This game is exactly what i expected it to be. The things i expected of it was, a handmade open world that is full of loot and places of interest that are unique and i mean each and every one of them, a steep curved, clunky combat system with broken hit frames, but i managed to survive! A world full of interesting choices and consiquences and to my surprise an interesting protagonist that isn't just a talking puppet, but instead will take a stand and speak up acordingly to any situation that arises and make you reconsider the choises you make as you hear him. Overall the setting is very mature and the characters you face have their own ambitions and beliefs thus making the game feel alive and each interaction interesting. Thanks for this game Piranha Bites, i am looking forward to whatever game you are making next!
I have to write a review about this game! I am playing RPGs-all sorts of them- for like15 years! Well for those 15 years i had been a dedicated warrior-brute-force-fist-over-matters. It was rare that i chose the mage class just because it was a great hussle of micomanaging spells,potions and all that magic stuff... But after i tried to play steel-vs-steel-plus-support-mage in this game the 1st run(tactician) i was OWNED. I got to the point where i thought this game was badly designed and unfair as i had played XCOM that had rng turn base too but it was doable!. After a bit of research in the forum about why i was losing so hard i got a whif of why and the reason was that i didnt use the elements to my advantage. I went and try to make a party of a mage and warrior.... IT WAS A BLAST ! Setting up the environment as a trap for your opponent with your elemental mage be that fire to an oily surface or thunder to a watery one. Never before had i so much fun using cloth classes! All that comes from a guy that is fed up using melee classes after trying to play mage in any game and ending up using melee... There are also cool pazzles that require many skills of your party to progress. EVERY skill has a use out of combat and can be used to interact with the environment! YES you CAN break doors! At last an rpg that lets you use your destructive spells to destroy those pesky doors that had been stopping me for years in games! YES you can talk to a lonely crab and be friends with it! YES you can do a stand up show to destract the audience and steal a talking head! So much to do in this game, in so many ways! Buy it, its an indie game too so the money goes straight to the developers too! Good stuff!
I want to write this review to adress buyers who where like me before i bought the game in 2017. First off i want to say that i have no nostalgia over this game as i have never played it before. I was drawn to this game by the forums that praised it as the godfather of freedom of choise and also the hardcore RPG element. Now that i have played that i have played the game enough, i can definately say that it delievers: freedomwise and RPGwise. RPGwise. Its an OLD school rpg that translates every single action you take as the means of leveling up. That said and for example : hit a bandit with a Short Knife and you will get rewarded by expertiese points on that weapon and you will be able to be more profficient with it. You barter with a merch and you get a 2gold discount for the item, you will be rewarded for that as well! You can buy a 10k gold piece of armor for 3400(!) as you progress. Or you can just as well be the gung ho guy who axes questions! The world you are into -Morrowind/Tamriel has depth and weight -alot of it!. You can learn about it by asking npcs or reading actual books(ingame) that are mindblowingly well writen! As there is no actual main quest line, whatever you choose to do in this game just keeps you going on to learn about what happens next and whats your standing. And last but not least the element i enjoy the most about this game. The fact that there is no exclamation point over quest giving npcs! Yep there in none! And thats what makes it so charming! It makes you learn you ways around map and pay attention to what the npc has to say. For example if an npc wants you to get to point B from point A he will give you directions that you have to follow to get there. There is alot of exploration as the map is vast and alot of role playing involved as you have to take several descisions! There are complains about the combat system. Its a dnd based system based on dice rolls. You are not hiiting, your character does! Mods Highly suggested!
