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HTTP:: The Replay Value of Risen
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About the time I got half-way through Risen, I started thinking less and less about what I was doing and seemed very captivated by the things I might be able to do. I chose to join sides with Don Esteban's Faction and developed as a pilfering, two-handed sword warrior. OK, maybe “pilfering” isn't the best chosen word, since I robbed every house, man, woman and child on the island of Faranga. Even the holy Monastery was in a shambles of poverty after I left. The main reason I chose a two-handed weapon approach over the one-handed and shield version was that, with the shield, the combat was a bit too tedious. First, the one-handed weapons, obviously, do less damage, and, with the master-sword-wielder that every hostile human NPC turned out to be, battles dragged out for ever. I would sit safely behind my raised shield and tried to match my attacks to catch the opening they left with theirs, but would rarely manage to beat their incredibly sharp reflexes and almost instant!
parries. But the promises of the hefty axes smashing through enemy defenses really made me wonder about just how fun it would be to finally wipe the smirk off their face and do away with their kind. I didn't even try to make a mix-build of sword and axes, since all the interesting abilities came later on in the mastery and to divide my learning point would h...
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