The game is very nice, has a great feeling to it, the world is wonderful... however a few things I really though brought it down are: - the beginning of the game (the pump) is rather hardcore, the rest is way too easy and fast - the main duration of the game is not spent playing, but rather watching poorly acted dialogues or waiting for april to walk through empty screens, which while adding a feeling to the game are a pain when they must be gone through numerous times. - the end of the story just goes too fast compared to the beginning. Stark side all happens at once, without any real story to it. The second point is really a bummer, and creates more frustration at reading subtitles to skip as fast a possible the dialogues rather than just playing.
I got this game when it first came out on PC. And was bugged, which is a shame. Now the only downside to this zelda-esque futuristic adventure is its length. I finished it in a week end, which is NOT what I am expecting from full priced videogame. Now on GoG, at Gog prices, this is an excellently spent 10$.
While the first three M&M are now a bit on the older side, 4&5 is what I consider the best heroic fantasy RPG available to date, with a wonderful story that goes from the bright to the dark side of xeen, giving you a really strong and unkillable avatar... until you finish 4&5 and try the bonus Clouds of Xeen dragon where the first dragon will make you totally regret not being a power leveling adept. MM6, while not as good as its two predecessors would still be worth a full 4 stars on its own, with maybe a half star bonus just for the pleasure of bombing whole cities with meteors. Unfortunately, while it is easy to be a savior, being a bad-ass is very hard, and while I did kill all citizen, I never got under a real bad reputation, which is a real shame.
