Drakkhen (1989)

Beat the game. I made a custom party and spent a short while save state scumming for better stat rolls. Fighter had 18 power, 17 physique and good stats in the rest. Scout had similar stats, and I focused on agility first. Cleric had a solid roll with three 17s and one 7. Focused on int and knowledge with the 7 in physique. Mage had good all round stats with knowledge the highest. All were female except the fighter.

The fighter zoomed in levels reaching level 9 early on while the scout was only 3 and the casters were 4. I later found a bow for the cleric and she was doing very well with that. My shields and armor were breaking all the time to the point where the cleric was just wearing a robe and boots and the mage had nothing but boots when I finished the game. Fighter and scout had no trouble getting replacement armor. The shop system greatly annoyed me due to its random nature and how I kept accidentally leaving without buying anything.

I used a walkthrough to tell me where to go next because the names in the game all sound the same to me. I did not have trouble until the desert where some of the random enemies were too powerful, especially the flying ones that are immune to melee. Would have been nice to have more than 1 bow. I did a little bit of grinding for the scout and mage but it was very boring. The bosses were very hit or miss. One I barely scraped by with only the scout surviving while the final boss was one shotted by the mage in the first few seconds of the fight. Mage was only level 6 and recommend level in the walkthrough was 12. Ok.

Final character levels were: 10, 8, 9, 6

It was certainly a novel experience but the game has a lot wrong with it, which made me wish I was playing something completely different but with the same characters and combat.