Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition

Always happy to see a new cRPG coming, and having it delivered in such style is even better. With the amount of options it has hours will be sinking in. And I am back for once again sitting solid number of hours in character creation to see what my creativity invent this time. PS: If you can't launch the game after the launch, what helped me was to restart GoG client. There should be additional update and after that it should be fine.

Owlcat Games made a big deal about faithfully reproducing the Pathfinder tabletop experience when they released Pathfinder Kingmaker, and I'm holding them to that. They have failed. I've played quite a bit of Pathfinder. It can be daunting for new players because there are a lot of moving parts and a lot of options, but it really isn't very hard. When I see that "core" (that is, the official rules, as close as Owlcat was able to reproduce them) is one of the harder difficulty settings, I get suspicious. When there's a popup warning about the difficulty, that leaves a bad taste in my mouth and causes me to wonder what the developer did to screw up the encounter balancing. I have both the Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous adventure paths. They don't require any advanced knowledge of the rules. What Owlcat has done is jack up the numbers (more monsters, more hit dice, higher base attack bonus, higher saves, etc.) to contend with optimized builds from charop forums that nobody ever actually plays at a real table. It seems like the developer was more interested in getting praise for difficult fights rather than delivering the tabletop experience in a CRPG. Save your money for a different game.

I found that after completing the first chapter and you escape the city, this just gets into a confusing repetitive grind. Uninsatlled after 25 hours, first part was good though.

The game itself is great i just had to learn to use F5 quick-saves as saving from the save menu would freeze the game and during the intro don't use ESC to exit menus like the inventory and one of the only seemingly random crashes i had was equipping the torch on an unarmed char but that one actually works every so often. BTW I'm on Arch Linux and WINE so i don't know how WinBlows might Bork it but it works fine for me just hope they release Native port some day.

After 70 hours of play, I still can't decide whether I like it or not. I don't want to repeat all of the pros and cons that others already mentioned so to keep it short: The graphics are okay, the character customization is fantastic, most of the companions are interesting (unfortunately there are 2 dimensional as well), the story is great, but... oh where should I start? So my problem is that most of the game time is spent with traveling and when I'm saying traveling I mean walking slowly very slowly between empty nodes very rarely interrupted by (annoying) encounters just to find out there is nothing at the end of your route. But it is not enough! This time-wasting is combined with a lot of loading screens (entering almost empty maps and encounters or using the crusade management screens. Oh my, there are loading screens between every crusader related menu) I'm a big fan of the pen and paper Pathfinder so I'm still trying to love it but it is very frustrating