Posted on: March 4, 2017
Archbandit
Games: Reviews: 9
Not as good as it could have been
Well. It's not Planescape Torment. Get that straight and you're more likely to give it a generous score and recognise it's 'ok' in its own right. Ultimately my score dropped the more I played it and in the end I was actually quite glad to get it over and done with. Because I kickstarted it, like others, and very much looked forward to a new PST perhaps I'm somewhat harsh but I felt it was a capable effort without really being anything more. I found a couple of minor bugs, a couple of annoyances and finished it far too quickly for my liking as it really should have lasted much longer. I found the combat to be mainly ok, unlike many but did (like quite a few) discover that at the end it was very easy to use your skills to obtain the optimum result and most of my characters and I had a lot of left over xp and gold or shins, as it's known in the game. I wasn't enthralled, the characters were lacking compared to e.g. Minsc, Morte, and others and at times it seemed quite unoriginal. This in part might be because I have for the first time recently played games like "Thief" and "System Shock 2" and both were far better than this which is surprising as SS2 is exactly the kind of game I tend to avoid. The story had promise and then ... ah well. Knowing some of the writers who contributed to it I do wonder what was cut as I do understand a few things were. This despite the length of time they took to develop the game. It's worth getting (when on sale, its far too short for the price currently), but you should definitely get PST as well if you've not played it. The two don't depend on each other at all so you can play them in any order. I'd suggest this one first to save disappointment and then you'll remember the original and go back and play it again.
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