Hillsfar

It's not really fair to compare this to the classic SSI RPGs, it's a different type of game. To me, with the tense dungeon action and town exploration and horse riding, it was one of the most immersive experiences on the C64. It was fine that there was no real story arc.

Played it, but didn't love it. Was a weak cross over game between Pools of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds. It seemed like when reading about the game it had a lot of promise, but then it had some let down when you actually played it.

Well you either hated it or loved it. I loved it since when I wanted arcade and didn't want Pool I could play this. Worth playing just to see the minigames, which are a staple of modern rpgs these days. Best played as a sandbox game, breaking in and stealing from houses and mapping out the city.

Very weak sauce compared to the 'proper' SSI rpgs. Pretty graphics but little else going for it.

Hillsfar was a fun little game, with the added bonus that you coulduse your Pool of Radiance character and even level them up ingame(remember this was when Magic Users and Clerics were capped at lvl6).

This was my first and only TSR/SSI game. I wish I'd tried the others before this one. It was a good starter game but it felt like a sampler, without any real plot. Maybe I missed something, but based on other reviews, I doubt it!

I would agree on the suckiness of this game.
The promise was great, but it was just too damn repetitive

This was a cool game in that you could create a specific character and take him solo adventuring in an urban setting. You could even transfer a character over from Pools of Radiance or Curse of the Azure Bonds. How cool is that? My half-elven fighter/thief was a real badass. It was cool going in the taverns and guilds with him, robbing houses, and getting my ass kicked in the arena by So-and-So the minotaur champion. My only gripe with this game was regardless of class or race your character always looked like the same, which was a human male fighter, regardless of whether you were man or woman, human, dwarf, elf, fighter, wizard, thief, or cleric. If only they had thrown in a few character models for variety this game would have been even better.

Can someone please tell me what the appeal is here? After buying and playing Pool of Radiance, which in my humble oppinion was one of the greatest games ever made, Hillsfar was a total let down. What was the piont to it? It had a few cheap action like segments (The Arena, Riding your horse to Hillsfar) and then what? Find your guild, wander through buildings which all looked alike looking for keys and gold, and then... Then... Then what?? There just wasn't anything to this game, especially after playing such a highly detailed and massive game like Pool, to which this game was supposed to be the sequel. You were apparantly also allowed to transfer a character from pool, and I don't even think that worked properly. I'd give this one a 4 out of 10.

I remember everyone having a hard-on for this game when it came out. Didn't like it though

To sum it up in one word.. Awsome! You create your own character as in any other Ad&d game.. Then you ride your horse into Hillsfar and there find your guild (different guilds depending on class). The graphics are just so well done. And the map/3d system works great.. It's huge and got a cozy atmosphere. A+ for this one..