Posted on: April 26, 2021

Vermilleo

Games: 134 Reviews: 13

So flawed. Still good. GoG ver. broken.

THE MULTIPLAYER ELEMENTS ON GOG ARE BROKEN. GET THIS ON STEAM IF YOU WANT ANY PAWN SHARING/HIRING. Climbing giant enemies good! Bullet sponge OR 1-shot-killed enemies bad. Basic world idea good! Character writing bad. Unique and fun classes good! Pawn (NPC) AI bad. Really, really bad. Calling down a screen-covering meteor apocalypse good! 35 second casting time bad. The ability to duplicate ANY item good! Inventory management and crafting bad. Grinding bad. Really bad. This game is like 50% 5 stars and 50% 1 star with almost nothing in between, but I give it a 4/5 because it is so ambitious and original and despite the things it gets terribly, terribly wrong it gets a lot of things right (or close to) that most games don't even try. Don't expect a good story, you won't get one. The gameplay is fantastic when it works and unbelievably tedious when it doesn't. This game is about exploring cool environments, killing cool monsters, and then moving on to the next one half an hour, or an hour, or several hours after you've gotten really really tired of the current one lol. I feel like a little polish and balance and they could've had a real knockout; as it is, it's only "quite good."

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Posted on: January 7, 2025

ARmyn_RB101

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Games: 1 Reviews: 1

Underated Game

One of the best RPG of all the times even in 2025

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Posted on: June 11, 2017

ribroast

Verified owner

Games: 277 Reviews: 18

Worth the price of admission

I would first point out that RPG's are not my favorite genre as far as games go. I'm more a strategy nut, real time or turn based, love them both. That said, I buy a few RPG's a year and put a bit of time into them. It's important to me to make the right choice when picking a role playing game because I don't want to waste my time. So I've put about 15 hours into this title so far and I've enjoyed the experience to this point. The games opening sequences are dam near worth the price alone. The travel distances between towns are not too far, yet it still seems like you have traveled. Long boring walks are a turn off for me. Also I find a little action along the way by wandering into the countryside along the way. The "Pawns" are not very interesting to me, I just think of them as travel companions, but you must switch them out fairly often to have the best chance of realizing your objectives. I prefer companions that I can kind of get to know, or develop a connection with. Not a deal breaker though, and it is a unique feature of this game. The combat is fun, and easy to pick up on, I was slaying monsters from the get go. The world is very detailed and realistic to me, I guess I've mostly played some older RPG's though, but I am impressed with it. The art style is perfect, very medieval, I love it. The castles and towns are convincing to me. The worst thing about the game is trying to quit. Its one of those games that takes you to a title screen, and after a short pause you can choose to go to the menu screen, another short pause and the exit button becomes available. I really appreciate games that have a exit to Windoze option. Its something that I am used to, but never did like or understand about games in general.

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Posted on: September 28, 2017

TGBarighm

Verified owner

Games: 406 Reviews: 27

Great blend of western and Japanese RPG

Big, explorable world. Tons of secrets and optional dungeons. Loads of loot to gather. Ability to mix and match various classes allowing for tons of customization. One of the very best character creators. The ability to share party members with other players and to hire theirs on in turn. Community challenges and special bosses. Unique combat mechanics that require a more thoughtful approach to battle than your average RPG (cutting off a hydra's head requires you to literally climb onto its neck and hack it's head off). And to top it all off, PC performance. It does take some time to wrap your head around how the pawn system works. Pawns, or the mercenaries you hire, can be unstoppable killers or useless due to their behaviour (the AI isn't universal; it can change from pawn to pawn), so it will take some experimentation to build a good party of pawns, but that's part of the fun. Sort of like managing a sports team: bring in new pawns when the old ones fail and keep changing things until you find pawns you like. And if you just can't stand the pawns...solo it with your avatar. Creating a build that can solo the game is also a fun challenge. The game has a few quirks but, in terms of raw value and gameplay, this is easily one of the very best RPGs around. It's almost criminal how rarely anyone mentions this game.

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Posted on: June 20, 2019

brenatevi

Verified owner

Games: 73 Reviews: 1

Great game

I could write a long winded review about how great this game is, but I'm not going to. Others have written why this game is great, and you can read their reviews. So why bother writing anything at all? Because I want to highlight something you can't do in any other game: You can kill a giant by knocking it off a cliff. I giggled when it happened. Then I looked over the edge of the cliff and said, "Yup, he's dead." And giggled some more. I think I'm going to stay up in the mountains to look for someone or something else to knock off the cliff. At least the view up there is pretty.

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