PSA: GOTY

[Frumpis]

Ignore the haters. Just ignore them altogether. The reviews are not lying: this game is unbelievable. It transcends genre and it tells a genuinely gripping story that will leave you breathless. Oh, and the combat? It's fantastic. I accidentally power-leveled myself from 22-25 because I was having so much fun learning the attack patterns of the enemies in [insert spoiler for level here].

Play this game. Don't read about it, don't watch trailers, don't engage in the discourse. Play. This. Game.

That is all.

[shadow82]

I'd agree if not 99% of the reviews were just based off of prologue and some portion of act I, and you can feel that. To be fair the game is good, art direction, ost and voice over deserve recognition, but the gameplay overall fall flat on itself after a while. Some reviewers mentioned that as a psa, and they were not wrong, few reviewers that provide feedback after completing the game by the way, there might be a reason.

BG3 all over again.

[Frumpis]

Originally posted by shadow82:

I'd agree if not 99% of the reviews were just based off of prologue and some portion of act I, and you can feel that. To be fair the game is good, art direction, ost and voice over deserve recognition, but the gameplay overall fall flat on itself after a while. Some reviewers mentioned that as a psa, and they were not wrong, few reviewers that provide feedback after completing the game by the way, there might be a reason.

BG3 all over again.

Yeah, so I don't want to get into spoilers, but I would say that there is a lot more depth to the combat than I see people giving it credit for, especially after act 2. Reviews from people early in the game are likely coming from people frustrated and confused about the parry/dodge systems. Fair enough. It's not an easy game. As someone who has beaten every From Software game (and many other soulslikes), I am finding this combat to be very rewarding and enjoyable, more so the deeper into the game I get. Put it this way: I hate turn-based games. I really do. Yet I'm loving this one.

I could see people having issues with the gameplay, depending on how they approach their party and build-crafting, but 16 hours in, I would not echo those sentiments at this point. I will make sure to update and/or leave a final review once I've completed the story.

[Ambrosius Costeau]

Originally posted by shadow82:

I'd agree if not 99% of the reviews were just based off of prologue and some portion of act I, and you can feel that. To be fair the game is good, art direction, ost and voice over deserve recognition, but the gameplay overall fall flat on itself after a while. Some reviewers mentioned that as a psa, and they were not wrong, few reviewers that provide feedback after completing the game by the way, there might be a reason.

BG3 all over again.

BG3 last act was actually amazing it’s just that it was a complete buggy mess and the ending was lackluster, I played it recently and it was dramatically improved, as for this games I’m really not feeling act 2 it’s good but nowhere near as good as act1, I like verso and monoco though, but the last dungeon which start with M was complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I hope act 3 is a bigger improvement.