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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Obsidian Edition

Okay but fails to engage. Buggy.

It's a solid effort, the game mechanics are complex but approachable. The scenery and world is quite impressive. Ultimately however, it failed to make me care about any of the characters. The quests are interesting enough but somehow also shallow: brings no real change to the world and there's no real point to doing anything. The ship and ship combat idea was interesting but again, there's no reason to engage with it, there's no reason to upgrade anything, and doing the ship combat through a text menu interface was honestly a bad choice. And then the death blow: late game bugs that occurs deep into a DLC dungeon and breaks the game. I'd have to load a save several hours earlier and skip the DLC entirely to be able to play the game. It's been a known issue for 5-6 months at least, so I don't expect I'll ever be able to finish the game.

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