So I came here looking for a new ARPG after beating Lords of the Fallen, and seeing all of these reviews I figured there's no way this can be bad. Yeah, I more or less deserved to lose $6 for thinking that. The biggest issue is everyone here is talking paragraphs about what the game did right and how ahead of its time it was, and then glossing over one very big flaw. The hit detection. The awful, awful, hit detection. The so bad the game is essentially unplayable hit detection. The "I'm a hack and slash with some cool ideas and really shit hacking and slashing" hit detection. The "Seriously just buy Dark Messiah Might and Magic instead" hit detection. The "It doesn't matter if they made a truly unique fantasy universe if the combat is like watching two toddlers swing foam swords at each other wildly" Hit detection. I want to give this two stars for at least being ambitious, but that slight competence elsewhere is what made me buy a fundamentally broken game. This was because of the opinion of people that are not really considering how well it has really aged, and what constitutes a good game as opposed to a game that was interesting for its time. People are free to their opinions and I do believe this may have been a genuinely good game back 13 years ago. Sadly while some games age like a fine wine and can be a breath of fresh air from the more annoying pitfalls of modern gaming , this was likely a really nice milkshake that curdled and maybe a cat pissed in it at some point between those 13 years of then and now.
