Posted on: May 2, 2024
jeansjoe
Games: 309 Reviews: 12
It's a great game, unless you softlock
The game is really 5/5 and all the good things people say about it are true. It gives you a lot of agency, it is weird and choices do matter. However, I had the game about 80% done and I softlocked because I failed a very important check. And this was a problem from the release on and it never got fixed and it never will be fixed because the game studio is dead. So I played for hours at this point, I am invested in the story and I wanted to see how it concludes with the character I became in this game. Then up comes this check for the one stat that I never in the entirety of this game had to roll for. I upped my chances a little with clothes and I think I even had a 70 or 80% chance to succeed. And I failed. and that was it. And apparently after this check you have to do the same check again! At this point all solutions to this are "do side quests and level up so you can retry the roll". But at this point I completed all the sidequests already. All of it. really. I would need a level up to try a reroll on a sidequest to finish a sidequest at this point. So now I just have the game installed and I let time pass till I am motivated enough to either find a cheat tool to manipulate the save file, start a new character with this specific check in mind or just uninstall and forget about this whole experience. For a game that does this many things right in an RPG genre it is unbelievable that they had this oversight. So if you like a game that you can definitely explore 80% of and then you have a 60% chance to see the rest of it then this is for you. Or you could spoil yourself and search for the softlock online. But what fun is a game that you have to spoil for yourself to be sure that you can have some closure.
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