Completed the campaign.
Mission 1: Good start, but I would have prefered a bit more texts.
Mission 2: Again, more text would be better. And I found the story here a bit boring. Malustar just comes and crushes his enemies, without any complications. With Gauldoth controlling the armies (even if from far), you would except some dirty trick from him.
Mission 3: Harder then the first 2 and more interesting. The suprising demon attack was a godo idea, IMO. The story was good until I found out that Gavin Magnus wasn't killed. I find it difficult to believe that Emilia didn't stab him with the sword. In fact, the whole point of H4 story dissapears with this since the Sword of Gods is un-used.
If Gavin alredy needed to return, he could have returned in a magical/SF way.
Mission 4: While the boss battle was great, the irritating portals destroyed the fun factor. I never met greater pain then waiting 10min for AI to end his turn of irritating me with portals.
The another thing I here is the fact that in story Solmyr walks alone while in game he has a huge army. This destoys the connection betewen game and story in a way.
Mission 5: Not Malustar again... the guy's shallow personality is anoying me. The map was too easy as well. The best thing about this map was the fact that there was much story in it.
Mission 6: Everything with Malustar is boring since he makes the game too easy. Ebora doesn't help either. The battles are over-easy and starting heroes over-powerful. I agree with Loran16 here, a deadline would have been a good thing. Or arrival of pirate reinforcement fleets every here and then. First fleet appears three weeks after the beggining of the map, a greater fleet three weeks later, even greater three weeks later... would have been good as well.
Overall: The story in global is good, but it fails some details. Malustar is a shallow character. He lives only to conquer the world and that is so cliche and boring. There are also no suprising betrayals, no interesting twists, no new memorable characters, Armageddon's Blade doesn't seem to be used well enough and some political part of story would have been nice in Map 3.
Sorry if I sounded rough, but I would lie if I told that I didn't except more from the story. Still, this is just the beggining so I hope that I won't be so dissapointed in future books.
Be it as it may, I enjojed playing the campaign and entusiasticaly wait for more
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