This game is for die-hard Pathfinder experts, and you better know what your doing with your character. The game looks good for the style of rpg that it is, but it's well neigh unplayable if you are not a pathfinder system expert. There is not enough to like about this game to get away from the negatives. The camera is pretty poor, not a fan. The main map is poor. I supposedly have the resources of the queen at my disposal, but I can't tell how to get where I need to go, or waste valuable resources by having to fight a battle I was trying to avoid or reload. not fun. The journal entries have books worth of flavor text but sometimes difficult to even remember what they are for as the 'quest' doesn't match the place you get too half the time and while it may have said that you need to go HERE and DO THIS, it is not in your journal entry. The game starts out OK, but then after a few dozen hours you have to play the 'Crusade', a half baked under designed add-on that drains your resources, is being fought against an AI that is over provisioned and is very very difficult to manage. I guarantee you won't figure out how to recruit replacements for your army the first time. It hard to even fill out your armies because you can't tell what the unit does before you buy it, and you are pretty much stuck with whatever rando allotment the game gives you. And you need about twice as many as you could ever possibly afford. You can turn it off, but then a lot of stuff is disabled and it's hard to figure out what to do. I quit playing when I realized i was literately wandering around the map trying to find stuff since there is not a way to know where stuff is ahead of time. Characters, are sorta voiced, but not really when you want them to be, and they are all very specific pathfinder mythic type characters. I know you can re-spec a few of them but that's not really what I call a good time. It's pretty necessary if you don't want to get the floor mopped with you all the time. Every single enemy is resistant to everything. All the time. With very few exceptions so you better know which exact specific thing beats that resistance and have that character in your party, that sword equipped, that spell memorized etc.... You know that sword you sold four hours ago, well now you need it to beat this one enemy. The Loot drops make no sense. You end up with all these no armor/low armor characters in the beginning but none of that type of loot drops. Need two rapiers? Worry, because you can't buy them anywhere, but every weird ass sword from the equipment manual can be bought and you'll sell a lot of 'useful' stuff, if were were a normal weapon. Traveling on the map sucks big time. you have no idea where the next arror press will take you. Will it take me to the destination I want to go, or randomly make a turn before I get there and drop me someplace I need to avoid. You'll never know. Time is tracked, and you have to actually rest your party even though nothing has happened since the last time you rested except for travel. and then you will get surprised while you are un-buffered. Remember all those low armor/no armor characters. yep, they will be in front. If you are a pathfinder expert
I had high expectations for this game, but it has many flaws. The initial characters you meet are great and neat. They talk to you, talk to each other, react to things going on, etc. They really add to the enjoyment of the game. Then you start running into the filler. You know, those characters that don't' really have a reason to exist except to add meaningless dlc or some backer's wish. Half of the companions are filler. Some do not even talk at all. Not one word. Some are quite interesting (at least looking), but they don't contribute to the enjoyment of the game at all. Hours and hours of silence if you bring them along with you. This also happens if you stop following Eloas around and finish the game early. I like to steal stuff in these games. Why do I have buy a rogue from the bar or do it with a non-rogue character for over half the game until I then get an under powered rogue to follow me around. Damm annoying it is. Ship combat is the worst thing ever. It's like having sex with your clothes on. Just ram them and let the slaughter proceed. Also no real reason to get another boat. It's just not needed, and you can't crew/use more than one anyway. You also can't salvage a boat. I just killed every single person on this boat, it's better than mine.. and I just leave it there. stupid. I liked being able to upgrade my party's existing gear but where are all the soul-bound weapons? Very few and far between. You know what would be neat, have every companion have one from the get-go. And then when I got a few, there was no time to get them charged up. Same with the guns, took forever to find a special gun or six. It also makes no sense that I can buy a superb weapon for cheaper than I can upgrade it myself. It shoudn't hurt more to use the crafting system. Overall if you liked the first one you'll enjoy this one. It's prettier, but not sure It's what I expected.
