Tyranny - Standard Edition

The game is really amazing. Your have many different story path options. So not a linear story and they make it work great. You can fight with one of the main armies Chorus or Disfavored you can join the rebels and you can join with neurtal groups like Beastman, Monks, Unbroken, Brotherhood, towns will have reputations with you as well just like mostly everything in the game which makes it more interesting. You get abilities and stuff from these reputations. Battle system is like PoE but you get custom spells and to make more complex spells you need more sigils and your lore stat determines your limit. Artifact armor and weapons come with abilities and they also gain experience as you fight with them and they gain strength. You get all kinds of abilities threw your allied choices and reputation with races. Making people fear you gives you new abilities just as making them love you would. Oh the characters gain combo abilities in battle that they use with each other. Like for example hulk smashing the ground throwing the Rogue girl in the air then she shoots a volley of arrows at the enemy. With Barik (tank melee) character he shoots blades out of his armor and you use the force or magic to take hold of them and hit everyone around you. Then have at least 2 combo abilites each with your character and some have a 3rd I think and some have combo abilities with other characters as well. Like the Rogue+ Tank characters have their own combo. Really amazing and really fun game I have

Fun game starts off strong, but ends abruptly. Seriously, the end game is really uninspired. It really seems like there is content missing from this game. Knowing Paradox Interactive loves to milk customers with endless expansions, I wonder if this was on purpose. I would not pay the full price on this, but it is a fun little game on sale. The game just does not tie together all of its content very well.

Tyranny is a very cool evolution of the classical RPG. Where it does quite a few things very right, and one very much not so. Video: A few paragraphs of text can never do a game like this justice and i strongly suggest watching the video on my youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRI5IkQa_Fs Text: Choice is the name of the game, with every action having a reaction down the line. Sometimes these are quite immediate and obvious, and at other times, you'll never notice until you start a new playthrough and a faction goes from hostile to ..not. The choices in the game take the tried and true method of giving you a few options and having you pick from them, and it even has the normal "you cant do this one yet because you aren't at 50 Strength" options. But where the game takes it a few steps further is that the dialogue are impacted by more - your companions with interject with their opinions, the person you're talking you might not WANT to talk to certain characters or might offer completely different dialogue. Coupled with the way the game moves the decision making into the world, with the way you solve puzzles and dungeons as well as how you complete quests also greatly shaping the world. add a healthy reputation system and you've got every knob you turn to make a great roleplay experience. But that's not where it ends, because a RPG needs loot - and loot means combat. and the real time combat, coupled with the tactical pause button to manage it, adds a nice mix away from the usual FPS or Turn based mechanics we're used to with - again - choice being the number one thing: Various characters gain abilities based on reputation that range from buffs, to massive multi-character abilities with a large impact in any fight. Sadly for Tyranny - where it shines in talking and stabbing, the loot you get in combat needs to be equipped, carried and bartered using the inventory system, and here the game does lose some points. The inventory system is way to cumbersome and tedious and has you spend endless minutes deciding if you can use an item on character X or Y and even if you can, if the 0.12 DPS increase is worth it vs the 0.1s recovery penalty... very underwhelming. As with any obsidian RPG you can expect a massive campaign, and unlike many games this isn't a open world experience - the experience is quite targeted and directed, slowly opining up the world to you as you progress through the story. overall, Tyranny does a damn good job of being a solid classic style RPG, and while not perfect - the good outstrips the bad by far.

Tyranny isnt a bad game. It just feels uninspired i guess. I didn't have a bad time playing through it, but as a whole the story is forgetable and the Characters uninspired. If you are desperate for a third person RPG, you could do worse i suppose. Just don't expect too much.

On Linux this game is an unstable/unplayable mess. Numerous bugs, some game-breaking, others unduplicable. After several attempts to play and then hitting an impassable bug by loading an earlier save, it became clear this game isn't worth the time to troubleshoot it. So bad I'd pass even if it were free and will do so on all other titles from Obsidian Entertainment / Paradox Interactive.