OVERLORD FELLOWSHIP OF EVIL PATCH
A patch of flowers and greenery, any minion who wanders into its growth will immediately change into a fluffy goon and begin attacking you. Making matters worse is the fact that the game introduces something early on called the ‘Golden’. Acting like a crowd of puritanical youths who have discovered alcohol for the first time on a Saturday night, these scampering imps will get stuck behind gates, run into walls, get flummoxed by corners and generally act like total lobotomised morons whenever the opportunity to march in a straight line doesn’t present itself. Oh and speaking of the little blighters, the pathfinding for the minions is absolutely atrocious on a scale that simply must be witnessed. Again, much like the nitty gritty of the combat, the use of minions doesn’t seem to have any sort of skill or tactical imperative set against them and can generally be used haphazardly with little negative effect. Furthermore, in combat your minions can also be enlisted to attack your foes or heal the Overlord.
OVERLORD FELLOWSHIP OF EVIL FREE
Inane, button-bashing tedium aside, you can perform an evasive roll to escape damage, but like everything else it doesn’t feel responsive in the slightest and instead conjures the notion that you’re mucking about covered in treacle, rather than having immediate and free use of your limbs.
It’s poor, uninspired and feels like the sort of thing the industry moved on from twenty or so years ago. The exception are the bosses which, again, can be vanquished by smacking them repeatedly with the same attack or forcing them to get stuck on the scenery. You can literally just stand there, pounding the X button and watch the enemy head-butt your weapons over and over.
Compounding these button mashing shenanigans is the revelation that there is simply no strategy to the aggression of your foes they just listlessly stumble towards you like Apple fanatics piling into their local store whenever a new iThing is released. Tragically, there’s just no satisfaction in the act of combat attacks feel sluggish and look unspectacular as you furiously mash buttons to tear through an enemy horde the exact same way you did the previous fifty times. The combat itself is simplistic you have a standard strike, a strong strike and a special strike and depending on which of the four hopelessly generic characters you chose, those attacks will either largely unfurl at melee range or at distance.
Let alone inviting comparisons to the likes of Diablo that it can’t possibly survive, Fellowship of Evil simply falls at the most rudimentary and basic of hurdles. Now while that shouldn’t be an issue(the game is a hack and slash spinoff after all), the fact that the actual hacking and slashing is so sub-standard and flawed, utterly detracts from the experience. A straightforward hack and slash with some light puzzle elements sprinkled on top, the biggest departure that Fellowship of Evil showcases over its predecessors is that it takes all the face-smashing that you would normally have your minions doing but makes you do it instead.
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