My worst purchase in many years, and not because of bugs - my comp handles this game surprisingly well. But after first 10 hours of gameplay when everything is shiny and new I couldn't stop noticing that the world is empty, there is very little to do, most side quests have no depth and the main quest is all about Johnny, not my character. The first game from CDProject Red that I have no desire to replay or recommend to anyone.
10 hours playing: For my intellectual logical side and for the part endlessly fascinated with everything new complicated and weird it is a delicious feast. Such quirky disorganized world made from different parts of millions of worlds and times. Anything possible. You can stick any oddity there, any person or creature - and theirs presence won’t be weird. Weird is new normal in Numenera. This world has endless possibilities as a playground. Not as much as Sigil, possibly, but that city itself was more organized, structured, wholesome, it had that feel of the crossroad, main one, the Capital of All Crossroads. Living in Numenera is like living in the giant junkyard, filled with all sorts of nonsense, disconnected and random. It has it’s charms, I enjoy world-exploring side of the game immensely, but emotionally it fails to engage me. I do not care for my avatar and for my party, I sometimes feel fleeting compassion for NPC, but that’s all. No deep emotional connection at all. And here I’m really disappointed. I wanted to live in Sigil, my heart was broken for Deionara, I adored Morte and Nordom, names of most NPC from PST are still stuck in my memory, hell, I’ve replayed whole game second time to save every member of my party in the end. This one… it’s one play-through only. One highly enjoyable play-through. In the world where AAA RPG titles have dialogue wheels it’s a lot. I really missed walls of mind-chewing text and crazy ideas and intellect as the main skill. It’s better than I feared It’s worse than it promised to be. P.S. About graphics: Dear InExile, Nameless One is ugly done right, Last Castoff is ugly done WRONG! Why?! My eyes are bleeding every time I move camera to close to them or open the inventory. 20 + hrs playing: It came to the point where I do not feel a pull to continue playing. I’ve just entered Bloom after awfully constructed battle with Sorrow and Specter reveal. All of that supposed to make some emotional impact on me, I think. And I felt nothing. After many hours of playing moving pictures on the screen are still just that There is something very wrong with storytelling in this game. And with graphics. And with voicing. And with animation. And… OK, I don’t know if I’m gonna to finish it just for the sake of finishing with so many good games around and beautiful classics waiting for rerun. Such a waste of world, ideas and predecessor’s legacy! Such a waste…
