To preface, I really did enjoy my time with game and really want to love it. There’s just so many gripes I have that progressively ruined the game more and more for me.
This games feels like a huge ball of kinda wasted potential. A story full of pretty interesting plot points that all feels loosely connected to the point of not even really recognizing characters that were apparently important. A really cool immersive world that feels like it goes mostly unused, with every location being visited just once and never going deeper than the surface. A detailed quest system where it never feels like you’re doing anything more than running errands. A really fun combat and skill system that kinda feels like you’ve played everything after trying a couple vocations. Shops filled with beautiful armor and strong weapons that you’ll probably never get to use most of because of how the gold you earn is next to nothing outside of quests.
As for other issues with the game, a lot of times it makes things more complicated than they need to be. I don’t want my hand to be held the whole way through, but being able to just miss parts of the game just because you aren’t being a detective can be annoying. Some systems just feel unnecessary, like having to learn teach a pawn Elvish is just a strange roadblock that didn’t need to be there. But to me, the biggest issue with the game is the length. Getting into what’s supposed to be a huge RPG should be able to take a lot of time, exploring, growing, and questing. I finished in just under 30 hours. And I wasn’t just breezing through everything, I did a majority of the side quests available to me and it still was a pretty short game. When I learned how suddenly the game ends and how unfun the endgame is, it killed my motivation to keep finishing the side quests I did still have.
I still truly did enjoy playing this game. I got very immersed in the world and my characters and my pawns and I was planning to do another playthrough but I don’t want to anymore, it would just be pointless busywork, and it breaks my heart. I still would definitely suggest this game but you should know to expect a game that probably isn’t as good as you would hope it is.
This games feels like a huge ball of kinda wasted potential. A story full of pretty interesting plot points that all feels loosely connected to the point of not even really recognizing characters that were apparently important. A really cool immersive world that feels like it goes mostly unused, with every location being visited just once and never going deeper than the surface. A detailed quest system where it never feels like you’re doing anything more than running errands. A really fun combat and skill system that kinda feels like you’ve played everything after trying a couple vocations. Shops filled with beautiful armor and strong weapons that you’ll probably never get to use most of because of how the gold you earn is next to nothing outside of quests.
As for other issues with the game, a lot of times it makes things more complicated than they need to be. I don’t want my hand to be held the whole way through, but being able to just miss parts of the game just because you aren’t being a detective can be annoying. Some systems just feel unnecessary, like having to learn teach a pawn Elvish is just a strange roadblock that didn’t need to be there. But to me, the biggest issue with the game is the length. Getting into what’s supposed to be a huge RPG should be able to take a lot of time, exploring, growing, and questing. I finished in just under 30 hours. And I wasn’t just breezing through everything, I did a majority of the side quests available to me and it still was a pretty short game. When I learned how suddenly the game ends and how unfun the endgame is, it killed my motivation to keep finishing the side quests I did still have.
I still truly did enjoy playing this game. I got very immersed in the world and my characters and my pawns and I was planning to do another playthrough but I don’t want to anymore, it would just be pointless busywork, and it breaks my heart. I still would definitely suggest this game but you should know to expect a game that probably isn’t as good as you would hope it is.