As a long-time player of RPGs, I cannot understand why this game is so highly rated. - I am 24 hours in (!) and barely anything has progressed on the boring "murder mystery" plot point with which the game opens. For a game that touts its combat system so highly, there was hardly any combat in this time, perhaps around a dozen battles. - In a world where every dinky little thing can be picked up, you will be hopelessly sifting through piles of junk in no time, and you're not sure what has any real value. It is excessive and easily the worst game I have played in this regard. - The combat is nothing special. Your characters can do so few actions with their turns, and both your characters and the enemies perform them sluggishly. And while your characters are pratically overflowing little things they can use in combat (see inventory, above), it is rare to feel like you do anything cool or powerful. - Expect to hear a cacophony of accents including Russian, Scottish, Irish, English, US Southern, and more as you walk through a supposedly isolated little town. NPCs banter continuously in 5-second loops. Character dialogs are verbose and goofy. Dialog options are usually binary and sometimes say things so ridiculous that I didn't feel like my characters were really my own, a big problem in an RPG in this style. It just feels off in all of the important areas for this type of game. I'm calling it quits.
