Posted on: October 7, 2022
chepe0676
Verified ownerGames: 172 Reviews: 17
Good, but not great.
I don't want to be rude,only fair in my review.I know this is a free game,but as a token of my respect to the Devs I have to judge it like normal games.Probably many gamers have been misled by nostalgia.And I am a huge fan of the Gothic games. This game has many strong points:the world is really beautiful,the exploration is deep,the town of Archolos is fascinating, and the plot is generally good. Some charactes are really charismatic(Big Ben, Lorenzo, Garos etc).The graphics are old, but it's not a problem,works fine for me.The combat system is the same as the old Gothics and this is positive.On the contrary,the game has many problems,and I am astonished because no one has underlined them. For example: 1)The amount of fetch quests especially in the first 2 chapters is unbearable.''Bring 5 pieces of meat to X''''Kill 6 boars and retrieve the pelts''etc. Literally DOZENS of them.And the amount of gold and XP you gain from them is abysmal.A total waste of time,and yet you MUST go because you desperately need gold and experience. 2)The looting(which was one of the pillars of the first Gothic)is a joke. Almost the 90% of the loot is junk:sell it to the merchants and you gain nothing.1 gold coin for a wolf pelt?It's less than the cost of the arrows you need to take him down, this is ridicolous. To rack up the gold for the abilities you are forced to do EVERY single quest,so we return to the point 1 3)The backtracking is atrocious.Especially in the quests in the town:''Speak with A in the old town then with B in the prison,come back to the centre to update the quest giver,then go to the harbour to find C who knows something but he doesn't,so you come back to the center blah blah''.I was exhausted, in many moments it's more a job than a game. These are the worst aspects,but i could enumerate other problems,including some freezing bugs.I respect this game,but don't consider it as a masterpiece because it's only a good game.I had some fun in playing it,but that's all.
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