You'll often find diamonds like this outside of the classic FPS genre, games that are incredibly engaging whilst having few quoted 'action' scenes. Games that spend all their time and effort building up characters, world building, asking fundamental questions to the player that to be brutally frank tell a much, much more engaging story then the latest FPS shooter. This game, is one of those games. This game is a adventure-drama, pick your own story experience, not unlike heavy rain, beyond two souls or Detroit: Become human. You start as a man who has suffered oblivion, you name, who you are and what you do are all a mystery to you whilst you attempt to solve a murder that has the stage set for a civil war. In the mean time you will slowly learn more about the world you live in which is very much alike and unlike our own current reality. A master class in world building all told through well voice acted characters and your own interal running dialouge will illumate you to its secrets. In short, the gameplay people will mostly be intereacting with will be dice rolls based on how you have built you character in certain aspects be they, intellect, psyche, physique or motoronics. If played earnestly this game may even reveal something about yourself you may have not known. You might be a staunch believer of socialist ideals, a champion of free market ideology, a conservative fascist or a idealistic centrist. You'll agree and disargee with many a character whilst you form your own opinions about the world around you. The majority of which will have some sort of effect on conversations or actions you encounter thorugh out the game in the form of unique dialouge choices or more often modifiers on dice rolls, increasing or decreasing your chances. All in all I wish there was more, for me its a bitter sweet experience. Sweet that I played such an amazing game that has me begging for more, bitter that its all ended and I feel a void is left. Really hoping for a sequel.
The successor of 'Pathfinder:Kingmaker' and it is not found wanting, certainly not in scope as the events takes place over a vast land that encompasses the ominous world wound the gateway into the abyss, nor the power you command both in regards to your own mythic might and the armies you lead. First and foremost the customisation. For choice this game is nigh unbeatable in character creation choice, there are 25 main classes that you can play as and over 150 subclasses in total. If there was a character you wanted to create to have the same or similar abilities to your fictional idol, you'd be able todo that with relatively few exceptions. Guts? Super easy. Vampire? No worries. Son Goku? You can do that! Frankly its overwhelming, whilst I would deduct points for that previously in Kingmaker, Owlcat have went above and beyond to make it as easy as possible to understand it all with both auto class leveling and detailed breakdowns of subclass +/- compared to others - 5/5 Secondly the campaign and story. It is not something everyone would cry for but a good story goes a long way and fortunately WoTR can claim to a well written story. Its not something that will make you cry, nor will you contemplate life after experiencing it but it can attest to well written characters, motivating plot points and twists and turns amongst it all that make for an emersive experience. - 4/5 Thirdly and arguably the most important, combat. Combat can be played in real time with pause and turned based where you can even swap between the two mid battle, truly a perfect combination and not either or purturbing fans of one or the other. When it comes down to it the combat is a flurry of complex abilities, buffs and debuffs, powerful magic and raw carnage that makes it all rather wonderous as it all fits together - 5/5 I wish I could go on but words a running short so I'll just say, yes this is a must buy at full price and if not at full price it is a must own title for any a fan of DnD.
