Ah, Soulfu. I had lots of fun with it until it suddenly stopped working for me as well. Yet there still were a few things I disliked pretty badly about the original Soulfu (I'm too dumb to get my Soulfu patched, mind you.
):
1. No MP regeneration, combined with very weak starting spells and the horrendous Intelligence requirements for the higher level spells that pretty much kept you from increasing your HP or MP at all. Classes like the wizard were almost impossible to use efficiently.
2. Except for praying (which unfortunitally was extremly limited) and collecting hearts, there was no way to cure heavy wounds, which made healing potions almost completely useless for non-healer classes and was extremly annoying to deal with later on when your HP bar actually was rather high, with a max of like 30 HP - or well, actually, the max usually always remained at around 10, with all those heavy wounds (even if you hardly got hit) and far too few hearts available to cure them all. This made healers way overpowered compared to other classes, and at the same time it was only really possible to get into the third floor or further if you were playing as a healer in Single Player, or
together with at least one healer in Multi Player. Healing potions should have been able to cure at least a very small amount of heavy wounds - heck, it even would have sufficed if hearts would have been available at the towns indefinitely, even if you had to pay for them, but not being able to cure heavy wounds at all without getting hearts from monsters was an absolute killer in combination with the food system requiring you to advance instead of farming low level monsters for hearts.
3. The food system. Having to carry around tons of food in order to not die of starvation limited inventory space so much it's not even funny, especially since you absolutely couldn't rely on the monsters dropping food when you were going to need it soon.
4. The level cap being determined by the amount of virtue badges you collected. This wouldn't have been a problem if the virtue badges hadn't restricted you so much. I mean, come on. No more meat to eat? No more potions and/or Wunnups Cups to use? No more hitting monsters lying on the floor or from behind? Heck, even the halved EXP gain one was pretty annoying despite it not having that much of an effect on actual gameplay. I forgot the fifth one's effect.
If it wasn't for these issues, Soulfu would have been
truely awesome - but like this, it was
insanely hard to play, even though the gameplay itself already was hard enough (lol, dragons).
) and the like.
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