Having just completed 100% of the game in 2 playthroughs within 120 hours of gameplay, I can honestly recommend this - despite rough production edges - to anybody liking good, challenging and story-driven "old-school" RPG games with actual consequences of ingame choices. + Excellent Viking atmosphere through music and world detail. + Simple but well made "rise to power" story with moral ambiguity. + Great combat on par with XKOM series. + Rich character build choices: ++ Stats do matter in dialogues, be who you want to be and role-play as you see fit. You won't be able to get it all in one go. ++ Customizable squads thanks to plethora of skill choices makes combat fun till the end. - Developer studio likely ran out of budget/time during production, lots of elements feel unifished or lack polish of an AAA game: -- Weird controls, not always responsive world interactions. -- Poor camera controls -- Minimum voice-overs -- Modern font (!?) -- Occasional bug, fixable through re-load. -- Character visual creation lacks detail, but doesn't matter in end as there's no zoom during dialogues. -- Funny movement animations.
These are actually nice. The haircuits give some funky and silly options. Keep it up CDPR and now off I go to the W3 Expansion Pass
