The First Templar

When it comes to games that are made on a short budget, the results can be very, very mixed. On one end, you can produce a game that's the equivalent of a zombie (Trinity: Souls Of Zill O'll), but on the other, you can produce a game that's actually pretty good (Majin And The Forsaken Kingdom). Where does The First Templar fit? It fits in the mediocre section. Not really a good game, but it has the potential for it... just needed a bigger budget, because as is, it's a serviceable action/RPG experience, if only because the gameplay is good. Everything else? Meh.

Case in point, the story isn't much to shake a stick at. Two Templars, Celian and Roland, are on an adventure to find the Holy Grail and make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Later on, they run into and rescue Marie from execution... now, where this could've made for some interesting exchanges of dialogue as Celian is a Templar and Marie is a heretic, it instead devolves into “who cares” territory as Marie just tries...