Posted on: March 22, 2025

TheOtherRalph

Games: 28 Reviews: 5

A Very Disappointing Game

Character creation has issues. The game will warn you if you remove points from your class’s primary skill. If you switch weapon skills you will get no warning, and your automatic load out of weapons will not update, so you will be suboptimal. The camera options are a mess, requiring you to zoom in and out to see everything. This made it a pain to find loot. After an hour of playing I finally got a tutorial notice of the key combination that highlights treasure in your area. You still need to zoom in and out to be able to pick up your loot. The first companion I found had such a backstory I had to look her up online to confirm she wasn’t a trap. The next one had an incongruous Texan accent in a fantasy game, with a kill-em-all approach that seemed a bad stereotype. I was very disappointed when the game revealed its “Save the universe” plot, moreso as it bears an uncanny resemblance to a storyline DC Comics published nearly a decade before the game was released. One of the two all-powerful beings you meet contradicts herself in her first few lines of dialogue, creating a plot hole. After this you are set on a quest that leads you into teleporting into a room where a woman is bathing, and apparently you are to enjoy being humiliated by this event. This also introduces you to the odd game mechanic of having to rock-paper-scissors for social interactions it is entirely possible for your main characters to have to R-P-S each other in arguments, where the computer acts for one of your characters. I encountered a orc. The game tries to make you feel bad if you decide to fight the monster that is resting a few dozen feet away from the mutilated bodies of the people you are to protect, all having been killed by orcs. The dialogue after the fight indicates the orc is a “citizen” instead of an orc, so maybe someone screwed up programming the game here. After an undetectable trap killed my party I gave up on this game. Learn from my mistake and do not buy.

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Posted on: May 9, 2018

TrueWOPR

Games: 1216 Reviews: 37

[Based off Steam version]

a CRPG with local multiplayer; perfectly controls for both keyboard/mouse and controller setups (helpful for if you want to play split-screen) combat is solid, classes are wide open, my only complaint is that characters hair look like they were crafted out of stone, and graphically, while impressive, it isn't the best optimized, but that's a problem Larian often has, so I wasn't too surprised. Probably the studio's best game, I'm still partial to Dragon Commander myself, being a strategy nut, but I'd still suggest this one to friends first, it's just that good. Definitely better than that new Baldur's Gate Expansion, that's for sure. -still salty-

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Posted on: June 5, 2024

HealthDragon

Verified owner

Games: 152 Reviews: 2

Good tactical RPG, annoying sounds

Visuals 4/5: The graphics are not amazing, but they are above average, certainly for a small studio. There are some attempts at video cutscenes in the form of hand drawn quasi-stop-motion animations which are not particularly appealing. Sound 3/5: The music is serviceable at best. It’s mostly just there. I would not listen to this game's soundtrack independently, unlike many other games. The sound effects are good. The voice acting for the story characters - which there is an abundance of, as is expected in such a game - is done very well. However, as an ambiance NPCs repeatedly shout the same voicelines over and over on a short loop at the regular speaking volume, even during conversations with other characters, which is pretty distracting and annoying. Gameplay 4/5: The game is pretty fun and the combat system is good for the most part. However, there isn’t much sense of progression as the characters gain levels, since specific skills don’t become more powerful. Many higher level spells are either underwhelming, unusable as they might hurt your other party members, or just resisted by the higher level enemies. There are some other quality of life improvements that the gameplay could have benefited from, mostly to make playing as a party smoother. On a more technical side, note that it is relatively easy to reach the GOG cloud save limit of 200 MBs with this game, since the save files are more than 7 MBs. I reached the limit by having 10 auto-save slots, 10 quick-save slots, and a few manual saves at key moments (+ saves from other runs). Story 4/5: The plot of the game is relatively well-written and it kept my interest for the most part. Near the end of the game it goes too heavily into religion and the soap-opera side of mythology for my liking. In general, I enjoyed exploring the conversation paths of the various characters and learning the lore of the world.

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Posted on: November 8, 2024

Zdeguaine

Verified owner

Games: 3 Reviews: 1

TOP

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Posted on: November 11, 2024

emzocb

Verified owner

Games: 55 Reviews: 1

good game

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