to buy the originals.

This is all 4 games in 1, you pick which game you are playing and then play it with some changes. So far in the first few hours of play: I am happy with having the items and spells from the later games in the original fate, especially the back and earing slots. It also looks nice, though the snakes are spazzing out, cloaks (or at least a basic lowlevel one) is just fully disconnected from the human model. I also like how each game's unique mechanics are for that game, like the recruitment of more allies is only for the 4th game. Oh also, you don't have to reload the area to refresh quests when turning in a quest, you still have to reload to refresh shown quests but having the questgiver you just turned a quest into having another quest is nice. You can no longer target into the shadow, so no more lightning strikes across the wall sadly. if you have 2 quests about gathering x # of "mini mantis" or other little critters, one of them will complete while the other gets no credit. However if you have 2 gather quests, one being for "mini mantoids" and the other being for "rats" they are separate entities and will count for their respective quests as intended. This version does seem to have lots of quests having us fetch artifacts rather than random unique (the green magic) items like the OG versions did. You can't cast identify while in your inventory anymore, makes mass IDing things a bit clunky :( While there are only 4 potion slots, they auto fill from your inventory, so if you have 36 major mana potions and 1 on your bar, you effectively have 37 on your bar! GET TO SPAMMING LIGHTNING BOLT! lol Almost forgot, you get the giant pet inventory that was added in the 2nd game onwards in the original version of fate! You get tons of space to load up your pet before sending it off to sell it all! We'll see if if the targeting and AI of the 4th game's allies is better, if it is, this is fully worth it if you wanted the 4th game anyways, since the 4th game's biggest issues are that it constantly crashed and the allies just were useless, unless you used bowman, then they just sniped everything in 9 miles. Sadly the AI is the same or maybe even worse than in the OG 4th game, the ally seems to want to slide around instead of staying in place and attacking. and spellcasting is basically one spell per battle, so if you want them to spam buff spells, not going to happen. Attack spells could be alright since if specced into it then one spell one kill, but even then they don't like casting instantly. You may be able to do full summoners as the duration increases and one summon per battle can easily get all of them spawned in. And incase anyone thought of a crazy idea of being able to import your later characters into the earlier games you can not. It was me I had the crazy idea, its understandable why that won't work, but I had a sliver of hope that I could bounce my chosen character around the games as I see fit instead of just staying or up. You get a summon tracker that shows each of your summons, their HP and TIME REMAINING! instead of just 6/6 MAJOR ISSUE: if you die, and choose the "drop your gold and run back" it has a high chance of the dungeon resetting and you losing ALL THAT GOLD! So my suggestion if they don't fix it, use it or lose it, or become a super tank and never die. All things considered there are some nice things added in from the OG games, it looks nice and just like before its quite fun. Maybe later I will organize my review in a pros and cons list. Also I'm never a fan of AI, but I can understand the use of it for localization, though no idea if its actually usable since it was AI lol.