Poll: Sacrifice: Part 2

[-Drifter-]

Spoiler: Recap

I'm making a series of playthrough videos for the game "Sacrifice", but rather than just playing the game straight I'm letting the users of The Escapist decide the outcome of the story by voting on who I work for and what decisions I make. Part one is here. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.264999-Poll-Sacrifice-Part-1]

Sorry to all you Tim Curry fans out there, but Persephone was the first god to get five votes, so mission one is for her.

This first mission is something of a training level, and we only have access to the most basic spells at this point, so admittedly it may be a little dull. Nothing particularly important happens storywise during the level, so you won't miss much if you skip the first video. Definitely watch the second, though.

 

[-Drifter-]

Also, I should point out to the few people likely to watch this that, as before, the first god with 5 votes is the one who gets chosen. Maybe once (or if) I get more viewers I'll change it, but for now 5 it remains.

 

[-Drifter-]

Persephone sucks.
Weakest spells, weakest creatures.

Not really, she just requires a certain play-style (also, Stratos has the weakest creatures.) Her creatures regenerate fast and can be a pain in the ass to kill if you make effective use of their abilities. Druids, for example, are extremely weak normally, but turn on their life shield and they become juggernauts. As for her spells, there's a lot of healing and area of effect spells so it's best if you hang back and play support.

Also, later on you get a spell from her called "charm" that will turn the creature you cast it on to your side indefinitely. Very useful during the later levels.

Really though, the point of this isn't to choose which god has the best spells or creatures, but rather which god you would want to side with. After all, I'm the one playing the game, so the difficulty is my problem, not the viewer's.

 

[-Drifter-]

Almost everything she has is melee and melee, with very few exceptions, pretty much sucks in this game.

Maybe, maybe. I think it may just depend on the player. I went all Persephone last time I played through the game and I had no troubles.

 

[-Drifter-]

Sure, you won't have trouble if you know what you're doing but you also won't have an army of styxes that you can reanimate again and again so it's impossible for the enemy to steal your souls at all or warmongers who are just the most insane unit in the game if you have about 4 or more of them.

I never found resurrect that useful. In the time it takes to cast it, you could've just picked the souls and summoned another guy. Also, as much damage as warmongers do, they're extremely weak. Not sure about Styx, though. I've only fought them a couple of time that I can recall, and they went down pretty easily (then again, I did have a platoon of about 50 rangers.)

 

[-Drifter-]

You can cast it as fast as level 1 creatures and you're not frozen in place while the creature resurrects.
High level creatures like styxes take much more mana and time to cast.
Map it to space and you can quickly use it all the time. Best spell in the game.

If you say so. I prefer charm, because not only can it easily eliminate big threats, such as higher level creatures that have been guardianed and, as such, would be difficult to kill, it actually adds them to your own forces. It's extremely useful in the last level (though I won't spoil that for possible viewers.)

 

[-Drifter-]

Looks like we're going with Pyro this time around. Look for part 3 some time tomorrow.

 

[Gill Kaiser]

Noo, Persephone! The scarab's worthwhile.

 

[random_bars]

How do we vote on this? It seems Pyro was picked seemingly without anyone voting.

EDIT: derp, apparently I've never heard of a poll.

 

[-Drifter-]

Part 3 is now up.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.265387-Poll-Sacrifice-Part-3