Comments on Tales of the Rampant Coyote: Wizardry 8 Part II: Running the Gauntlet

I was exactly where you are on this post but in a ...

2008-08-20T23:50:00.000-07:00

I was exactly where you are on this post but in a different game. I'm a fan of the Might & Magic games and liked it's turn based combat and world exploration. But then I tried it's 6th incarnation and got utterly disappointed because exploration was possible only after you've beat hordes of enemies. I took a screenshot very similar to yours: http://www.gamesandcode.com/blog/2008/01/return-to-might-and-magic

One of my favorite games of all time. Just finish...

2008-08-20T13:19:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite games of all time. Just finished it again a few months ago with a solo fairy ninja...multiclassed originally from Bishop, I think, to get all spells. Lets just say nothing could stop me by the end of the game...a bit difficult in the beginning. Stick close to the walls everywhere so enemies don't flank you...#1 tip.

If you're enjoying the nostalgia so far, just wait...

2008-08-20T05:22:00.000-07:00

If you're enjoying the nostalgia so far, just wait and see who joins your party a little later. :)

Also, those huge encounters get fairly easy once you have some high level mental magic. Just make half of them go crazy and attack the other half, job done.

You might want to use the WizFast mod to speed up ...

2008-08-19T20:58:00.000-07:00

You might want to use the WizFast mod to speed up some of the combat, especially with a large number of enemies. You can get it at
http://wolfie.wiz8.de/Wiz8Fast.html

I don't remember that road being that bad until af...

2008-08-19T13:34:00.000-07:00

I don't remember that road being that bad until after the city. Some of the later battles can get quite large with 40+ enemies though. I know a lot of people installed speed hacks to get the enemies to move faster because of how long those battles got.

As for your party, the only really good magic user is a Bishop. All the specialized ones don't get anything that compares to the amount of spells and mana the bishop gets. And you shouldn't ever bother multi-classing as the new class will never catch up (they're a disadvantage in this one compared to being overpowered in the last one). You're actually much better off removing the character and creating a new one. Changing the Mage into a Bard would be a good choice.

The enemies will scale to a certain degree with your levels which can be quite annoying.

I still remember how my brother won the game with a single Fairy Ninja. Still had the other hired npcs, but it wasn't terrible difficult. Just a bit annoying with excessive enemies sometimes.

Right now my party is a Fighter, Samurai, Valkyrie...

2008-08-19T13:14:00.000-07:00

Right now my party is a Fighter, Samurai, Valkyrie, Bishop, Rogue, and Mage. I may have to see if one of those characters can multi-class into bard.

I never read much into the game on the internet an...

2008-08-19T12:52:00.000-07:00

I never read much into the game on the internet and always wondered if I was the only poor looser who ever had trouble on that road. :)

I think I am about to have to install on my new drive and go at it again. BTW, a bard comes in really handy in that game, and to a lesser extent an engineer.

I don't remember that at all. I think I got pretty...

2008-08-19T12:25:00.000-07:00

I don't remember that at all. I think I got pretty far in the game ultimately, but now you've got me curious exactly how far I did get. Looks like it might be time to break it out and see.

I've been exactly where you are in that game.I rem...

2008-08-19T12:08:00.000-07:00

I've been exactly where you are in that game.

I remember it extremely well, even though it was a couple years ago. I went through the monastery, interesting.

I got out and started heading towards town. I saw some building on stilts or something that I couldn't get into (the building with the barred door I assume).

I ran into some bats or something that were a VERY long and annoying fight, and then there were the tons of monsters around the town itself.

I found that once I got into the town there were friendly patrols or guards or something that were fighting (and mostly killing) the monsters.

At that point though I felt really outgunned and like I was obviously screwing up the game, so I went to GameFAQs to do a little research.

There I learned that the game itself has surprisingly little depth, and the illusion that it did was just that. I was very disappointed. That town was pretty much the last town I saw.