A worthy successor to HOMM3, with the only drawbacks being the long waits for the AI to finish its turn and the Necropolis nerf. I hope that future releases will take inspiration from this game, not the disasters 6 and 7 were.
The people making this game attempted to catch the feeling of playing a game of D&D with friends around the table, and they absolutely succeed. The game is extremely fun, even though the plot is serious, the game allows itself to be completely bonkers. Some things should be absolutely immersion breaking, but they are so funny and out of the left field that they become your most fondest memories. Even the outdated graphics fit perfectly to the atmosphere, and while character customization is nowhere near as detailed like in other RPGs, it has a lot of replay value because of the NPC banter. I would even say that the NPCs elevate the game to a cult classic above everything else since I can imagine them not as characters written to fit inside the world, but as avatars of real people whoms eccentric behavior really spices things up.
It has bugs and clunky combat, but the atmosphere and writing put it up as one of the best RPGs I ever played and I'm saying that as a new player with no nostalgia attached to it.
