The quests are so bug ridden that you cannot complete a large number of them, quest-related narrative is useless - either you spend days figuring out something (that may not work at all due to a bug) or you find the solution online.
The fights come in two flavours: way too easy and too hard, nothing in between. Some of the surface effects are simply annoying, they have over-complicated things. For example, 90% of the time in harder fights your healing potions will kill your or at least damage you severely. Also, some fights literally can take over an hour - I have no time or patience for such a grind.
Crafting, which was great in D:OS 1 is completely lack luster here.
All the polish the first part had is sadly missing here. I suggest to come back to this game in six months or so, maybe they have ironed out the worst bugs by then.
The shekels of limitation are melted away to allow you to become your character as much as a video game can allow. If you have ever played an RPG or wanted to this game is for you. Take your time with it and allow yourself to become a part of the world.
So let me start by saying this for people than want a TL;DR of my review......the game is awesome in every way, from story, to combat, to voiceovers, to graphics, loot is awesome. You will not regret buying this game . I have invested 550 hours in it and I ams still playing it and enjoying the heck out of it. There are bucketloads of different ways to play this game so get in it and enjoy.
Now the review :D.
Let me start with the good:
Whoever wrote the main story and the story for each origin character should get his oun monument. It is so good and interesting. Even the smallest sidequest is very well written. You will have so many great, funny, interesting conversations with different characters in this game that is just mindblowing. I would like to tell you more about this but i dont want to put any spoilers here.
The turn based combat is also amazing. I never liked turn based combat in games but in this one it is so good. You take your time each turn because there is so many different objects and surfaces to interact with that can help you in different combat scenarios. If you plan your coimbat before actually engaging by investigating the battlefield you will have a blast. It is not necessary to do that to win but it is so much more fun to use surroundings to enhance your abilities or just vreate pure chaos on the battlefield.
The sountracks are very atmospheric and beautiful to listen to.
The graphics are stunning. Even when you zoom in on the characters. There is such attention to details in this game. Well i wont spend time on this because you can see it from pictures...to think this is an indie developer...this game has better graphics than some AAA titles from huge companies.
The bad:
Well honestly other than game crashing 2 times on me in all my 550 hours and few minor bugs that you hardly notice...I dont have any other problem with this game.
As I said...you will not regret this purchase, unless you just dont like RPG games or top down games.
One of my fav--
Great british voice acting
Lots of mods!
Lots of replayability
Option to play in story mode which is a relaxing difficulty for those who want to play the story
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