{"id":13,"date":"2007-01-11T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/13"},"modified":"2016-06-05T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T18:38:57","slug":"throne-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/13","title":{"rendered":"Throne of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve decided to start another game while I decide whether or not spending more time on my joystick problems is worth it. Picking one at random, I find Throne of Darkness<\/em>, a Samurai-themed Diablo<\/em> imitation from 2001.<\/p>\n

Man. I haven’t thought about this game in ages.<\/p>\n

I think I bought it mainly because it was cheap and the screenshots on the box looked appealing. I played it briefly when I first got it, but it turned out to be more complicated than I was in the mood for just then.<\/p>\n

Installation Annoyance #1: It has two disks, and you have to swap them three times before you can start playing.<\/p>\n

Installation Annoyance #2: Throws a silly error, even when patched. Finding a site that would let me download the patch without the hassle of “becoming a member” was frustrating enough (and I’ll save anyone else who reads this the frustration by offering my copy here<\/a>), but discovering afterward that it didn’t help? Bleah. I eventually found help on a third-party forum<\/a>. It turns out that the solution is to overwrite the game’s copy of msvcrt.dll with the one from WINDOWS\/System32.<\/p>\n

First session: The mechanics are pretty complicated, but I haven’t yet reached the point where I have to understand what I’m doing in order to make progress. Hopefully I’ll be able to learn and apply things as I go along. Like I said, it’s Diablo<\/em>-like, but you have a team of seven characters with different abilities, of which four can be active at a time. It seems like it might be a valid strategy to play with just one or two characters at a time so they can level faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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