Posted on: August 15, 2023
crockettba
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 21 Rezensionen: 2
Solid until the End
I grew up playing RPGs and this looked like a taste of some of the older RPGs I loved, my fav of all time being Planescape: Torment. I thought the beginning was fantastic, the setting very interesting, the characters striking enough. I enjoyed the reputation mechanic. Combat can be a bit repetitive. The end was very disappointing. Some spoilers ahead. This was the first game I think I have ever played where I was appreciating the somewhat nuanced and fleshed out approach to things like faith, religion, science and progress, the occasional tension between the two, understanding and making sense of faith in the world with hardships. But the plot throws it all away by taking the road of, I think, every single other RPG out there that even bothers to approach these subjects at all. The end throws all of these nuances away with yet another atheism is true. I've encountered it so much that it's not innovative or evocative or groundbreaking. It's tiresome. Frankly, I encounter it so much I do wonder if there isn't some wish fulfillment in this being a plot point of so many games. In PoE it definitely comes across as such. I was also struck by how much this took the wind out of my sails to go through the final fight. At this point I just don't care. Which is frustrating after all the hours and money I have sunk into this. It may have killed cRPGs for me at this point.
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