In a more traditional RPG way, there's an evil Queen of Necromancers, Hecubah, who is attempting to summon a dangerous magic orb back from Earth so she can, I dunno, take over probably. Some bloke from modern-day America, sat watching TV with his partner, when things start going a bit weird.
Instead of your being some aloof stranger who's wandered into town, with everyone you meet madly asking you to do their chores, here you're Jack. It certainly begins more interestingly than most ARPGs. Playing it today, it manages to exude enough interesting charm that I'm achieving some sort of post-hoc nostalgia, rather than irritation at its somewhat dated design.
(The same exists for Daikatana, so let's not take this as a mark of quality.) Clearly it's an embarrassing gap in my knowledge, which I could have filed alongside other deeply awkward spaces such as "I've never played a Hitman game." But after wrestling with it to get it working (disappointingly, GOG is selling a version that doesn't run out-of-the-box on Windows 10), I feel like Nox is a game I would really have valued on its 2000 release. You may well be intimately familiar with Nox - there's a community that still keeps it working on modern machines, and creates mods for it. So when I learned it was an ARPG I've never played, I decided it was definitely worth a go. But I honestly had no idea what sort of game it even was. Then, as I browsed the archives on GOG.com, I spotted a game called Nox. Twas but a few weeks ago I was lamenting the lack of tangiable story and motivation in Action RPGs, as I wrote about one of my all-time favourites, Titan Quest, observing that the entire genre offers only two-thirds of a game. Past Perfect is a retrospective column in which we look back into gaming history to see whether old favourites are still worth playing today.
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