I got this through the kickstarter but followed none of the development so my review is based on the game as played. Overall this is a very flawed game but decent story based RPG. To start with the bad, the writing is so voluminous to the point that I was skipping a lot of the non-dialog text. For budget reasons, each dialog box is full of text simply describing the talker or the location. This could have been solved by showing the speaker in the dialog box like in Fallout but I guess they didn't have the money. For most of the game you can essentially skip combat. But there are a few places that your generally going to get into a fight. The problem is that there's no real tutorial for how combat actually works so you end up making guesses on level up whether this abilities is worth getting for the couple of times you'll desperately need it. As for the companions 2 of them are interesting, Aligern and Rhin. They are both interesting as companions and have interesting quests/storylines. Then there's Erritis who is a fun companion but a very light quest. Matkina is also a good companion but has nothing really going on story wise. Tybir is kind of just okay but Callistege is not great. The problem with the companion system is that you can only have 3 at a time and you can't have Callistege and Aligern in the same party. Since Aligern is actually interesting, Callistege falls by the wayside. Plus she doesn't have much of an ongoing storyline. Oom is not good either, kind of just half-assed. For the good, the locations are interesting (although after the first city not very big) and the story is decent until the ending where it falls apart. Overall if you're looking for a budget version of Planescape Torment or just another game similar to the old turn based RPG then you may want to pick this up. Otherwise there are better games out there.
