I finished in about 65 hrs. and overall enjoyed it. Pros: a decent RPG, pleasant graphics (especially the DeVespe DLC), no serious bugs, good story (and some nice sidestories), Petrus' voice! Cons: uninspired dialogues, no sense of humor, lame main character, no open world, woke game and enerving Russian accent of the natives (the worst!), endless running from A to B to fulfil silly tasks (collect ingredient a + b, make potion c, bring it to person d in place e). It did remind me of the Risen series. Found it worth at the reduced GOG price.
First of all, I like games that are a bit like interactive movies so I do not criticise the genre in general. I played for more than 7 hours (spend about 1 hour on solitaire only and got no reward of any kind, in fact I noticed the king that has just been there in the final staple, suddenly disappeared - disturbing) and completed about 73% of the game. The videos that give you the hints can be very lengthy, especially when you are forced to watch people sleep or only smile/nod for 2 min as they are apparently listening. The background story itself is not too bad. And then all of a sudden it's over. I have nothing but open ties, no answers why all my relations are suddenly fucked up and Davids final action is just absurd. I assumed there was a time lapse and I was missing out on too many videos to understand. I searched the real internet a bit watching the possible endings and was nothing but disappointed. Really? Three stars for the making, the original idea and some of the acting but it is unlikely I'll give a second go. When the king is missing, the king is missing.
