Posted on: April 8, 2017
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Basilisk games have produced a real classic with Eschalon Book II. The game perfectly balances story driven action with open-world exploration, hack-n-slash combat with intelligent and complex puzzles. The atmosphere is is engrossing with day/night and weather effects, accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack. I still remember being lost deep in a forest at night during a raging thunderstorm, wolves howling around, with only a single torch left, knowing that even if I survived the night I was running desperately low on food & water. Rarely do CRPGs manage to feel so intensely... intense. The story stays largely in the background, and you are free to choose at what pace to proceed, but it still manages to engage and offers many interesting and unexpected twists & turns. While it is true that you can break the balance on subsequent play-throughs, by exploiting certain mechanics, your first encounter is likely to be hugely enjoyable. If you're into expansive single character (non-party) CRPGs with meticulously detailed 2D isometric graphics, puzzle solving and open-world exploration, this is the best-in-genre offering since Divine Divinity, and the best of the three "books" in the Eschalon saga.
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