Posted on: February 16, 2018

KorobeaS

Games: 200 Reviews: 4

Help Kitties Find Love!

I have to write a review about this game! I am playing RPGs-all sorts of them- for like15 years! Well for those 15 years i had been a dedicated warrior-brute-force-fist-over-matters. It was rare that i chose the mage class just because it was a great hussle of micomanaging spells,potions and all that magic stuff... But after i tried to play steel-vs-steel-plus-support-mage in this game the 1st run(tactician) i was OWNED. I got to the point where i thought this game was badly designed and unfair as i had played XCOM that had rng turn base too but it was doable!. After a bit of research in the forum about why i was losing so hard i got a whif of why and the reason was that i didnt use the elements to my advantage. I went and try to make a party of a mage and warrior.... IT WAS A BLAST ! Setting up the environment as a trap for your opponent with your elemental mage be that fire to an oily surface or thunder to a watery one. Never before had i so much fun using cloth classes! All that comes from a guy that is fed up using melee classes after trying to play mage in any game and ending up using melee... There are also cool pazzles that require many skills of your party to progress. EVERY skill has a use out of combat and can be used to interact with the environment! YES you CAN break doors! At last an rpg that lets you use your destructive spells to destroy those pesky doors that had been stopping me for years in games! YES you can talk to a lonely crab and be friends with it! YES you can do a stand up show to destract the audience and steal a talking head! So much to do in this game, in so many ways! Buy it, its an indie game too so the money goes straight to the developers too! Good stuff!

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Posted on: January 11, 2018

jelethefreeone

Verified owner

Games: 422 Reviews: 7

This is the game!

In 2017 I was disappointment many times when I bought a new game. This was my last purchase in the year. I saw it on sale, I know the hype, so I said, let's buy it and I will see. First 2 hours was like 2 minutes and I was not sleeping and playing when I can. I still don't beat game, as I did not have so much time, but I am progressing through it. Yes it has some flaws, for example quest structure is too rigid in contrary with the relative free world. So you can go and pass things earlier than was imagine by the storywriters and unfortunately there is no much response to it in dialogues (e.g. I solved the murder, but I could not tell it to anyone). Another flaw is that sometimes your 2 characters are doing things that prevent you to do something, that you know is a trap or cheat. In one situation I lacked the option to say, hey I know that this is a fraud, but let's do it anyway. This should be done a bit differently. But it does not affect my rating. Or I could say it is not 5 stars, it is 4.8 stars, which rounds up to 5. I like the music, voice acting is good, not annoying. I like the story and the way how it slowly develops, with some already mentioned caveats to the rigid quest structure. I like the turn based combat, as you can pause and think what to do (I was never able to manage the tactical pause in other similar games). One feature is that you have various elements and powers and you can influence and use the environment tactically. You can interact with a lot of the things and talk to animals. You do not have all aggressive animals jumping from all directions on you that you have to farm because of the XP (this is in fact a nonsense that is in many CPRGs). And in fact there is just few XP farming, rather here every encounter has some meaning and every fight is set to the wider context of the story. This is in fact perfect. There is a good choice how to build your characters and progress them. You can be double handed sword wielding wizard that talks to animals or whatever else.

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Posted on: January 26, 2020

eliot449

Verified owner

Games: 39 Reviews: 1

Simply awesome.

This is an incredibly good title in which I spent over 150h of good quality playtime. The mechanics are well polished, the story and characters are interesting, and you can easily find yourself living the whole weekend inside its world. Totally recommended.

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Posted on: July 26, 2020

MetisRebel

Verified owner

Games: 162 Reviews: 18

Just a Bucket of Fun Worth Every Penny

I ran this on linux mint, so be forewarned. Ran like a charm for me. I think it might have crashed once, during two whole playthroughs. Okay, the story was a bit incoherent and not up to Larian's usual standards but it was still better than 90% of the dross out there so until I can only take off half a star, I'll let it slide because the rest of the game was just *so darned fun!* The companions were not deep but they were enjoyable with their own sidequests and bits of input into the main characters and quest. There were some fetch quests, but some were deep and others fed directly into the main plot--making the main story more interesting that it otherwise, might have been. The battle mechanics were well...joyous. Blast baddies off a cliff, rain down a firestorm, make enemies slip n slide on ice puddles while another party member hacks them down, use the environment to your advantage in a tough battle and turn the tides on their ambush of your party... Absolutely great replayability although not much of the story will change. It can be played through with a weaker party for those who want to play for characterization as well, or instead of pure battle and for me, that is the mark of a well-made game. It's Larian goodness through and through so whether you're new to Larian games or have played many of them--this is a good choice. It has plenty of Larian's famous quirkiness and hours of entertainment for players of all stripes.

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Posted on: August 23, 2021

Raf1Or

Verified owner

Games: 203 Reviews: 1

Great CRPG.

i would highly recommend this game to anyone who likes rpgs.

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