COMMENTS BY STAREYE
Exodus

This scenario causes me great conflict.  The mastery in the scripting was truly awesome, some of the most advanced yet. 
However, the combat, well, I hated it -- it was just plain annoying.  Some creativity, but essentially just hacking at mounds of HP that summon more mounds of HP.  The scripting made combat interesting, but it was overly punative.  The storyline was decent, although nothing too great in my book.  In a lot of ways this reminds me of Spy's Quest, but with a decade of  designing experience in Blades behind it.  Definitely ahead of it's time, but it felt too Doom Moon like at times.  On one hand,
I want to congratulate the designer, but on the other, I despised the experience.  As conflicted as this is, Exodus failed the fun  test in my book.  A lot of effort put in, but unfortunately not enough in making things reasonable.

Rating: 7.9

A Good Beginning

Excellent use of custom graphics, good town design, well tested, and rich in atmosphere in detail.  Would be an ideal scenario save its incredibly short length.  There is an obvious sequel tease, but really not enough there to justify a high score.  Too bad, double the length and this would have been a decent scenario, as it is now, I can only give it slightly above average.

Rating: 5.5

Magus of Cattalon

Definitely a polished scenario, good use of graphics, and a good storyline.  At times the plot was a little bit confusing and the dialogue a little short, but nothing too hindering.  Town layout and scripting were superb with combat that is entirely reasonable.  Although not in the acropolis of greatness, it comes close.

Rating: 8.2


Where the Rivers Meet

Lengthy and promising, sort of reminds me of a lot of ambitious first efforts. At the end of the day this was just another monster plague scenario and we've seen plenty of that.  There were some high points, but it felt kind of rough.  I found a few simple bugs that would have been easy to fix, the graphics were not all that great when better choices exist, and the scripting use was not overly extensive and episodic.  While there are some areas I was genuinelyimpressed with, there were many others that made me less enthused.  Definite potential, but uneven in quality.  Be that it is a little rough around the edges, I would say this is a very good effort with sheer length factored in.

Rating: 7.0