I have so many mixed feelings about this game. On one hand, I love the game, there is a lot they got right. On the other hand, it feels terribly optimized, and poorly balanced. The Good: Fun plot, fun characters, and many choices feel very impactful. They added a lot of new abiltiies and feats that once again are a blast to play with and try new builds. The pacing in this game was A LOT better than kingmaker and so is the leveling experience. World map travel and all the side games were much less of a chore and I found I enjoyed them well enough. They added a lot of detailed text information to make it easier to understand Pathfinder rules which was a great addition (needs more!). The Bad: Poorly optimized. The game is littered with bugs. The UI is annoyingly laggy and my powerful PC is juicing to run this on medium / medium-high settings. I played most the game on Core. With that said, most of the fights were very challenging but possible. Yet, I consistently ran into random fights that absolutely destroyed me. I am no expert in pathfinder but I still consider myself a power gamer and did a lot of min-maxing with respecs to get incredibly powerful builds. Despite that, there were some fights I had to turn down to daring and then some fights I had to turn down even more. Despite that i'd still give this game a 3 stars with the potential to be 4- 4.5. If you enjoyed kingmaker I think you'll enjoy this even more. Just give it some time to get the polish it needs...hopefully :)
