Recent reviews by Beldar Conehead

Interesting gameplay and rich world building

I will be honest I am not sure where some of these reviews are concluding that is this a bad game. Over my 8 hours playtime I had no crashes at all, the game ran beautifully. The setting and environments were interesting, the story is nicely tied together and closed in this game, and the gameplay was satisfying enough for me. I played as the Umbralist (I played a ranged hero in VH1, and a melee one in VH2) and did not have any of the power creep problems with enemies that I had in VH1. I definitely agree with others though that the skill trees seem to be vastly reduced from VH2, but I still found enough variety to keep my class entertaining throughout. There is a sea of features within your home base that I only scratched the surface of (most returning from VH2).

My personal issues with the game were so few and frankly irrelevant that they did not impact my opinion of the game at all. While maybe not as expansive as VH2 this on its own is by no means a bad game like others are making it out to be. Especially if you consider this was made by a studio with probably 25% of the budget that Diablo has. Pick it up if you can get it on sale and therefore cheaply. I would recommend trying this series out if you are looking for something a bit different from Diablo or Torchlight, or are interested in the steampunkish / macabre settings.