

Shoot your enemies repeatedly because they'll not give enough resistance to stop you from doing so, and the more experience you gain from it the more powerful you'll become in that field. Because you can't block or defend yourself against a ranged attack, the best thing for you to do is just used Ranged combat back. So let's talk about ranged combat, which is where the unbalancing begins.

Now don't hear me wrong, I love strategy in combat and I also like button mashing, but can appreciate which genre wants you to play with a certain style and finesse, but with this game it doesn't have a freaking clue.

The companion AI is shocking, whereas the enemy AI is rather intelligent and will block every single melee blow unless it's a heavy attack, which seems to be the only melee attack you'll do next to counterattacks/flourishes.

My complaint isn't that the AI is too smart or too dumb, nor are all forms of combat (melee, ranged and magic) under or overpowered, but we are close. So what's wrong with removing the odd bit of fun? I don't know, but Lionhead seemed to have a good reason. While emoticons never added anything interesting in the first place, they were still rather funny to pull off, especially in front of the demon doors (I believe voiced by Brian Blessed). Want to do a dance then sorry, not this time, as the options are roar, cry or poop your pants. So if you want to fart, you can't you can only choose dance, sing or play. The emoticons aren't nearly as good as Fable 2's, and rather than being able to choose which ones you get out of the entire lot, you instead only get a random selection of emoticons. If you want to give someone a gift you have to go here with your partner, find the appropriate gift and give it to them, thus ruining the surprise you might've had. Here you access the different rooms to find things like your armoury, your gifts room, your treasury, your stats screen and your maps and so on. When giving gifts you both have to go to what's called the Sanctuary, which acts as your main menu. Briefly covering gifts and emoticons, I did this very few times with my friends online, but the Angry Joe show covers this far better.
