Posted on: December 13, 2019

staykoff

Games: 32 Reviews: 3

Boring monotonous grind with 0 story

If you care about the story element in your RPG this isn't for you. The story of this game is literally this: "The bad guys escaped from their bad prison place and you need to stop them". Aside from lacking a story, I found many gameplay issues as well: First the game forces you to start at normal difficulty which is extremely easy and boring if you have any experience with hack n slash. All of the enemies and bosses on normal difficulty are extremely easy except for one cerberus who was only difficult because it was 12 levels above the character for some reason. After I completed the normal difficulty I was so bored that I didn't want to play anymore. The enemies are so easy that you don't even need to collect the high level items which kind of demotivates you to play. The merchants almost always only carry stupid items so there's nothing to spend your money on which is pretty demotivating. There are only 2 or 3 types of quests - "retrieve the item", "defeat the boss" and "find a npc". Very repetitive. Not a great variety of enemies, as you traverse the game you keep fighting the same satyrs and centaurs and skeletons and you seem to be expected to replay the same zones over and over to farm for armor sets etc. Yeah, no way. I completed the whole game with just 4-5 spells, I didn't even bother to unlock the secondary class. Yeah I get it, once you beat the game on Normal you are supposed to go on higher difficulty and unlcok more items and spells, but honestly it's just too boring to replay. The game seems to be designed to encourage you to replay it over and over at higher difficulties to collect all the sets and unlock all the spells., but honestly with enemies being so easy, quests so boring and story non-existing I found it hard to complete the game the first time so replaying it is out of the question. I am definitely not buying the expansions.

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Posted on: May 4, 2021

Venus_in_Libra

Verified owner

Games: 835 Reviews: 74

Horribly overhyped and boring

Lets start off with whats gonig for it. It has an interesting setting with different mythologies represented, visually looks attractive and has good class variety. There is a story here and side quests here, but their implementation is such that theyre just placeholders for rewards and direct progression, nothing more. Which is fine, the game is not really about that. Problem is the gameplay here doesnt work. If you make the mistake of picking two not very compatible classes in the beginning, then you will end up with an inefficient character and have no way to reset him. The grind here is pretty big and its not that fun. After 20 hours I realised I screwed up my character and cant use gear properly. I also have only 2 active skills close to level 30, everything else is passive. Next problem is the relevance problem. That being, why use the 12% electricity resistance ring, when you can use the +50 health ring? Based on the enemy variety and randomness it is usually a much more efficient choice. There are no zones where a certain stat build is efficient, enemies are constantly random and thus making most loot worthless. The enemies arent particularly interesting either. You have swarms, tanks, mages and variations in between. If there were zones where you can fight certain enemies consistenly with specific strats, then certain gear, skills and approaches would have a point. Otherwise you go for the most effective generic build. On top of that there is a balance issue. In the same area I can face enemies 10 levels lower or higher than me. In act 3 the enemies become way more deadlier. There are also some technical glitches as well. I honestly dont understand why this game is rated so high. I tried it a long time ago and didnt get into it. Thought maybe I didnt understand something or didnt get far enough into it. But no, its just bad. Its not complete trash, but I cant recommend wasting your time in it.

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Posted on: September 2, 2016

ghostc

Verified owner

Games: 345 Reviews: 5

Is the save bug fixed ?

Back in the time, I had to create my own saving utility for this game, because there was a bug that caused that saves were corrupted quite often and the only way how to play was to begin the whole adventure from the beginning. Is this bug fixed ? Graphics was/is really good (great sceneries), atmosphere too, gameplay was a little dull but challenging, which is good. I will add 1 star and buy this game, if the save bug is fixed.

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Posted on: April 5, 2022

tompikee

Verified owner

Games: 29 Reviews: 4

Wannabe challengin but just annoying

Title say it all. The games wants to be challenging but throwing opponents at you with the capability of killing you with 1-3 hits is just annoying. Especially with the really clumsy controls. If you click on or hover your cursos on impassable areas the character stops following just stands there and dies. You get really low amounts of xp even from higher lvl enemies and quests so you have to go through the same areas multiple times to lvl up enough to have a chance at all. Aaaand the maps/mobs only reset if you quit to the main menu and the maps/dungeons are not random, they are alyways the same. The variety of enemies and weapons is a disappointment. Not to mention the fact that 99,99% of the loot is garbage. So to get better drops you should increase the difficulty but it's only possible if you finish the base game AND the dlc-s. Practically multiple time. And the game is really not good enough for that. So, clearly it was a mistake buying it even on sale. Even Diablo 3 was better. At least it had some cool cutscenes and some original story and it let's you enjoy the game. I really don't get why some ppl make games to cause frustration. It was supposed to be fun. Anyways, I'd avoid it.

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Posted on: September 4, 2020

dchristensenbass

Verified owner

Games: 10 Reviews: 1

Does not work

Despite fixes being posted online that apparently work. I can not get the game to run. These games should work without having to adjust command lines and tweak windows. Have contacted GOG about a refund. No response. Reluctant to ever purchase a game from this site again.

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