Thursday April 15th, 1999
Tossing aside the notion of timely game reviews, Gamespot UK has posted a positive review of Return to Krondor, giving it an 8.7 out of 10:
Overall, Return To Krondor is a decent game and I've enjoyed playing it a great deal. It may not be quite up there with Baldur's Gate in my affections, but the two are very different in style. As a Feist fan, this was something I'd looked forward to and I was not disappointed a couple of smallish flaws kept it out of the classic zone but it's still a solid, and very enjoyable title.
Sadly, though, the Brits decided to toss in a bit of American bashing:
Krondor is located on the fictional world of Midkemia, so the characters could theoretically have any accent, real or otherwise, and that would be OK. In reality, though, it doesn't quite work that way. Most of the characters sound like Americans trying desperately hard to do regional British accents and failing abysmally. There's the Dick Van Dyke school of Cockney, plus American-Irish, American-Scottish, American-West Country and, most bizarre of all, American-Lancashire. Since some characters do just speak vanilla American, why not all of them? At least American actors can manage their own accents!
Bloody hell!
