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The best Action/RPG this year!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 27 / 30
Date: September 06, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Darkstone is the best Action/RPG of 1999. The 3D graphics are absolutely great (Direct3D or compatible 3D accelerator card required), and the 3D special effects are stunning. The player interface is smooth and easy. You have full control of camera angle in 360 degrees.

As you start to play Darkstone, you will have to complete a number of quests. You will have to find several crystals to form the Time Orb which will allow you to defeat the evil dragon Draak. The save/load feature is neat. By selecting a saved game, it shows you exactly where you were when you saved the game, so you can differentiate between different saved games.

In Darkstone, to your advantage, you will have two characters to use. Each one you can command separately, or you can command one and have the other commanded by the computer. Its great to have one character able to resurrect the other if need be.

Darkstone is a very fun game to play. There is a random quest generator which ensures you don't play the same game twice. The storyline is challenging enough so that you will want to play over and over. I highly recommend this wonderful game.

This game is totally addictive - I highly recommend it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you're a fan of Diablo, you will love Darkstone. It takes the great interface of Diablo and adds great new features (like a bank), lots of quests that can be intellectually stimulating, and interesting levels, creatures, as well as beautiful graphics. It's very replayable, and the new patch from Gathering of Developers has a hero level, which is harder than the three difficulty levels the game comes with. I'm definitely enjoying this game while waiting for Diablo II to come out.

A lot of fun for the low price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

One might see this game as a Diablo clone, and it very well may be, but it is deeper and more fun than the original Diablo in many ways. First of all, the graphics are all 3D, which is a step that even Diablo 2 has not taken. The quests are a little more random and non-linear than in either Diablo, making it very replayable. One great feature is the way one player can create two heroes - one to control directly, and the other to be controlled by the computer as a monster-killing ally. In addition to this, the 3D levels have great lighting effects and fighting monsters is really fun.

There are 4 main classes, which are divided into 8 subclasses according to gender, which has a small effect on the characters (for example, females can be archers but males can be assassins). There are 8 skills that each character can learn and improve upon, and these skills are different for different classes. Also, characters get hungry and must be fed, with food bought from the store, found during adventuring, or found using special skills.

I bought the game for $ and was satisfied. I highly reccommend it for the new Amazon.com price or if you can find it at a PC game store for cheaper.

Sure Its A Diablo Clone, But I'll Take Darkstone Any Day

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Many people are caught up in that fact that darkstone blatantly lifts many gameplay features from Diablo. However they faile to notice one fact, darkstone is better. Better gamplay, better charecters, better plot, much better graphics, more variety, and the list goes on and on. Kudos to Gathering Of Developers, with games like Darkstone and Age of Wonders now out we can be assured that quality fantasy games will still be around for quite some time.

Darkstone for PC by gathering of Developers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Darkstone is an excellent game. I've had it for about four months, and it has got increasingly difficult, but still a great game. I have all three of the patches for Darkstone, and it makes the game harder but more interesting. the game is based on gathering the seven crystals from their various keepers by helping the keepers. Then you assemble the Time Orb and defeat draak, a necromancer who has gained the ability to turn into a dragon. My friend has it too, and he's probably better at it but rushes into things too much. For example, he had six of the seven crystals, then he went and sold three items which would have made him extremely powerful. He realized his mistake and has started a new game, which means I've got more crystals than him. Yay! Great game.

Darkstone is a breath of fresh air.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well , to say that 'Nightstone' is graphically subpar to today's Act/Rpg's
would be a completely (unfair and also a idiotic) comparison.
What you have here is a game that was created during the 'Changing of the
gaurd' between Win98 and XP - high tech graphic engines did not exist as of this time and (3D graphics) were still in it's infantcy.
Ok, with that aside, i find 'Nightstone' to be a very enjoyable title.I was suprised to see that for an old title, the developers got the whole
control scheme and camera control down to a science, very easy to pick up
and play without tedium and the option to play (2 character's) at once and
switch between them with ease is something i don't see in even most of
Today's Multi-Million dollar titles. Game developers:TAKE NOTE; Want to
create a title that works, buy a copy of this game, study the animations,
the control scheme and use today's graphic resources and then maybe,just
maybe fans of the genre will get something worth $50.
The story is only slightly original, but for what it's worth, it works
and it does seem to rival most the 'Dribble' thrown in most modern RPG's
of this type. 5 Stars for getting right (back then); what most should have already perfected by now.
-holyknight8

Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game, and I cannot recommend it enough. This is a wonderful little hack and slash rpg. The graphics aren't that great so if you only like the best graphics then you will not want to get this game.

Great, Fun & Playable Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was a shock to me. I got it for free from a friend who had never played it and didn't want it because, he said, "it looks lame." It's not lame; it's actually pretty great.

The whole premise of the game is the standard fantasy fare. You need to save a small town from being taken over by an evil wizard who can, you later find out, turn into a dragon. (Yeah, I guess it does sound a little lame.) You fight your way through a ton of dungeons, you upgrade your weapons and armor as you would in any other Diablo-type game, and you have to solve puzzles in a very Zelda-like way.

What makes the game so fun is that it'll take you a very short time to get used to the interface, so you feel like an expert the whole time. That's not to say it's dumbed down or oversimplified: it's just not overly complex like some fantasy games tend to be. The story is compelling and the music is really great: seriously, give the woman by the tree some gold so she'll sing the Darkstone song and it'll be in your head for a month.

Overall, if you like this sort of game and don't feel like you need to be over-powered by graphics and gore, this is a great choice.

Tiding me over till Diablo II

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: February 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Not perfect by any means, but it has addicted me. Graphics are OK. Voice-overs are not the kind Blizzard has made us come to expect. Not the best story. But I am enjoying it- and for thirty bucks that says a lot.

True, they also won't win any points for originality... all though there are a number of game play innovations that I hope the staff at Diablo II won't ignore(upgrading weapons, skills, better mapping, running, and that feature that autopilots you to certain places you've been before). Single player was fun- featuring the ability to use two characters, but as with almost games I play nowadays- multiplayer is what I care about. And with two good friends- We had quite a blast romping through the dungeons at Heat.net, all though its difficult to get a game going there as it hasn't achieved a high level of popularity. What made it even better was that the three of us were using Roger Wilco to communicate. It felt like we were in our High school Dungeons and Dragons days even though we were in different states.

Well until Diablo II comes out (as many have said) you could do a lot worse than this game.

Good game with some flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 02, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Darkstone is indeed a fine RPG game. Sadly, it was released with numerous bugs, only some of which are corrected by the game patch.

I share most of the opinions of those who have extolled it virtues, and shall not repeat them. Instead I wish to point out two of the game's most irksome shortcomings.

While it is nice to have the second character there to resurrect you, I have found that character #2 is much more proficient at getting himself killed. The AI controlling #2's actions is not the best. I recommend using #2 for his native skills and as a pack animal only.

Also, the default graphical cursor is slow and laggy, making melee with a dozen or so critters very difficult. The game comes with the option of switching to a hardware-controlled cursor, but this option does not work with all video cards.

In spite of all that, I have played through Darkstone many times already. The most fun I've had is picking the pockets of the dungeon creatures with my thief.

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