Posted on: April 19, 2024

NoToDRM
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 2
sadly has (for me) game-breaking bug
Pro: I like the sertting, the story the graphics are nice, even today (at least to my eye) and last but not least, i like to support developers that are/were dedicated to their project. Con: Fighting with keyboard+mouse is, at least for me, not really possible. Keybindings are meh but at least functional, the fighting though is giving me headaches. I read somewhere that one should get a controller to play this game with, and i actually considered to get one (PC player here, so no console and thus no controller in the house) until i came across... game-breaking bug that makes this game unplayable for me: You sometimes get a random criminal tag and are, especially in the tutorial, trown into jail and the run is over for you. With the default save-game mechanic (saviour shnaps and story-savepoints) this resulted in me loosing several hours of gameplay when i decided to max some skills in the starting/tutorial area. Yes i did rob everyone blind, but noone saw me and no tag should have appeared from that (and did not until loading back into the game after saving it WITHOUT a criminal tag) This even happened when simply picking flowers to raise my herbalism (no killing or robbing involved, not even trespassing that would have shown up as a warning icon too). Further investigation showed this to be a known bug since well... release really. never got fixed in all those years. This and the fighting mechanism that would require an additional expense for the mentioned controller to perhaps alleviate, let me not play this anymore. After the tutorial area the criminal tag is not THAT much of an issue as it fades over time, but i do not appreciate loosing that much game-time to a known and still unfixed long-standing bug. Maybe my rating is still a bit much but other players might not be as fuzzed as myself over this. I now consider spending the few Euros that i did to simply be "tip of the hat" towards the developers and GOG for at least providing this DRM-free.
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