First off I would like to say that I never actually finished Enclave. And for a while after I stopped playing I started to think "why did I stop playing this game?" Then I started playing again and was like "Oh yea now I remember! Because its f***ing evil!!" Its what would have happened if Hitler were brought back in game form.
The story goes that your an knight trapped in prison which is then attack by outlanders and you escape and meet the queen and the rest just becomes a blur in my head....I remember there being a princess kidnapping being involved which is about as original as Nintendo coming out with a new Mario game (Which incidentally has a princess kidnapping involved as well). What I'm trying to say is that the story's sh** and is told through a mix of cut scenes and random paragraphs during loading screens which are about as much us as a rusty spoon to a cockroach seeing as how you'll end up skipping most of them any ways.
The game play is the only good thing that I can say about this game, the actual combat (and the sound track as well)were swords and shields all impact like you'd expect and you'd be surprised at how awesome it feels to slash someone's groin block their next attack, sidestep. and slice them in half all without button mashing or the bore of clicking on the enemy multiple times! This awesome feeling is then utterly destroyed when the game decides to randomly spawn four shadow skeletons around you which are each tougher then you and then goes "oh look at that, you died you cocky bastard now we're going to make you restart the ENTIRE F***ing LEVEL!"
Whatever happened to check points? I thought we'd perfected this technology, and now I'm going to say it another time just to make it clear CHECK POINTS! CHECK POINTS! Mother F***ing CHECK POINTS! And if your going to not use check points then at least don't send us back to the bloody map room ever time we die. And by God you'll die a lot. The game expects you to play each level at least 10 times just to figure out were each bloody instant kill enemy is and then sits back and goes "ha ha now you've got to restart again!"
You know what Enclave? No, no I'm just leaving you this one now. To summarize the experience, playing Enclave can be equated to sifting through a pile of S*** for a single piece of chocolate. Sure the chocolate will taste good but it will not last long and you'll quickly lose your appetite for it once you realize that it was still smeared with s***.
