Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Great combat and movement. Interrupts are well done and feel fun. Great fights. Sucks you cant blast bad guys before combat. I cast a fireball on a group of bad guys and the fireball does nothing and is just wasted. Great scavenger system I hope all CRPGs include this system. Teammates all talk to each other and have great backgrounds and story and side quests. NPC party members are really cool. Fly spell needs a lot of work. Bugged a lot of the time. Also the controls for flight needs a tutorial. Doesn't feel like flying at all. Boring main story you can guess everything that's going to happen. Very tedious and unfun puzzles. Every time I got to a puzzle I was like, "Youtube save me." Loot is very disappointing. Kill a hard boss and you get a bunch of rocks and plants and stuff. Which you have to craft good loot. Finished the game with a bunch of +1 weapons cause the game makes you reputation grind to get crafting mats to craft good loot. Leave the reputation grinding for MMOs. If I have gold let me buy your stuff. Make it just for discounts, not restricting buying. Loots doesn't always drop from bad guys unlike real D&D. So you can kill a Ranger with a whole bunch of magic items and he doesn't drop any of them or he will drop a potion and grass/rocks. You can only equip 3 magic Items per character and you have to finish a long rest for each one which is really tedious resting 3 or 4 times each time you fight different bad guys. You must Identify items to get the bonuses to work. Unlike real D&D where you can just wear it. makes it more like Diablo 2 Identifying. Only armor makes your character look any different and the quest item crown. Game needed a better name. I tell my friends I am playing Solasta and they thought is was medication.

I would give this 4.5 if I could, but it's closer to 5 stars than 4. The game itself is great, the combat is impressive, and it really feels like a tabletop game. By the end your characters feel appropriately powerful, and the story (while not groundbreaking) was great. I only wish all classes were offered, and there was more game! Luckily with Dungeon Maker, I expect lots of new content from games everywhere! Pick this one up!

This is a great RPG that to some extent a modernization of the old bioware style. If you like those sort of games, this is a great one to pick up. It offers plenty of hours of fun without wearing out its welcome.

... don't get me wrong ... the game has great potential, no doubt ... and it's full of new and very interesting concepts ... ... but it's completely unacceptable to release it to the public in this stage of development (11/2021) ... the game experience is extremely frustrating - to say the least ... and I am a 5E gamemaster and know the 5E rules very well ... I cannot even begin to imagine, how a novice to 5E might feel ... ... character creation is very good in itself ... but then you reach the stage, where you choose your appearance ... it's absolutely ridiculous ... you have VERY few choices (usually only 6 different faces that look very similar and that you cannot customize any further beside skin color) and ALL those faces are outright awkward and ugly as hell ... for each race you might find perhaps ONE choice that's at least somewhat bearable ... beards look like absurd false beards ... faces look like they are made from modeling clay ... ... EVERYTHING in the game has only short-descriptions - at best - spells, items, recipes, ingredients ... you can only guess, what they might do ... i.e. you find a recipe "craft whiteburn" ... that's it ... wtf is a "whiteburn"?! ... does it require smithing, enchanting, herbalism? ... what?! ... even worse with spells and their descriptions ... you might have an idea, if you're a professional 5E player ... otherwise you're screwed ... ... dialogs are somewhat ok most of the time, but the storyline is told in rather short words ... you get the central theme, but nothing more ... when spending time in a town to turn in quests and to buy and sell things the few dialog-options and phrases, that are used over and over again start to get VERY annoying ... i.e. "stay in the light" and "clear skies" ... ... the game feels sluggish ... and the few fast-traveling options in some locations cannot make up for that ... ... there are many bugs ... fist half of the game is somewhat playable ... last half feels jury-rigged ...

The game is kinda rough but the gameplay more than compensates for it. It is the most fun I've had in a turn based game, and I don't usually like them. It felt like I was actually playing D&D on my computer.