Drova - Forsaken Kin

All in all this is an excellent and engaging RPG. I played in explorer mode, because I wasn't interested in long drawn out fights. I was still challenged and could not just wander the map from the start. It seemed to ramp up well as I found new areas and improved my character. I loved the populace. They seemed to have personality, and even though there was no voice acting, they had little quirks (spitting, laughing, sighing) that really made them come to life. The event scripting for more complex quests was very well done. They had that nailed down perfectly. Some quests remind me of old RPGs that tried to do similar things but did not carry it off nearly as well as these guys did. The map was amazing to explore, although it did suffer from a lot of multi-level maze type where you had to find the one way to get to somewhere, which could be frustrating at times. Overall it was still very satisfying to wander and discover new landmarks. The map wasn't too big to traverse regularly (which you end up doing alot) I wish the map let you make notes on it instead of just adding stamps. Sound and music were great. I really would love to see a sequel. The world was charming and I long for more. Well done!

The art style is nice, if unimaginative, and that is its only "high" point. The writing is generic and utterly boring. The quests are the same quests people have been making for 40 gd years. "Bring me 10 logs" "go get me 4 iron" Christ, what tedium. You don't even chop the trees yourself - you gather what is already chopped, which just seems insulting honestly. Most of the people you'll handle these quests for are unlikable and rude, or inoffensively bland at best. It feels like an adult game written by children. Experienced 7 crashes/freezes across 5 hours, generally when loading a save. The combat is its lowest point, poorly balanced and a slog of tedium. Very limited options in how you handle combat, and some of them are just outright trash. I honestly think Gothic 3 might have had better combat, and that is saying something. And then there's the pathing.. thousands of arbitrary dead ends means you spend far too much time running around senselessly. It's an extremely linear world made to appear open until you're actually trying to walk through it. Don't buy this game unless you're just a massive fan of what Gothic was. It's a servicable spiritual successor. The vein pulsing on my head urges me to give this one star, but it's still better than a lot of other games. 3Stars. Extremely average game.

I'm an old-school gamer, so the aesthetic scratched all the right itches for me. Excellent gameplay loop, open world that rewards exploration, no shortage of things to do, and wonderful character interactions. A must-buy for anyone looking for an excellent action-RPG experience. This is what Ultima 8 should have been if it had been alotted enough time in the oven.

If you like gothic, 2D pixelart and celtic settings, get this game.. it needs a little bit to get into it, but its a great game when youre in.... a lovely designed world, a story that started 0815 but gets pretty interesting the more you explore the world, nice characters and hard but fun combat (hard If you do everything already in act one, it gets way easier if you explore with later act-gear...you can explore nearly the whole map from the beginning, youre just limited by your skills in combat) The biggest point for me is the great questdesign, similar to games like oblivion, where even a seemingly unimportant side quest can become a side story for around an hour playtime (Or you just simply avoid it alltogether) The only downsides are, that the world becomes pretty empty if you kill everything at act one already, because nothing really respawns beside some progress spawns and the reward for defeating the secret final boss, which is useless at this point of progress (But its already rewarding to finally down him). Overall this is my first review after hundreds of games but i feel like this game deserves it.

Great game! Really enjor the open world:=)