Prepare yourself for disappointment. With the inexplicable aid if ChatGPT (mentioned in the credits but kept mostly concealed everywhere else I've seen), Goblinz has taken an interesting and enjoyable series of lore-filled puzzle games and concluded it with...this. Without express spoilers, if you can think of the laziest, most stereotypical reason for the first two games' plot, you've probably guessed the ending. If you're invested in the story, the message here is that you've wasted your time. Gameplay is fine; no innovation, no graphical improvements, exactly like the last two games, which is not bad thing. I actually appreciated that they kept the look consistent despite the fact that so much time has passed. But the combination of the lazy ending and the supremely lazy use of slop content generator engines burned through any goodwill or nostalgia that I had for the series. True Fear: Forsaken Souls 3 is bad, but in retrospect it also makes the first two games worse.
When people claimed that the price was higher than the two DLCs separately, the answer was not, in fact, to raise the price of the individual DLCs so that they would now be higher than this ludicrous price-point.
Unfortunately, GOG has chosen to allow publishers to take away games that we've purchased (for instance, Saint's Row IV: Game of the Century Edition, which ran fine on my potato laptop) and replace them with things we definitely did not purchase (Saint's Row IV: Re-Elected, an unimproved, buggy down-grade that laughs mockingly at older rigs). Cannot in good conscience recommend a game that is demonstrably worse for retro gamers, as it is now 11 years old but requires a much more recent setup to play.
Having fallen in love with Greedfall (and finishing a recent replay of it), I decided to take one step back in the developer's evolutionary tree to The Technomancer. All of the things that I expected, positive and negative, were there (a rich world that I wanted to learn more about, horrible voice acting, interesting and challenging combat, a metric ton of jank, &c.). However, I have had so many quests, esp. side quests, glitch out or bug out on me (running on a Windows 10 machine which is no slouch), CtDs, full computer restarts mid-cutscene, and the like that I eventually had to give up on it. I wanted to play more, but the feeling I got from the game was that I would not be permitted to do so. Just wait for the sequel to Greedfall.
