Recent reviews by Monica St. Pierre

This game is very fun but is very different from other Dragon Age games. Go in with a desire to see more of the world rather than more of what made those games feel like DA games imo. If you look at it as its own thing, it's amazing. Great character customization, combat feels extremely fun and rewarding to master, and the characters are interesting!

[NON SPOILER] This game is horrendous. You have to basically lobotomize your enemies with the built-in difficulty setting JUST to play the game. Once you get out of the tutorial castle, you are thrown into the world where you fight off a couple of bandits. No biggie, simple enough. Then you get your first fetch quest to begin leveling your party. You must find a plant to give to an alchemist who needs it for a potion. A simple quest that you can find in any RPG ever created. Well here's the issue: the cave where said flower is from is FILLED with creatures that vastly outlevel your party. The plant you need to harvest requires you to make a TWENTY 1d20 ROLL! If it doesn't? You take 1d8 damage. After this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you also get introduced to the worlds worst enemy archetype: the swarm. The swarm does not need to roll for an attack. They get to move freely and if they move through your team, it's guaranteed damage.

The worst part? They also grant diseased debuffs which can hinder your party from acting for a turn. No actually the worster (if thats a word) part is that they CANNOT be attacked with normal means. You need to use splash damage or fire. The problem with that is that it COMPLETELY weakens your ability to fight these already vastly stronger than you, overleveled creatures. If you have no AoE abilities or characters on your team (I was the only one as a sorcerer with acid splash) you just don't get to hit them. Like I said, you can use a torch but even then the rolls you need to make are insanely high and you will spend a good 10 turns to get them at minimum 50% HP.

This game is a testament to how NOT to design your RPG's early game. I get that it should be difficult as a low level party, but this game quite literally rips you to shreds early. I used the above example to just show you how bad it is. This is supposed to be a FETCH quest and you can easily have to reload several times for it. If that's a glimpse into how bad the game is going to be going forward, then I want no part in it. I would love to experience this game as a fan of the Baldur's Gate games, Dragon Age: Origins and D:OS2, but its just too much of a headache, even when you know how the games mechanics work.

P.S.: the cherry on top of the ♥♥♥♥ cake is that once you get to the kingdom mode (the namesake of the game, which you can't even get to without suffering through extremely hard basic quests) you can LOSE the game if you mess up even the slightest in an irrelevant kingdom management simulator. This is a full loss btw. There is no returning to the save or trying again if you messed up something very early into your save. This game is just very poorly balanced and I think I will give the sequel a try. But for now this game itself is shelved until I come up with what to do with it.

The game requests you add your secret code here in the reviews which is obviously review inflating so i will give a negative review but its a good game! Not very long, should probably be free but it is a nice spooky themed personality test.

If you've ever watched a horror movie and you wish you could tell the stupid protags what to do, this is the game series for you.

How do you make a game that releases unoptimized for PC when it launched on EVERY console at the same time? The game doesn't even show you controls for keyboard and mouse, you have to plug in a controller to initially look up most settings. The game barely goes over 60fps despite me having a 2080ti and being able to run CYBERPUNK of all things above 60 at ultra. The game does not look good enough to warrant this, it looks JUST like Dark Souls beyond theme, beyond aesthetic but simply in graphics. The character creator looks awful as well and I know that isn't the main draw to this game, but its 2022, you should have it together by now.

I recommend this game for people who want Dark Souls 4, and would like to spend 60 dollars on a copy of the original games. The story is negligible and boring and the combat is like any other souls-like you can find.

One of the most diverse RPG's I have ever played and it's not even completed yet. It really brings to life the complexities of tabletop games in a way I haven't seen since old school games like Fallout 1 or 2.

The game, while extremely fun in theory is extremely unrewarding. The entire gist of the game is to attempt to be the final survivor and the struggles you face along the way. Having that intense firefight in the school or a sneaky chase on a high profile target through the warehouse is supposed to truly be the highlight of the game. This is OK and is one of the things I love about this game. EXCEPT for the fact that after its done its done. It doesn't feel rewarding at all to be anything but the last man standing. I feel like the game should be more rewarding towards being at least top 20. In the current state theres no difference between dying in 10th place and dying in 80th.

I will say that I would probably had a way better experience had I been able to play for a bit more. Several of my games would end abruptly due to just crashes or the game would randomly run poorly even on the lowest settings. I have a GTX 1060 so I'm not sure if that makes any difference. It's still a fun game though for the experience but the aftermath is all that irks me but hey, I knowingly paid 30 dollars for an early access game that's pretty damn finished outside of those crashes.