Torment: Tides of Numenera - Immortal Edition

Wish I could beat it the first time again. Don't listen to the butthurt backers they whine everywhere. Most of the bad reviews are because of things like the one character, the Toy, not being present on release hence you'll notice most of the super butthurt one star reviews are from like 2017 or right after release. I honestly ended up liking it slightly better than Planescape. It didn't have the absolutely tedious combat of P:T for one. Most atmospheric and just weird game I've ever played and it's been absurdly difficult for me to find anything like it since. I suppose the only two real complaints is that the gimmicky five color morality system never feels fully fleshed out in an organic way enough, and that the ending can be a letdown for some people although I liked it (I caused endless torment because I thought I was calling a bluff). I've beaten it twice so far and each time was a totally unique experience. I'll probably play a third time later as I've still not beaten it with Callistege or played the other class. Would highly recommend if you're into playing a book in vidya form. If you're looking for combat and hate reading, avoid. This is more like a future fantasy scifi Disco Elysium.

With almost no gameplay aside from a RNG turn-based combat mechanic, we are left with good writing alone, which I would give 4 stars for, but I am reviewing this as a game and, as a game, it does not suffice.

Story : you would think that you will get a good story but besides the premis and some side storys/quests or tiny storys inside of the main quest it falls appart not only is it told mostly through text with close to no vissuals (even Baldurs gate 2 had in game cutscenes and simmilar stuff) and but it also makes no sense for the most part the motivations of the villain are bs the whole idea of the sorrow is bs a lot of things dont add up like the stupid "memory changing" and the horrible ending and then there is the dialouge there is no skill involved in dialouge options it is just some silliy rescource managment also a lot of choices does not matter and it all feels pretty unimportant Characters: they are all interesting for exp. there is a guy with who is controlled by different little nanomachines and fights over his body with them there is a woman who is surrounded by her other self from every dimension (like ghost and they talk with each other telepathicaly or something) and she is trying to get rid of them or a slave girl with a god rock well but here comes the problem they will all seem interresting at first but as they took the interaction system from PS:T you have to talk to them all the time and after a short time there will be no new dialouge options so you get a lot of information a once when you ask them shit and then there is nothing and all of their story arcs are so short and offer close to no content in my 60h play through I had like 5 occasion after the first 10-15h with new dialouge for one of them for most of the game it feels like you are running around with puppets which make some noise when you poke them THE "GAMEPLAY" I always thought PS:T had a bad and shallow combat system especially compared to BG:2 BUT BY GOD I have never seen such shallow boring repetetive clunky bad combat in a game not like in PS:ToN there is zero tactics involved in combat there are close to no spells (like 10) there are not much items and most are boring or usless it is EXTREMELY SLOW AND IT IS CLUNKY AND BUGGY there is nothing in this game worth playing for the characters never feel alive the story is nothing speciall and the villain is horrible

Backed this for $150 and am thoroughly disappointed. I loved PST, BG series, IWD, etc. This game has taken the reading bit overboard, combat is horrible, and I don't feel immersed at all. I had to stop playing as I was just forcing myself and there's better things to do with my time.