Bound By Flame

YES I purchased this game, AND have been playing it. Three stars for originality and fighting mechanics. Other than that, in many spots it is too simplified, although the end is hard. Graphics are ok, but nothing to write home about. Music is decent enough. Still docking 2 stars for the language difficulty AND for GOG and Developer both launching a half-baked release without checking for something as simple and easy to spot as a language error at installation. Look, GOG- yes it is on sale, BUT you charge MONEY for it. People EXPECT to get value for their money, if you are selling it, something THAT obvious should have been fixed before offering it...and that when I was the FIRST to REVIEW and you couldn't see clear to SHOW the review tells me you are not the honest company I thought you were when I started purchasing games here. At almost 200 games I own, one would THINK customer satisfaction is IMPORTANT. I can understand now between DRM's, premature launches, programs requiring workarounds rather than being fixed, and hidden reviews, even with fair pricing I can see why people pirate your wares! Any more bad products, and I'm going back to "TRY BEFORE YOU BUY" myself!!! Maybe it "hurts" developers and middlemen, but so does bad business practices! Be fair and honest, reviews will be fair and honest. Screw up, and it is YOUR fault if reviews are not "friendly".

If a game installs and plays correctly, I never ask for a refund. I did for Bound by Flame. To it's credit, it installed fine, and looked fine on my middling laptop. Controls and UI are pretty standard. That's why I gave it 2 stars instead of one. I knew, within the first 20 min, it had to go. The protagonist voice acting is singularly the worst I've heard over many hundreds of voiced games. He sounds like a girl trying to sound like Hercules. Alternately the fem protagonist sounded like a guy trying for Xena the Warrior Princess. It was truly fingernails on the chalkboard. If you can get past that, it might be an OK game. But for me, I'm glad GOG has a fair return policy.

Clunky gameplay, horrid story, shallow characters, shallow upgrade system, recycled enemies/bosses and too many cinematics. Wouldn't even get it for free, one of the biggest mistakes in my life was buying this game.

It should be german but its installed in english