I'd give this game a 7/10, but I'll round up because I did truly enjoy playing it. I think that it's more of a single playthough kind of game and you don't really get that much from additional playthroughs. Greedfall's biggest strength is the world itself. The 17th century fantasy aesthetic is very cool and some of the character designs are amongst my all time favorites (especially the guardians). However, I think that they fall a bit short with some of the themes and whilst I enjoyed most of my party, some of the characters felt pretty flat. Also, "things are about to get dicey," and "a bit of poison on my blade, and let's go" will probably be stuck in my head until my dying day. I think someone may have made a mod to fix that though. Overall, this is still a very solid game and I think that Spiders does deserve your money. I'm excited to see what they will make next!
Just finished playing through Divinity Original Sin 2 (which is amazing by the way), but it also got me thinking about how this game has truly raised the bar for RPGs. The quest design in this game is unparalleled. The way that your choices actually matter during even the most mundane quests is what has brought me back to this game time and time again. I've played it through 4 times so far, btw. To really hit home how phenomenal this game is, here are some of the things you may get to do on a single playthrough: - Take hallucinogens with animals - Take hallucinogens with people - Convince a suicidal person to not blow themselves up - Get in a prison fight - Win a rap battle - Put a baby in the oven - Bribe a bank teller - Name a vintage of wine - Act in a play - Get in a snowball fight - Overthrow an oppressive ruler - Help an old lady get her pan back - Release a horse demon - Rescue a narcoleptic dwarf I really could keep listing things forever, but I think you get the idea. This game perfectly balances mundane activities with more grandiose "saving the world" quests. One moment you're in a fight to the death with a WIld Hunt general, and the next you're playing gwent at a tavern. I don't have very many complaints about this game, but I will say that some of the face models haunt my dreams. I get that it's pretty unavoidable for a game of this scale though.
