Was excited for this game, but it is unfortunately a total miss. Amnesia: Dark Descent was an awesome experience. Rebirth feels like a walking simulator. My biggest problem with the game are the constant interruptions. You can't go 5 steps without the game taking away control of your character. A memory, a mini cutscene, something. It does not let me play the game... It's way too excessive. Something that I felt was done right in Dark Descent was the fact that you were kept on edge during your exploration with the pieces of lore well spaced apart and interesting. Rebirth just felt like you're pressing W to run through a well marked and linear track. The puzzling aspects of Dark Descent are also pretty non existent here.
Please note that I am not giving this game a low score due to bugs or technical issues due to it being in early access. I believe the majority of those problems will be fixed. This game is not for Baldur's Gate fans. As expected, the title is pure marketing and a cash grab. This is Divinity OS 3 with a completely mangled DnD 5e ruleset (way too many liberties were taken deviating from the core rules) that breaks gameplay. Exploring the game is a tedious chore. Way too much meaningless clutter in the world, a camera view that reveals everything even if not in party sight (for example you can see 5 guys waiting to ambush you behind closed doors) and most combat encounters which should be exciting and action packed are a yawn fest due to the choice of having this be a turn based game which does not fit with the way the turns are done. You just play your turn and go watch a show while you wait for the AI to finish doing their stuff (which takes quite a while). Hoping for nice combat encounters as you would expect from a DnD game? Forget that, you'll just see turn after turn of goblins throwing grenades, magic and elemental arrows at you. The whole theme of the game is wrong. The narrator sounds like a porn star whispering in your ear instead of an actual story teller. The setting is too bright and jolly. The companions lack personality and most of them are just a bag of cringy and exaggerated reactions. The whole everyone in your party wants to bang you be it male or female and only known you for a little while is also present here which is dumb. Banter is non existent except for a few generic interactions. All in all, if you're interested in Baldur's Gate 3... just save your money and pretend this game never existed. If you're a fan of Divinity OS 2 and don't mind a sequel which uses a system that makes the experience worse than DOS2 but is still the same feel, then you may like this Divinity OS 3.
Bought this game on a "replay cRPGs" phase I had recently. Always loved the classics that you all probably know, BG, IcewindDale, Neverwinter Nights, Fallout, etc. In the process I also acquired new releases of the genre as I had also tried Divinity OS 2 and liked it a lot (combat balancing stupidity aside). The first feel I got of this game after a little while playing it was: this is such a massively unnecessary slog of text! I don't usually have any problems with this as I loved every single one of the previously mentioned oldies and they are largely based on text as well. PoE however does it in a way where I get bored and disinterested after a couple of dialogs. It's just so thick to read and dull, mostly just spewing out irrelevant information while I try to find out what the actual point of the conversation is... Combat is quite simply a clusterfuck most of the time, many of the actions you take aren't very transparent, movement and AI are weird as hell during the fights, the AI of the party members resembles that guy in your MMO party that went AFK to make a sandwich mid-fight. Almost every fight I've handled either was a massive victory or quite simply frustrating (where it should be tactical). As far as the story goes, it's just so dull and bland. The protagonist can sense and talk to souls, big whoop. Then I chase a robed guy I apparently saw at the start and gave me this power. Bureaucracies from defiance bay ensue and I have a stronghold (that serves no purpose...). After dealing with the duc and going for the second major zone I just couldn't handle the generic, bland feel of the game as the only thought going through my mind while playing PoE was "Why am I playing a crappier version of BG?".
