The artstyle. Some locations and general art look gorgeous until they start loading in objects... And that's it.

This game has incredible technical difficulties with even such a small map and starting from act 2 they become so glaring it's insane they called THIS a full release:

Textures will pop up randomly even with max lod distance, textures will load with min res just to ENCHANCE when you look at them. Bodies of enemies will drop from the sky on loading. Every time you load you will hear your character equipping armor and items. Your summons will randomly stop functioning unless you LOOK AT THEM. And a lot, lot more.

Next we have the entire RPG system. You just don't get enough stats. All armor in this game is locked behind stats and requirements are... Cancerous, just cancerous. You have to go all-in on your build otherwise you won't be able to wear most armors. Gods forbid you are a knight that tried to dip a few stats in the magic. You will run naked until the middle of act 2. Sometimes those stats will have something completely unrelated to your build like "practicality" or dexterity for the mage. Also most nodes are absolutely redundant and unfun. For example - you can't even sell items for anything even close to their value unless you spend 5 points in practicality tree. So. Fun. Most nodes give you nothing meaningful and are legit stat bumps like in PoE. Without them tho you deal no damage.

Speaking of practicality... We have our next item - crafting. Crafting is fking horrible. Leveling it is a nightmare because you have a failure chance and afaik if you fail you get no exp for crafting. It's also a pain in the arse because you got no bloody idea where to farm resources like iron ore. Sure, you'll find some of it but not nearly enough to upgrade your crafting to tier 2. Crafting in t2 is straight up impossible because items you need for it just don't exist normally in act 2. They are in like 2 specific locations. Gl with that. And guess what? Yes, it too sucks without perks. Oh and on top of failure chance you get a chance to craft a weak or strong item (which in your unlevelled skill case is always weak) and it will alter the stats of the crafted item. Fk your dumb crafting system.

Next we have melee combat. It's an abomination stolen from some Skyrim modpacks. Works even worse than there tho because here is the thing... You can't block in this game. Blocking drains all your stamina even if you are hit by the weakest mob. So your only option is dodge. Buuuuut enemies have tracking attacks so it does not work either and the parry is just bugged. Parry works when it wants to. Oh and magic requires you to put ALL points in magic, otherwise it deals no damage, plus elemental effects on most enemies just reset. I don't know why - they just instantly disappear even if you fill half of the status bar in one shot. Have fun.


This game is mildly woke. Strange how nobody even covered that part but here you go:

• We have female pict chieftain.
  
• We have genderswapped knight.
• We have gay representation showed at you.
  
• Woke-altered lines like "fight like a person!".
  
• Probably a lot more.

Millennial writing. Quests in this game are horrible. They are written like some Reddit posts, they have no sense of belonging in this game and like half of them are made for "haha, funny reference", "haha look - t-pose" which completely ruins any immersion and just makes you cringe every time you hear the dialogue.

But don't worry because you won't be hearing dialogues for all that long! In act 2 a lot of NPCs just don't have any voice acting. It's just gone. Even on essential NPCs.

Next we have just Act 2. Devs had not the slightest idea how an RPG should function and so they just took HP of mobs from act 1 and put in the x4 multiplier... Fighting raid boss bear sure is fun yep yep. They also had no idea how much gold players would have so prices on something like a house are insane. House costs 50k gold. I hoarded gold the entire game, even leveled sale prices first thing and I still only have 26k gold at the middle of act 2. So... Ugh... Yeah, I don't know who put those numbers in. The writing in act 2 suddenly becomes even worse and reminds me of auto-generated Skyrim sidequests. Exploration becomes a chore because you get nothing from it and you will eventually get bored and just start skipping it.


This is a pathetic mess, where not a single aspect of it was thought through or well made, hell even attempted to be well made. It wants to be a Skyrim so bad it forgot to become something at all. I am astonished that people are willing to eat this and praise it for how good it is. Shame on you all and I'll see you next time.