Get your facts straight. It is not "just" a graphical update. They also randomly sprinkled a few thousand bugs into the source code so that the player can enjoy the suspense of an imminent crash after each turn. The hint is in the name.

I actually played Masters of the Broken World before playing Genesis.
For me the differences are significant enough to make both of them worthwile, the experiences were different.

However I could not get the DRM-free version of Broken World to work. I did not buy the GOG version but the Humble Store version, which is also labelled as DRM-free. It might even be same version as GOG (I know some Humble games are "GOG games"). I say this because of how many GOG:ers struggled to get their version to work.

Anyway, I had to play it on Steam, since the Humble version came with a Steam key as well. So at least I could play it.

'Yes', it's a fun series, I hope they make more of them ... if they can improve on the technical quality.
Games of this type offer fun combination of different genres, resulting in epic Fantasy adventures.
Very tricky to learn though.

hmmm, you know the rhythm thing, you might be onto something. never thought about it like that.

The turn-based thing for me is just more of an annoyance thing; battles don't pause for turns in real life! (i KNOW the absurdity of this b/c video games...). It's the same reason I can't stand musicals; no one spontaneously breaks out into choreographed song and dance. :)

You better not play Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure then; it has *both* turn-based combat and people spontaneously breaking out into song.

lmao

if anyone needs to torture me, you have your instrument!

You have obviously never been to Thanksgiving dinner with my family.

lmao

...that..that...sounds nice? *shudders* hahaha ;)

Welcome to the best game ever. I have played this for a year non stop when I found it. Then when you have enough, you can spend another year with the real second game: Eador: New Horizons.
Eador easily surpassed my previous all time favourites, Homm, Imperialism and Civ. Also it was made by one dude and cost 3,99, WTF?

Never needed a manual, the game is pretty simple to learn, and the right click infos are extensive. Your spell scroll is probably circle 2-4 and your hero can only do circle 1.

Because it's pretty, and because Peitgen and Richter did an awesome job trolling art collectors?

It's nowhere near as bad as it was at launch. There's been a large amount of patching done since then.

[makes a note to himself to look into that game for his "Crewdroog Torture Van"]

That's not the game he has -- that's the graphically upgraded/expanded version. Admittedly, it might have a lot of info that would be more-or-less applicable to Genesis, too, but I know I wouldn't want to just assume that a remake had kept every detail the same.
Unfortunately, the only major (English-language) guides I've found for the first game are woefully incomplete/bare-boned, and likely more-or less abandoned.

Ah, I see. My mistake. Well, if nobody can find English manual, but someone links me to Russian manual, or at least people state they are interested in this - I can see what I can do within a scope of few weeks. People state so far that "manual" never actually existed and have pointed to online faq, which I can translate to wikia if there is an interested group.
Broken worlds seem to be already covered.

Last night I found this(which has had some recent activity, but which seems to be focused mostly on MotBW) when searching. Not sure how much that helps.

I only played Genesis, and it ate a month of my time or two of my time - 314 hours on record. Does get samey after a while, but boy was I addicted. I'm scared of going back to it.