@ DanceWarrior,
Emmanuel is exactally who I was talking about. I haven't talked to him in some time and wasn't aware that the franchise, as you put it, was taken away from him. I just figured that he was so involved with the BF management end of the business that he had gotten out of the development end of the business an development of Azada 3 was turned over to ERS. So I don't know how much input he had into the development of the 3rd game.
@ Ana,
Thanks for the info. Glad to hear that it is a good game & stands on its own. Look forward to playing it in the future. You are right about the first 2 being very different games. Emmanuel explained to me in some detail at the time why they decided to do that. He & Jerome (his original parner) had always wanted to do a "Storybook" based game from the beginning of Azada. One of the ideas was to tell an 'overall' story with 3 or more games making up the whole experience.
Been so busy of late learning Blender (the modeling sofware that the Pahelika developer turned me on to) so that I can do some mods for the new Skyrim game. Best RPG game since Morrowind, by the way! It is going to be even better when the Modding Community gets through with it. The lowest review I have seen so far gives it a 9/10, most are giving it a straight 10.
Will probably give Azada 3 a shot when I take a break from Blender & Skyrim Thanksgiving to play some of the new MCF Ravenhearst game. Great time of the year for us gamers, isn't it?