I've read the description of this game and thought, that there is all that stuff announced, that I am missing in Stardew Valley. And so I have tried this game out. But first of all: This game is really just an Alpha. You find everywhere notes from the programmer, what they will implement there. And I don't know, if I am just to stupid to find a woman for a quest or if she even doesn't exist. Because this is an Alpha I don't risk to score the possibilities you have... There will be changed a lot, I think. But until now, this seems to be promising. For example I don't know, if this is already possible, but there are things implemented, for when you have owned a shop, where you can buy right now. There are buildings for some professions implemented, which I think, you can get into. I am really excited of looking forward to this And now the landscape is lovingly crafted. A fine lush nearly natural cultivated landscape. You can easily feel like being in "The Shire" from LotR. It s just made great!
Commentar for the first: I do not review the GOG-Version. Arcanum could have been a great game if the developer had invested more time to wellwrought the game. There are many great elements in the game, which was the best of their time. Arcanum was one of the earliest game with a nonlinear story, a crafting system and it has a very good character system. When i first played the game, i was fascinated of all of the elements, which were even better as other great RPGs (for example BG2) But then there are the problems of this game... First, Arcanum has its bugs. There are not very bad bugs, but they are there. Then the system is kind of unbalanced. Playing a charismatic leader is like wanting remain stupid. Every kill of your friends won't give you XP. You will be much better in the end without friends. Furthermore you have only limited ways to control your friends. And they really will act stupid. So they can get stuck following you and you have to go back then to help them out. You have multiplayer, what doesn't really work if you don't have the time to travel between the cities over many many hours. Outside of the towns and some singular points there is nothing. In single player you have a fast walk option to skip the travel between these singular points. In multiplayer you really have to walk all the way with nothing important and use several real-time hours for that. So multiplayer is not really useable for the story. Nevertheless there are is a small scenario which you can use for multiplayer. But this scenario is even more unbalanced than the main game... But i like this game. Arcanum tries to give you a feeling you can do everything. You will be released to the world and you can work on your own. (Compared to all other games, which did exist in 2001). Many quests do have different ways to solve them. The world is fascinating, has its believable history and all in all the world seems to be more than only to wait for you as a hero. Arcanum is an unpolished diamant. It could have been a brilliant but the developer didn`t cut it.
