Overlord: Fellowship of Evil Reviews

between having a terrible dog water character selection and forcing the camera overhead this kills the franchise because its trash there is a reason its 2 dollars

On one hand, I feel that the many of the reviews don't know what a "Spin-off" is. On the other hand, it really doesn't change the end result. Fellowship of Evil is not an overlord game... it is a multiplayer Gauntlet Legends style arcade game set in the world of Overlord. So how does it fare looking through this alternate viewpoint? Not much better. There's a decent core here, but its one that shoots itself in the foot repeatedly. While that's totally in character for your minions... its bad for a game. On the surface the biggest problem with Fellowship of Evil is that when you start out... enemies are quite tanky taking on average 12-15 hits per kill. This combined with rooms that lock you in and send waves of enemies means that the game proceeds fairly slowly. Unlike Gauntlet where you're constantly rushing across the maps to hit spawners... while both shooting and using melee... there's very little mobility here. I'm finding the ideal play style is to block a narrow pass and stand still. In truth, a few of the early levels felt painfully long for an arcade-style game but I don't know if the level was long or the enemies just slowed me down. But at the 2 hour mark I'm seeing that that's not the real problem because I'm having decent fun now. The problem is tacked-on RPG mechanics that are doing more harm than good. Throughout each stage you get several types of currency. I'm going to call them "XP coins", "Minion XP coins", "Weapon Coins" and "Armor Coins". After each stage, you can come back to base and spend these coins on upgrades. But each of these upgrade paths are linear meaning that you're not customizing your play-style. There's no reason to be walking across a moderately sizable base to shops because I have no meaningful choices. It doesn't feel like a fleshed out system that adds to the experience. The end result is that they made you weaker at the start of the game to ensure there would be a level up system. Because you're weaker these early levels are full of damage sponges and every stage outlasts its welcome. Here's the thing... I'm having some fun now that I'm into the main game and leveled up almost halfways up the tree. But the opening experience is so dreadful that just over 10% of players even completed the prologue! It's a bit sad because I do think this game couple be moderately passable with friends, particularly couch coop. But that's not so easy. - You need friends. - You need friends that are willing to play 6/10 games. Since those two categories rarely overlap... you're stuck solo. Overall, I just can't see a reason to recommend it. If I was going to play one of these games I'd go Gauntlet Legends, Ultimate Alliance or X-Men Legends. At it's best, this game is middle of the road... and it sure doesn't start at it's best.

You cant control your minions. You cant have a big army like in previous games, you start with all your minions but you only get 2 of each, 6 when you upgrade them but i was only able to fully upgrade browns bc game is very short. They change the minions, red is not ranged anymore they carry a bomb run into enemies and explode, they attack one time. Greens tp to enemy and also attack one time, blues heals you in this game so thats good but they dont attack. They made a big hub but its mostly empty. You have a forge they send you to collect dragon eggs to start the forge and when you do it you cant even use the forge. 4 different characters but they all mediocre and not that fun to play with, very basic gameplay. Story is not worth to follow, i mean what the heck is The Golden?? Game ends with 1 minute mysterious video and thats it there is no credits or anything. Feels like its unfinished/more content will come or they wanted to make a another game. If you didnt get this in a bundle dont buy it its not Overlord and its very short, around 5 hours.