This game is such a disappointment. So many things that DOS2 got right which this gets horribly wrong. Combat and general mechanics are alright I guess (glossing over the bugs) but the interface is painful, world scripting is spotty, you'll often be talking to the floor, and they apparently don't test their patches at all. It's just a mess. I do enjoy the story but even that breaks down in places. They've leveraged the copious pre-existing Forgotten Realms lore well enough at least. That's the only reason I'm playing it now, but if the game save (516) bug they just added isn't fixed soon I'll be forced to drop it like a hot rock.
Graphics and animation are good. Story is mildly interesting but by the time the story opens up I was so tired of the game I couldn't bring myself to care. The only character growth is upgrading your health, stamins, and reusable healing potions. You will want the stamiona though as what passes for combat is going to need it. The only choice of direction you have is the right way, or the wrong way that requires you to backtrack. Occasionally a side room will have a mostly useless treasure in it. This is basically a linear platformer with muddy, buggy controls. It's also short. Mercifully. It's not a terrible way to waste a day provided you want to end the day frustrated by a little purple haired brat that can't do what you tell her to. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it though
The story starts off interesting. The graphics are fine. There's growth in the things you do, and the gear you equip. But I'm afraid I simply cannot get past a far future spaceship game where the fighter ships can't move sideways. Basically at all. Or vertically. You can make a 2 meter sideways dodge, but heavens help you if you've accidentally stuck yourself in a corner. Oh, right, there's no reverse either. Make that 0.5 DOF. You're going to have to turn however many degrees to the side (or vertically), move forward however far is necessary to get around the obstacle, spin BACK around the required amount, THEN go forward toward your destination. And if that sentence was tedious or difficult to read consider the cost of doing this many, many times during your play of this game. During chases and races, while exploring mazes, and in the middle of dogfights. Literally your only movement controls are forward (at 3 different speeds) and stop. Your plain ordinary human legs can do better than the hi-tech I-didn't-even-play-long-enough-to-learn-what fighter ship; what possessed these developers to offer 0 mobility laterally or even vertically in *space*?!?
