Risen

Ive played this for about 3 something hours before I gave up and I cant understand how this game can have such a high score. But let me start off with the nice things. The graphics are old, but the art design is nice. You may be in a fantasy setting, but it conveys a certain feel of realism. I didnt quite understand the story or my characters place in it. It starts out with my character being a nobody and having to deal with a lot of more simple, mundane tasks to progress further. I like that approach a lot more than the messiah-chosen one approach. The dialogues/voice acting are generally nice as well. The hardcore elements are generally nice, yet poorly balanced. I like that I need a torch to be able see in dark places and having to rely heavily on food and other craftable items to sustain my character. The progression system also looked very interesting. When you gain levels you need to pay trainers to level up the skills you want with your available skill points. Yet I dont understand why drinking from a barell restores only some of my health when I can drink as much as I want. It just wastes time. Now for the bad. The movement system here is pretty clunky. It may be not so bad by itself, but it fuels the other issues. Combat here is a problem in that its poorly implemented. You need to dodge and block manually, but enemy NPCs dont give indicators on how many attacks they will do in a row, when they will block or counter, etc. Thus making it very hard for you to properly fight them with your limited arsenal in the beginning. And this ties into the biggest offender in the game - balance. Almost everything in the game can easily kill you. You have no indicator of seeing the strength difference. This means dying a lot and having to search for ways to grind. YES, SEARCHING FOR WAYS TO GRIND. From my point of view, thats not fun. At all. The no lifers may find this a worth while investment, but for normal people, look for something else.

I like playing RPG with mage characters and I have to mention, this is not good game if you want play as mage. I explain it later. [ + ] The game has feeling of old Gothic game. I like the world and exploration. The world is beautiful and event today it looks prety good. It has amtosphere and daycicles. Also characters and wild animals are sleeping when is night. Characters have few day stages like doing some work, then in evening go to somwhere (Pub or they are sitting, staying soemwhere) and then go to sleep. [ - ] If you want play game as mage, it is possible. But I think developers don't like this characters. You spend lot of time to get as mage, and using a crystal magic. And when you finally get it, you feel very poor even if your magic is on max level. [ - ] You cast and use only one combat spell during whole game ( if I not count another spells, like healing, levitate, etc...). You can choose one from three crystal magic with one combat spell. You can learn all three, but don't expect all them max. You can not combine them, while change from one to another take some time. (You can get a some one combat rune later in game, but this eat all your mana if you have enough). [ - ] Also you have very low mana for casting, and there is no auto regen. Only potions and sleeping can restore mana. And resources are very limited. Therefore if you fight with magic, you have to hit a enemy, when you miss, sometimes it means your death. (because low mana). [ + / - ] I think the game is designed good if you play as warrior, hunter or thief or something between. There are lot of thing to steal (locked chests, doors). Combat is litle strange but I think it has some kind of fun. You like it or hate it. Also game is designed not play as mage and this is as option for new gamplay. Because you need to know what to do and how to prepare. Unfortunately mage character is not interesting and not good as it should be.

This is a game is littered with gamebreaking bugs, some of them will complete halter progress, this game does NOT WORK WITHOUT MODS AND PATCHES.... I am so tired of fan boys praising broken products, nobody learns....

Normaly the games are better than before, after gog turned games into win10 games. This time they did not very good work. I try to jump, game crashes. I try to climb, game crashes. In the middle of a fight game crashes. That is really bad work. Especially when you have to buy it for nearly 20 Euros. Back in the day on my win7 PC it worked fine. This is a not playable mess of a game. First time i want my money back from gog. DON´T BUY THIS CRAP.

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