Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition

I've put 500+ hours into this game, so safe to say I'm glad I bought it. I'm relatively new to CRPGs and never got into them while I was playing, and I recommend this to someone new to the genre. Understand that there is a learning curve, and recommended feats can only get you so far. By far the best features of this game are its NPCs. They're writing and VA'ing are both top notch, making for a potent combination. You may NEED mods. My first playthrough I got soft locked out of a Mythic path. But the game's been through a lot of work over the years post release, and that soft lock was a long time ago. If you enjoy a story with a lot of variations in how you can enjoy it as far as roleplaying is concerned, with fascinating and well acted characters, you're in for a great time, just be aware that you can change the general or specific parts of difficulty at any time, and you probably should because the game can kick you nine times to Saturday. Overall, highly recommend it.

So far the game should be in Alpha or Early access. Too many bugs/optimisation problems for a game with this kind of budget. I had to ask for a refund after only 2 hours, (and half of my gameplay was in the character creation ) because i couldn't play properly . I was waiting for another Crpg like DOS2, and unfortunalty i'll have to wait for BG3. Hope that it'll be patched soon, but if i were you, i'll wait a few month before commiting.

No matter how many patches are delivered, the bugs persist, some are introduced... Just realized the automatic level up is not only sub optimal, but also hard coded, you can waste a spell learn with a spell you already learned from scroll, for example. And other stuff that I think was not broken before the patches. They need to improve code quality or the game will be in this infinite fix/bug cycle. The difficult is also BAD, NORMAL is too easy, DARING is so punishing. The math and mechanics are so wrong balanced... The DICE also looks like artificially loaded between difficulties (I really don't want to believe this, but that's my feeling).

The game is at minimum 120 hours long. I've spent 160+ hours with it. It was like a big rock that was pushing your heart all the time suddenly fallen and ceased to exist, what a relief :). So if you don't want to invest a helluva lot of time into this baby, then do make yourself a favor and don't even start it. This is a **VERY FINE** piece of RPG, laden with awesome content, great humor, and lots of very hard encounters that will require you to learn a LOT about how the mechanics work in this overcomplicated game world. Sometimes it's so nuanced, so elongated that it will literally drive you crazy :D. This is more like an RPG Strategy, than a simple RPG. There are myriads of subsystems, overconnected systems that require you to micromanage things and calculate this or that in order to bring down enemies. At first this is a great challenge, but later on you have to buff yourself to eternity in order to bring down bigger foes and it will get on your nerves sooner or later. + Good story, tho very long. + HUMOR in a game, unbelievable! Need more! + Challenging combat, A LOT! - Almost everything is solved by fighting... there are too much encounters in the game. - Make the game at max 60 hours long. Anything above that is futile. I bet my used socks that only about 5% of people finished the game. - There are a lot of aspects of the Pathfinder game that is not fit fot computer RPGs: - Spell memorizing and resting takes a LOT of time, it must be eliminated, it's an unnecessary burden and you have to save scum in order to find out what will and won't work for a given enemy, instead of just shooting the spell from your spellbook. Let's say you go to a new area and there are powerful undeads that will level drain you. Solution? Reload, relearn spells, retry, reload, relearn spells, retry. - Miss, miss, miss too many useless filler text. Show stats at the end of the fight about weps and chars. - Slapdashed ending and ACT V. - Too much loot! Very much.

Great story, adapted from the paizo adventure path, but giving it a lot more life than you'd find in the books. Mechanics of Pathfinder as well adapted as they could possibly be in a video game. Even years after release they still provide patches that improve certain aspects of the story based on community feedback. 10/10