Don't even spend a single dime on this. Character moves awfully slow, monsters are far too strong and smack the life out of you within a few seconds, good weapons and armour found cannot be used until much later in the game, where the opponents get more frustratingly hard. The story is weak at best, sometimes lacks ties, confuses the player or else. All in all: Thumbs down as much as possible.
I do not at all agree with all those 5-star reviews. Missing buttons, corrupt savegames, lack of voices for about 50 to 60% of the game, at best average music (really, listen to it. Most of the times the music is just a one minute phrase, if at all. Often even patchworked by repetitions. Lack of atmosphere, too), lack of atmosphere. I DO prefer Dragon Age 2 or 3, the characters are far more charming and you can bind to them. No chance doing this here. IMHO, this is kind of an overrated Indie game. Even gfx are outdated by about 5 years or more.
I like the music and the graphics of the game -- the first being both decent and compelling, the latter just really, really beautiful. There are, however, a few things that make me only reate this game 3 stars. First of those is the duration. I am really getting sick of all those games being finished after less then 7 hours (it were a little more than 5 here, and I really dove into the environment...), basically the game ends where it should start. Second, savegames: Only at specific points when certain parts of a "mystery" have been solved? Really? Come on, when I need to quit playing I want to be able to quit playing! This is a no go. Finally: The game does not have a complex AI system, no enemies, no combatting. Just puzzles. And from a game that is reduced to that level I am very disappointed in the level of story deepness, evolving events. No character development (there are not really many characters...). All in all: Too flat and too short. Seems to be common those days esp. for the flood of indy games flushing the market.
Honestly, I cannot understand all the good reviews. The story is not very deep, indeed there is basically one and only one revelation which already reveals itself after about a third of the game. And just when you think the game starts, it ends. Really, I thought it was the introduction, but then the game was over. All in all no more than 2 hours and 20 minutes including the investigation of all rooms and every single item.
