The equipment durability and repair system make this game somewhat inferior to Eschalon I in my opinion. By hiring a blacksmith to repair my gear, I repeatedly went broke. And I repeatedly broke ingame items due to regular use only to realize later after I had saved, since I only camped to repair. So that kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. Still a good game, and your experience is very configurable when you start. To be fair, this also provides a solution to the savescumming spam option in the previous game. But also I noticed that the game is actually not fully turn-based, because if an animation, for example the movement of the giant beetle monster, takes a long time, the player can simply button mash faster to trivialize combat. There are puzzles and surprises and fun though. If you loved Book I then I recommend this, just be careful setting up your game rules.
