Story is cool, doesn't force you into being the protagonist. Combat can be challenging on occasion in the beginning but this game is, like any skill-based RPG, very susceptible to being min-maxed. Fights end on turn 3 by the second act if you spec properly -- i.e. prioritize high initiative / wits buffs on all equipment, give at least teleport or a mobility spell to each character, invest 4 skill points (1 scoundrel + 3 polymorph) and put adrenaline + skin graft on everyone). Lock down victory turn 1 with 2 turns worth of AP before the enemy has done anything, mass evasion turn 2, clean-up turn 3. OP OP PROS: - cool level design, nice environments - spell / skill trees are really flexible and make for some truly unique combinations (like maxing poison resistance + shackles of pain on all your champs so you can cast mass poison orgy spells on yourself for imba healing while shackles ignores enemy poison resistances and melts them in a blink). - equipment leveling feels very satisfying - genuine sense of progression towards becoming a god on the battlefield CONS: - sometimes character models are hard to click (but much improved over D:OS 1) - I wish persuasion was shared across the party for dialog the same way bartering is for trading so that I don't have to switch away from my main character to red prince all the time for persuasion checks - long reload times - NPC corpses don't give full loot of everything they're carrying
First thing: this game is point-and-click. 6 hours in so here's what I've experience so far: PROS - nice artwork, visuals, atmosphere - main story is interesting CONS - every dialogue choice seems to lead to the same outcome - got blocked for an hour because I didn't walk close enough into the corner of a room to pick up the piece of gold lying on the floor; had to look up a walk-through to backtrack my way to that one piece of gold - every mission is go here, talk to this person, go there, talk to this other person, receive item, wtf is this item for, go back to first person, no seriously wtf is this item for, repeat It's a well made game for its genre but it also helped me realize I seriously detest this genre.
