I liked the story very much - the voice actors did a very good job and the atmosphere was always great. The gameplay is solid - the campaign is more of a RPG then a RTS. The maps are beautiful and bear great details - but the unnecessary backtracking and permitted fast travel for some instances are a bummer. And there are still a lot of false audio tracks played, wrong text lines, not translated text lines and item descriptions and so on. All in all I loved the 50 hours I needed to complete the campaign!
I very much enjoyed this game. The world and its story is quite good, the different environments bring enough change of scenerie that you don´t get bored by it. The game mechanics are great, too. The fighting and its combo mechanics work very well and lead to fluent encounters and precise evil-stomping. The camera is often in the way though, especially when the character fights near a wall. I had some frustrating moments because of the camera doing its own thing. The ledge grabing and such sometimes doesn´t work as it should. That are two minor complaints from me. The puzzles are cool and not unfair, some took me a little bit but ulrimately via try and error I could figure all of them out. Boss encounters could have been a little better balanced, some earlier ones felt much harder then the later ones. But all in all the boss fights were good. Cut scenes were great overall but some awkward cuts in picture and tone were noticable. Overall the game experiance was great, it took me around 17 hours to complete my first playthrough.
What a lovely experience! The artwork and music score is beautiful, the gameplay fun and the story intriguing. The writing is neat and the characters grow on you rather quickly. Took me around 13 hours for my first play through. I definitely recommend this game if you don´t mind reading a lot and like to have a story driven game.
