Posted on: July 17, 2020
librarabbit
Zweryfikowany użytkownikGry: 56 Opinie: 1
An unsatisfying slog through mediocrity
Full disclosure: I got this game game for free during one of GOG's free giveaways. So, my expectations weren't as high as they might have been if I had paid full price for this game. Having said that, I'm still really disappointed with the overall feel of this game. I enjoyed the isometric perspective, which reminded me a lot of the old Fallout games before they went 3D. I'm used to these older RPG's being a bit slower in their pacing, so I was able to be patient with the game, at least for awhile. What I really disliked about this game was the way that it was artificially slowed down. I'm not just talking about the walking speed of the PC either. That was bad enough. But the way that most of the maps are just so cluttered, and that fact that fast travel becomes somewhat useless in certain areas of the game combine to make this game feel much slower paced that what it really is. I think that the game could have benefitted from alternative means of travel, like horses, or a better teleportation system. The NPC's also become boring and tedious to talk to. Most of them don't even react when you loot their chests. As an experiment, I also killed one of the town guards in Aridell. No reaction from anyone. As far as the dialogue goes, it's easy enough to navigate through. The mapping system is another point of contention. I like that the cartography skill plays a part in how good or bad the maps looks as you traverse the land. The problem is that your PC is represented by a dot so small that most of the time I couldn't tell where I was at. So in one sense, I had to get to know the lay of the land, which was good for an old-school gamer like myself. But if you're going to take the time to put in a fancy mapping system, at least make it useful. Overall, the game is a solid effort. There's just not quite enough polish to hold my attention for the long-term. 3 out of 5 stars.
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