It's a wonky little guy, but I had fun with it for a bit. Exploring the world gives you that distinct feeling of setting out on a brave expedition. It's kinda satisfying to trade up into better boats and a bigger fleet so you can haul more trade cargo.

But the star of the show is the class system for your characters. Leveling up feels great because you're progressing through this tree and long-term investing characters into certain skill paths. But once you have multiple classes learned, you can mix and match all the skills to create these delicious hybrids. I was ready to dump hundreds of hours into min-maxing all of my characters.

Unfortunately, the combat is fairly easy and the game doesn't seem to want to admit that land combat is its biggest strength. There just isn't much to explore on land - you'll end up fighting in just 3 or 4 different area types overall. Naval combat isn't great.

If you like tactical strategy RPGs, this is worth trying out. But it did leave me unsatisfied.