... really spoiled this whole thing. A pretty fun game up that part. The beginning is rough, but thems the breaks with low level adventuring. The middle is fun, though you don't quite get enough time for kingdom management and you will have to learn to edit save files as Kingdom stability is undermined by an event labled "opportunity." No biggie; just some text editing to fix something incredibly broken that can derail your whole game. Hardly even counts as cheating. More an inevitable necessity. The ending, though. Ugh. Blargh. What a miserable, disengaging slog. It says something for a game when I tune out, drop all the difficulty sliders to their minimum, and push through just to be done with it. I can manage a challenge; I dropped the Linnorm before taking Varnhold and the Dragon before taking Pitax. But constantly dealing with enemies that deal high amounts of unavoidable ability damage just sucks; if this was a game run at my FLGS, I'd flip the table and the birds and never come back. A solid 4 stars before the end game.
