I was a backer but waited to play the Director’s Cut version. The good: - they tried to make the first few locations feel alive - Combat mechanics are good and deep - Invested into some good music (even if some of it is not 100% to my liking) - Good character level progression and builds The bad: - Poorly optimised performance clog - Game breaking save bugs, crashes, even in the Directors Cut version - Save system is overly complicated and worst of all, often doesn’t work, losing saves and having to retrace your progress - Quits without saving every time computer goes to sleep - story is meh and incoherent - Characters are meh - Dialogues are cringey - Inventory is bad - Gear puzzles are annoying not because they are difficult but because it’s really hard to click on the correct gear via the UI - Other puzzles are nothing to get excited about - Combat music is same same and gets annoying - Combat animations are long and annoying when you are seeing them for a hundredth time - Talking mouths are annoying as you can’t hear them clearly half the time - Some weapon puzzles are not solvable on lower detail settings - Dungeons scenery is not very coherent - lots of same looking recycled statues for whatever reason and can you never distinguish secret buttons - Weird difficulty spikes, often you’ll progress a level just fine and then meet a totally overpowering mob realising you need to go back and level up before you can continue here - A lot of enemies are just placed in locations without any discernible purpose other than for you to fight them - why does every dungeon have same goblins and acolytes?!? What are they doing there? Overall you’ll be completing the game because of your character level progression and somewhat interesting combat and be annoyed with everything else. After struggling for awhile you’ll start asking: is there a purpose to all this?!? Am I enjoying this?!? And realise that there are a lot better games you could be playing.
I love kids but in this DLC they are horribly represented（not to mention extremely buggy) Here kids just whine and cry all the time, add minimal contribution to the shelter, you main characters need to talk to calm them all the time, wasting the time they can spend on other productive things. Having a kid introduces many gameplay bugs: - your main character (and the kid) just get stuck in the kitchen, can't move or do anything at all (can't even feed the kid) - Frankie the trader comes very rarely or not at all Regretting I played with this DLC on
