Posted on: March 7, 2025
the_warhwak
Verified ownerGames: 153 Reviews: 2
Not quite there
There is some potential here but it's a far cry from being Gothic. The character movement and controls feel far too cumbersome and slugish, like there is a delay between input and action and the control depends heavily on animation execution, meaning you can only move as fast as the character is able to animate. This is particularly noticeable every time you interact with something, like a chest, or to pick up something. Performance is absolutely terrible and I get that it's just a demo but it's still unacceptable. If this is how the demo runs, the final, open world game will run even worse if they don't optimize it. Graphics look pretty but it's a little too much if you ask me. Too much fidelity detail, too much clutter everywhere, it just feels overwhelming and stressful to watch. My eyes felt tired after playing just a few minutes. I think they went too much on the fidelity scale instead of artistic expression. The UI is terrible and and far from the simple and intuitive inventory menus from the first 2 games. It also looks very generic and again it misses that artistic expression the old games had. Character designs are also very generic and bland looking, since they tried to make them look as realistic as possible. Voice acting is all over the place, with wierd name pronuntiations and accents, kind of like how it was in Gothic 3, like the actors didn't actually know how the names were pronounced in the first 2 game and pronounced them like they thought they should sound. I'm not pretending like the first 2 had great voice action but at least it was consistently decent enough. As it stands it looks like a generic, modern, action/ RPG game, in the Gothic skin suit. I'm sure plenty of people who haven't played the original games will find it fun and entertaining but for me, being a huge fan of the first 2 games, this just isn't it. Hopefully they improve on it and optimize it better for the final game, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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