(Playing on normal on all settings, not sure if the Hard difficulty changes some of the things outlined below) The music, the art aesthetic, even the character building is all very well done. The voice acting is strange but I think it is because the dev team are Hungarian so I imagine they sourced locally. It is not terrible voice acting though and given a fantasy title it even adds to the aesthetic of a different world. The battle system is a bit more updated then other crawlers but still maintains the classic feel. I am only just under 10 hours in and I have been loving the secrets in the levels, the artifacts you get to find treasure/secrets, and the fact that when I get a new artifact I WANT to go back to the last stage and see what is hidden that I saw but could not reach because I did not have the required tool. The story is easy to follow and is not bad. I think that the team (apparently under 100 people in this studio) knew better than to take the story TOO seriously. In that I mean the reason your character takes on the quest is rather silly. You do only actually create 1 character and the rest join you, however, you are able to redistribute the points whenever so it does allow some strategic flexibility. This may turn some folks off though because there is not a charge or downfall to making these changes. I had a fight I noticed I needed more AoE spells so I spec'd all my character(s) abilities to lean more AoE. If I want to change it and try a different path later no problem. Also you can respec ability points and actual abilities separately so you do not have to do both any time you want to try out new things. Support a small dev team and check this game out. Worth the cost imho.
I guess I am one of the few that have had no issues playing this on my system. Granted it is a i7 quad, 8GB RAM and 960M GTX video card so not a slouch but it is not amazing by any means. There have been a few hitches with Frame rate here and there but nothing that took me out of the world or broke my concentration. I also have it running textures High but everything else Medium. Have not tried it with all high settings. Figured it was running fine I would let it be for now. I have started the story stuff but wanted to find all the animals on the planet I am on. Might be the only planet I bother with that so figured might as well get it done and out of the way. The game will get horribly repetitive. It is a great game for casually playing while watching some movies or something. I do not see the story getting very in depth. All in all I am content with the title but it had a huge hype train so I get the disappointment. TL;DR: Game is fun and casual, not in depth and has some opitimization issues (I did not experience many myself). pick it up on sale.
