Lacks good UI or guidance. Liked the original. This one is just too annoying to navigate without helpful tips and guidance.
I think the two most important things to take away from my review are regarding bugs, and balance. TL;DR... it's fixed. I see some reviews from 2018 complaining about bugs, some stating "avoid until it's fixed". Well, it must be fixed! I haven't encountered any issues. I have also not seen any real balance issues. Random encounters while traveling tend to be easy, and if you explore areas that are in your "starting area" later on down the game, you'll feel fairly omnipotent. This is to be expected. I've had to re-do a handful of combats after rushing in with reckless abandon, but that is also expected. Balance seems good, to me. I'm playing on normal. I was also warned before running into swarms that you need to use AOE damage on them, or magic. I'm not sure whether that was just on a loading screen tip, or if it was elsewhere as well. So... seems like the developer has fixed those issues, as called out in a seemingly rather significant patch ("enhanced edition"). Good for them! So, without those issues, how is it? For me, it's great. It reminds me of Baldur's Gate more than any of the other cRPGs that have been coming out (Pillars, Tyranny, Divinity). I enjoyed Pillars ad Tyranny both, but this is much closer to the experience I was looking for. I couldn't get into either Divinity game... I wanted to like them both, but they didn't hold my attention at all. If you're not aware, Pathfinder is very similar to AD&D 3.5. If you're familiar with that, you'll feel quite at home. If you're familiar with most any D&D game, it'll be fairly straight forward and you should be pretty comfortable with the spells and abilities. If you're NOT familiar, I'd recommend looking up some builds online and picking one you like, to start. The amount of options for character creation can be a bit overwhelming. Or wing it, you can always respec later! Thanks for reading... I hope you pick up the game, and enjoy it as much as I do!
