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The intersection of fantasy and history can still offer compelling results. That's what I try to show dip Entertainment with The Cursed Crusade, action game set in the Europe of 1198. That's right, the moment when the foot takes the Fourth Crusade. In the role of the French nobleman fallen DS de Bale, so we walk to the Holy Land. But the reasons for the DS to the Church and of all political and economic interests revolve around that seems to matter little. He wants to go to Jerusalem to find his father, who died during the preceding cross. And to figure out how to get rid of a burden rather heavy: that of the curse that hangs over his head.

Part of an adventure that diaper through five chapters, divided into 36 missions, and will be told with 60 minutes of intermission sequences, where the adventures of DS will mix historical facts and real characters, as I and Boniface Baldwin from Pisa. A story that may be shared in full with a friend, because DS will be constantly accompanied by Esteban, the Spanish also involved him in the crusade, which together forms the typical "odd couple", developing a relationship because of idiosyncrasies and humor.

Returning to numbers, we talk about 400 moves, of which one quarter is executions, also pretty brutal. Yes, because The Cursed Crusade will fully justify the label PEGI 18 printed on the box with a raw look that will not take shortcuts in the outlining of a universe that can be compared in some respects to Lady Hawk and other than Berserk. And then 130 different weapons, whose use is divided into 16 different techniques. This is perhaps the most interesting aspect of the game: in practice, you can collect all the weapons that happen to throw (swords, flails, spears, axes, shields) and combined use may be to another, using a dedicated set of moves, each of which can be expanded independently.

There is also to consider the curse that gives its name to the game, which will be manifested through a state to which you can access a special bar and filling that looks like a cross Devil Trigger from Devil May Cry and the plane spectral Legacy of Akin: Soul Reader . Once activated, your character can not just throw more powerful attacks, and also access to some magic, but plunged into a new dimension, somewhere between the mortal world and hell, in which you can discover new areas and challenges, as one of the favorite hobbies of the crusaders: the purification of souls. A resource that will be used carefully, because you'll end up abusing it to degrade their health until they die. And then you left in hell, to face death (the one with the "m" uppercase), hoping that our partners come to our rescue before ending up in his clutches, otherwise game over.