Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition

It's far too complex for its own good. Maybe ten minutes or so in the character creator alone, a mountain's worth of information thrown at you off the bat, sophistacted system . . . that's too sophisticated, dialed up to eleven as opposed to being balance between user-friendly and in-depth, it instead is at the extreme end. It's not a game for me, it's unacceptable, for me, to have to go to such lengths, probably even do research off-game for higher difficulties or "endings" by the feel of it in the first few minutes of actual gameplay and combat. I buy the game, download, play and enjoy the game, that's how it's supposed to happen i.e. without any delays, distractions or far too complex a system being that's there disrupting immersion and punishing insufficient time or otherwise lack of dedication in studying its systems/mechanics. I can't quite put into words, it's like when you're in a ranked match, playing League of Legends, you know at minute seven or eight that you're not going to win, and that it's just a waste of time and nerves at this point, and I know that it'd not be a good time for me playing the game . . . back to waiting for Divintiy III and Elden Ring's team to release an expansion, or something . . . this game isn't it.

For those that aren't aware, of the characters you can recruit, a majority are deviant lifestyle characters. Name your letter. While a Succubus type demon would be something you'd expect this from, having less than half of the recruitable characters straight might be something you want to be aware of before buying. I think it breaks down to 1 straight male, 1 straight female, and the rest are bi, trans, etc.. I'll leave the gameplay to others. But the feel of it is very much like a remaking of their Original Sin 1,2 rather than BG3. The opening beach scene after a crash is almost an exact look alike to OS 2. Would be nice to play a game without delving into societal issues of the day.

Its a bad RPG(soooo bad). And boring...

This game mentions 'female protagonist'. That was an understatement, considering that 80% of all characters of any significance whatsoever are female. I can understand that equal representation is important to some people, but the casting and writing for this game broke immersion after a couple of hours on account of the fact that there are no such populations to even compare it to. Seriously, there are no male characters in this world who have a voice and role that is anything other than a merchant, a failure, or a disposable minion. It it weren't so horrendously weighted by this caricature of gender imbalance, this would be a tremendously enjoyable game. In terms of the D&D RPG experience, I think Pathfinder does a much better job that D&D mainly because of what it hasn't removed - alignments, which are the glue that holds that universe together. Without alignments, you really descend into something that is basically a renaissance faire, where people are just wearing costumes and looking for their next spicy evening with someone. Alignment is the basis for the many divergent (Mythic) paths you can take in this story, and allows you to enjoy some very different playthroughs depending on the type of character you're willing to play. That is a huge value. Character detail is just phenomenal. The amount of classes and related abilities is just amazing; many games of this style do not go to the lengths of facilitating things like mounted characters, or facilitating the dark alignments with classes that should be there (cultists, etc). Gameplay feels very streamlined, and some or all of the steps in the process can be accelerated to levels that surpass the usual turn based mechanic. Its great to see the active mod community, and know there are customizations available if you want them. Overall, I am certain I would give this game a 5 if the writing had been less extreme on the gender slant. But sadly, it isn't, and that does the rest of the game an injustice.

The title says it all really.