Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

The bones of the game are quite good. Enjoyable combat, memorable characters, and a great story. The game however bears many flaws. Voiced dialoge that doesn't quite match the subtitles, dialoge and cutscenes that abruptly cut off, or that is too quite to hear because the character speaking is too far away. Terrain that doesn't match the ground you can actually walk on so you end up walking through rocks or on air(usually not on the main paths but still in surprising places). Then of course there are bugs. nothing that broken the game or made it unplayable, but still are unfortunate none the less. All in all the game needs polish mostly in the strangeness of some of the dialoge problems, but is worth playing.

Compelling world. Awesome visuals. Fun gameplay. Granted I've only really played a sword and shield style with a little bit of dabbling in 2handed weapons when I would get a good weapon drop that warranted taking for a spin. I have yet to even tap into the archery or magic builds! Runs great on Linux! No crashes or serious issues in my playthrough! Only real performance issues I had were assets loaded a tad slow (few seconds) in Cuanacht market when teleporting in. Otherwise ran splendidly. Mod support and continued future updates! One con I can share is the occasional time a new character you meet will just totally info dump you. Like we've never met before oh and here's my deepest darkest secrets!

Game is overall good. The little things that the game does bad are muddling the experience. Some Questitems that are readable wont be automatically gathered, so you will end up being locked in Dialogs. The Map has no abillity to set permanent markers. And you cant visit some places in post game, so atleast create a save before doin the obvious last quest.

I like it and I hope they make another one.

The game is in early access, ok, But what is delivered here is barely an alpha. Also the devs had roughly 1,5 years of time to patch the glaring deficiencies, but the result? Sadly, almost nothing. Instead of tackling problems, they just flush out more of the same. To name just a few: # terrible performance even on the recommended hardware even when lowering the settings, it's highly subpar, especially when looking at the quite dated graphics. Vanilla Skyrim looks often better and almost always more atmospheric. # bugs rarely had a game where crashes/freezes were that common. As advised by others lowering the graphics to minimum helped, a bit. Still quite a lot crashes, and the game looks like early 2000s now. Add the very poorly made animations, where often enemies slide over the ground (too slow or wrong animation), the buggy lighting with torches, etc, and one really has to ponder if this is an unfunny prank. # the quest/story design "go there, fetch that, defeat x" ... MMO-grade. Few quests try to do better but still feel blunt n clumsy. # the "balancing" If you can call it that... archery is OP as heck, summoning pretty much completely useless, and weapon difference within a category way to small, etc. For example: even the strongest summon, with all health perks, is a 1shot for simple bandits. On the other hand, a lightning spell, that is AoE 1shots packs of almost every enemy. And no, this is no expensive super-spell. TBH this would be solid 1 stars for me... why 2 stars? Because at least some of themost basic concepts are interesting. For example, that the player can go to a cemetery and defeat a necromancer and in the end can make use of his research by looting a spell book/scroll from them, and so receive a completely new gameplay element with the ability to summon skeletons. Sadly that's where any goodness ends, because how it was implemented and balanced, ruines it all once again. Would like to be more detailed, but the message limit prevents it.