Avadon: The Black Fortress

Avadon: The Black Fortress is a single-player role-playing video game developed by Spiderweb Software. It is the first game in the Avadon trilogy. The game was released for Mac OS X in February 2011,^[1] and for Microsoft Windows in May 2011.^[2] Version for the iPad was released on June 18, 2011.^[3][4] It was later released for Android and Linux, and included in the Humble Bundle for Android 2.

• Spiderweb Games' Avadon: The Black Fortress continues that company's tradition of large-scale, top-down, story-rich CRPGs. In A:TBF, you play a newly chosen 'Hand' of Avadon, a kingdom which has.
• Avadon: The Black Fortress is a role playing game done in standard Spiderweb style; long, sprawling, with plenty of story and loads of maps to explore. The player becomes a warrior of the Midlands Pact, an alliance of 5 nations surrounded on all sides by enemies in the Farlands.
• Avadon: The Black Fortress Review Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 All Pages Game Profile, View Comments. Yet I have to put yet another 'but' here. In Avadon, your hit points regenerate outside of combat (at a fairly high rate), while your vitality can only be restored through potions or by going to the traveling pillars.

Avadon 2: The Corruption is a huge, indie fantasy role-playing adventure, the second chapter in the epic Avadon trilogy. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law.

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Setting[edit]

The Avadon series is set on the fictional continent of Lynaeus, which is divided between two primary warring factions, with internal struggles within these factions. There is the Pact, an alliance of five nations, in the centre of Lynaeus, and the Farlands, a loose-knit group of faded empires and barbarian territories, on the outskirts of Lynaeus. The Pact has banded together to fend off invasion from the Farlands.^[5] The Farlands include among their nations such fantasy creatures as Wretches, Giants, and Titans, with other fantasy creatures, such as Dragons, also existing within Lynaeus.

The fortress of Avadon is a force within the Pact; a small army of warriors, spies, assassins, and diplomats (known in-game as Hands, Eyes, and Hearts) tasked to protect the Pact and eliminate any threats to its safety, both internal and external, before they have the chance to grow. The servants of Avadon have great power and are not bound by the laws of the Pact, or rather, they are the law of the pact, though this can lead to corruption and abuse.

Avadon is led by its 'Keeper' Redbeard, a powerful and mysterious figure who was elected by the council that decides matters relevant to all members of the Pact, but in so being elected Redbeard holds the position of keeper for (his unnaturally long) life. The player controls a group of Hands of Avadon, warriors under Redbeard's command who seek out and fight a conspiracy against the Pact.

Gameplay[edit]

Avadon: The Black Fortress is a single-player role-playing video game. The player assumes the role of a Blademaster, a Shadowwalker, a Shaman, or a Sorceress and after that can variously recruit up to two other characters (from the same set of four classes) for missions assigned by the leaders of Avadon.^[6] This adds a more fleshed-out companion feature to Spiderweb software games than has existed previously, with these characters having their own opinions on the state of the pact and the player characters actions.

Each character class in Avadon has its own set of several dozen abilities. These can be spells to inflict damage or summon aid, blessings and curses, and rituals that heal wounded party members, or physical skills. Avadon features elaborate scripted encounters that are intended to encourage a variety of tactics, using differing party compositions.^[7][8]

Reception[edit]

Avadon: The Black Fortress has generally received favorable reviews from gaming critics, scoring 77% at Metacritic from seven reviews and 77% from GameRankings from nine reviews.^[11][12] The game has been met with praise for its depth of storytelling and gameplay,^[14][15] while simultaneously receiving criticism for the use of crude graphics and lack of better sound effects.^[16][17]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun gave Avadon a positive review, claiming that, 'As simple as it looks, it’s one of those games that’s very easy to fire up for a few minutes, only to be magically transported without supper to 5AM the next day.'^[17] GameSpot awarded the game 7/10, claiming that, 'Just like the developer's earlier efforts in the Avernum and Geneforge franchises, the game compensates for its archaic visuals and sound with an engaging focus on storytelling and turn-based party combat that recalls the glory days of the Gold Box games from the late '80s and early '90s.'^[13]

References[edit]

1. ^Avadon Support Page
2. ^[1]
3. ^Avadon Main Page
4. ^Inside Mac Games Holiday Q&A 1
5. ^Inside Mac Games Avadon Preview
6. ^Subgamers Interview With Jeff Vogel
7. ^RPG Codex Interview With Jeff Vogel
8. ^Gear Diary Review of Avadon
9. ^'Avadon - MAC Review - allgame'. Allgame. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
10. ^'Avadon - PC Review - allgame'. Allgame. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
11. ^ ^abc'Avadon: The Black Fortress for PC - GameRankings'. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
12. ^ ^ab'Avadon: The Black Fortress for PC Reviews - Metacritic'. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
13. ^ ^abGameSpot ReviewArchived January 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
14. ^Inside Mac Games Review
15. ^GameBanshee ReviewArchived January 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
16. ^'Digital Entertainment News Review'. Archived from the original on 2011-12-24. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
17. ^ ^abRock, Paper, Shotgun Review

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Anvil Apprentice: Augment ten items.
Avadon's Gaze: In the Farlands, no foe of the Pact can be left standing.
Back In the Fold: Bring all four of your allies back to Avadon.
Big Game: Hunt down the greatest prey. (Normal difficulty or higher.)
Big, Bigger, and Biggest: Eliminate the threat to the Kva.
Craftmaster: Augment 50 items.
Don't Bug Me With Your Issues!: Reach the endgame without ever making one of your companions happy. (Normal difficulty or higher.)
Don't Taunt Dragons: Showed the ogres just how foolish they were.
Employee of the Month: Prove your loyalty to Redbeard.
Experiments Concluded: Purged a tower of its unspeakable experiments.
Eye of Avadon: Complete Avadon: The Black Fortress on Hard difficulty or higher.
Hand of Avadon: Complete Avadon: The Black Fortress on Normal difficulty or higher.
Heart of Avadon: Complete Avadon: The Black Fortress on Torment difficulty.
Irritable Reptile: Calm the dragon Zhethron. For the first time.
Leave Them Where They Lie: Reach the endgame without ever using a Resurrection scroll. (Normal difficulty or higher.)
Lone Justice: Cleansed the Beraza Woods of bandits.
Nathalie Will Be Pleased: Send Beloch the Scourge back where it came from. (Hard difficulty or higher.)
Pay Your Respects: Locate the crypt of the Keepers.
Peace Within the Pact: Show that Holklandans and the Kellem can work together.
Perfection Achieved: Get your main character to level 30.
Quality of Your Enemies: Fight your way back into the castle.
Shadow of the Woods: Hunted down the Shadow Beast.
Take Only What You Need: Reach the endgame and never have more than one character beside yourself in your party. (Normal difficulty or higher.)
Terminal Insubordination: Claim Avadon for your own. (Normal difficulty or higher.)
Tested By Fire: Get your main character to level 10.
True Power: Get your main character to level 20.
Wall Spots: Found a secret door.
Well-Read: Find all codex entries.
Without a Scratch: Reach Castle Vebeaux without one of your characters ever going unconscious. (Hard difficulty or higher.)
Your New Employer: Meet redbeard.