The concept for the game is interesting enough. Unlike pillars it manages to have more interesting characters, which should make it a better game. But it's not. The problem is that the combat is atrocious. It's somehow worse than pillars, you have no conception of what is strong or weak (until you die) and very little relevant information is transmitted to you. It's very clunky, in that sense its very faithful to old CRPG's. You can easily softlock yourself out of encounters in the intro chapter by picking the wrong build for your main character. As with pillars, there are too many filler items, potatoes, tomatoes, milk, look I don't give a shit about this, just take it out. This game is just proof that people will blindly praise anything that calls itself a CRPG. As usual the games systems are needlessly complex, with 50 different kinds of dodges and damage, that no one is going to care about because the combat fundamentally sucks. Obsidian do not understand how to make gripping story driven games, they have not made one since New Vegas, people need to realise this. My only blind spot is PoE 2.
To be honest this game falls off somewhere around the middle. It just gets repetitive especially because of the enemy types being nearly identical most of the time. The shooting, the levels and the world are all cool, like a very cheesy version of Judge Dredd or Blade Runner. But the game gets boring. In my opinion. Which to be fair also happened in Duke Nukem 3D
It is a roguelike that on the surface level just has cool abilities, mutations, cybernetics, visuals and soundtrack. Underneath it has some incredibly refined systems and the interactivity with the world is second to none. It is procedural generation done right. The enemy design is varied and exciting, as are the descriptions of them, and the descriptions of everything else. The bullshit with the devs doesn't matter. Just buy the game
The game is really good for what it is, reminiscent of Into the Breach and Terror from the Deep as other reviews say. In my own opinion-not speaking as someone who is particularly genius at turn-based games-this game is not too hard. Easy should be your first playthrough because you will not realise what kind of mistakes you are making and what tools you are not using, but after that it will be fine if you think closely about all your progression choices. The soundtrack and atmosphere is good, but the layouts and enemy types are limited. It could have used more content.
