Once I saw a trailer for the game, felt the Dragon Age Origins vibe and added it to my wishlist. Since then, I haven't looked at a single screenshot. And then, during early access for the second part, I finally bought the first one and started playing with high expectations.

In the very first location, I walked and looked around for half an hour. This is how good the environment design. Then I enjoyed the combat system even more, playing as a mage. And then I got to the cons.

The game has a very interesting world, a good plot and beautiful locations. And all this falls apart when you start doing quests. Endless go there, bring this makes you feel like a ping pong ball. And among these runs there will always be several arenas with enemies that you have to click on with two basic spells. By the end of the game, I could not stand it and installed a mod for infinite mana. And then it become really interesting to play. I started actively combining different spells of which there are only 3 lol with swords. Sooo the last two hours have been a lot of fun.

Another thing is the terrible leveling. You will have too many boring fights until you get a new skill. And then even more boring fights. I played as a mage on normal and it was unbearable. It got even worse when I decided to make the character more diverse, but at level 50 they stopped giving me skill points.

It was great to get the first legendary in the third hour of the game. And it was terrible to realize that in the fifth hour of the game I got the last legendary. The remaining 20 hours I walked with the same equipment without the ability to increase damage. But the enemies became more and more difficult.

Okay, in fact, this is a solid mid-level project. It tries to repeat after The Witcher, Dragon Age, Mass Effect. But it sucks that you need to instal at least XP boost, Better Legendary Items and Map Anywhere mods just to make game less annoying.

Nice game, but my NO is disagreement with 77% rating.

Interesting premise with poor execution.

The pros:
-Beautiful environments
-Good flexibility in class system; I like being able to cast a spell at an enemy then cave their skull in with a hammer
-Good music

The cons:
-The world feels empty and boring, all the government buildings have the same layouts and portraits
-Same 3 or 4 enemy types every encounter
-Combat is repetitive and unrewarding
-Frequent spelling errors in the subtitles
-Armour pieces often clip through each other
-Companions are dull and lifeless, only really gave a ♥♥♥♥ about Petrus tbh
-Not enough in the codex; I don't understand or care about the difference between the tribes at all
- Writing is about as subtle as a brick to the forehead at mach 1
-Noble savage fallacy
-"DLC"

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