Posted on: July 23, 2017
jiri156
Владелец игрыИгр: 282 Отзывов: 4
The most underrated RPG game in history.
It is one of the best RPG ever and yet so poorly rated. The game is carefully polished from all sides. I finished the game for five times from the time of its original release. At first - play as a mage and be really sure you understand how the magic works. At second - it si necessary to design a character which you would visually like. You will see him in dialogs during the whole game, hence if he looks unfitting to the role, it will significantly affects storytelling a can ruin the game. From the technical pov, the music, as well as the graphic is really beautiful, even in 2017. The design here gets from the technology maximum, the game is very atmospheric at most of its places (at savannah feels really hot, one almost feels the scent of sweat at an infirmary, villages near the sea...). From the gameplay side, the action (mage) is fun and a whole game mechanics is suffciently complex and well scaled for at least 40 hours game. Spells and equipement is are constantly changing (improving), but you are not loosing rare effects of items. Gameplay feels very solid and thorough. The best part, which is surprisingly criticized, is the storytelling. Its strongest advantage is that the fiction world is mature, rough and beliveable. I am quite sensitive for childish (Shadowrun games), teenage (DA:Origins), sterile (TES) or just unprofessional (PoE, Tyranny) writing. Here, it slightly remindinds The Witcher series. There is enough lore about the world and it feels living, but the storytelling is concentrated, the world is not filled with "large amount" of needless information (PoE). Dialogs are one of the best in the genre. The main character reacts in an intelligent and mature way, sometimes with for me very close sense of humor. Even the most of the books are fun to read, e.g. the history of the ruined villages is a nice short novel. I am not native speaker, by for me, the main voice actor is great. I particularly love the parts when you are lying/manipulating someone. The point is, that in general quality of a story is never determined just by "a set of events", it not good/bad because "you kill dragon, or find out that your mate is a throne heir". Epicness of an event is irrelevant if for example all characters have mental age 15. Here, there are not so many epic events, but it is beliveable. Infiltrating criminal underground will leave you feeling that you really doing so, the university has its specific haughty and morally corrupt atmosphere and so on. It remains to note that the expansion PoFF has a different atmosphere (it is more light, but also great in another way) and regretfully a different voice actor. From by others criticized things. Controls is a little bit unusual, but once you get used to it, it provides better maneuverability than the classic one. Concerning the horse, anyone, who has ever ride a horse would agree, that just pressing one button like in other RPGs is not exactly the experience. In fact, riding here is IMHO the best among the all RPG. It is not hard, but requires some extra concentration which gives much more impression that you really riding a horse. I personally think that criticism is mainly based on not understanding to mechanics of the game, expecting a different one.
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