First of all, I liked the setting quite a bit. However, as someone who is mainly interested in the story, the characters and the roleplaying, I was very disappointed. Planescape: torment or baldur's gate 2 this is not. The game is very railroaded, your choices barely influence the game, You make a lot of the choices before the game proper starts (in conquest mode), which mainly determines flavor text and which faction is located where. However,only the single the choice you make in act 1 (a couple of hours into the game) determines the rest of the game. The choice you make there places you on a rail that you cannot deviate from for the rest of the game.. If you ally with a Kyros faction in act 1, all interactions with non-Kyros factions will end with you murdering them, no matter how well you get along with them. If you allied with the non-Kyros faction in act 1, all interactions with non-Kyros factions end without murdering them. The game world does change depending on your actions, you just can't choose your actions. Characterization and character development of the companions is almost entirely missing. You find out everything that there is to know about the companions when you first meet them in a giant loredump. There are no further quests or interactions centered on the companions later. For example, one companion has a headdress sealing her powers forged by some of the factions in the game. Quite a bit of the initial conversation is about this headdress that she wants to remove, but you can never act on this while talking with these factions that made it. Finally it should be mentioned that the game ends very abruptly. A lot of mysteries arise and questions are posed, absolutely none of which are answered before the credits suddenly start rolling. If you mainly want a good story, character development, roleplaying opportunities and a world that changes according to the choices that you as a player make, this not the game for you.
