Pillars is absolutely brilliant and features great worldbuilding, beautiful art and pretty damn fun combat. I'll focus on the issues I've run into because lots of people are raving about it and there are still some problems. The biggest problems: - The Stronghold feels tacked on. Upgrades are mostly useless and you probably won't travel there unless it's to do the megadungeon underneath. - Lack of AI for player NPCs; not asking for much, but automating things like knockdown would go a long way. - Ciphers are really strong and there aren't enough enemies to counter them. Meanwhile, wizards are very strong but have weird restrictions on what they can cast (their magic isn't more powerful and in fact, is harder to position). Rangers are also in need of serious tweaking, even if they're still not horrible. - Easy to abuse terrain to defeat enemies. All of these problems can and hopefully will be fixed when expansion(s) for this game enter development. None of them are as bad as they sound. This is the first game I've bought at full price in years and I don't regret it one bit.
