Traversing through and around this world is a mix of joy and tedium.
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There is a dynamic weather system and a full day-night cycle as well. The world itself is a mix of beauty and destruction, with the destructive environments being plain ugly in comparison to the verdant fields with their bright blue skies. If the game had a smaller scope and a tighter focus I feel like it could have been something truly special instead of just being ok. There is a wealth of side content that I could see adding dozens of more hours of playtime in, but so much of it is both boring and repetitive that I feel no need to go back to it. There are multiple main questlines and completing them took me roughly 14 hours or so in total. As I’m not a sociopath I went full-on Light and was the nicest mutant imaginable. You start things out with a basic choice, am I good or am I bad? Which breaks down into am I fighting the World Bosses or attempting to help them destroy everything? It’s a basic morality structure that gains a bit of nuance as your Light and Dark levels will determine if you can use certain magic abilities, how conversations with certain NPC’s will go, and more. Most if not all the game’s quests are fetch quests, especially when it comes to the main storyline and either fighting (or aiding based on your choice) the World Eater bosses. The main issue I had with the game is how often you repeat tasks. The spell variety is excellent and at least in the early game, you will be melting enough baddies to satiate even the most fervent pyromaniac. If you choose to focus on intellect when creating your character the magic system is both satisfying and highly destructive. Your reticle is large and if the main part of it is targeting an enemy you will hit them. Ranged combat is a generous system that feels a bit better, though it can be far too weak outside of a few overpowered combinations.
Larger enemies can grab you seemingly at will, and the parry system devolves into button mashing too often as you can get locked into a long animation, and reading enemy attacks can be difficult in all the chaos. You float around, and your attacks feel random in when they will stun an enemy. So much of this game comes down to the combat though, so let’s break it down. Some environments are gorgeous while others would look at home on a 360 if you lowered the resolution down a bit.
Graphically the game varies wildly though. I made a shotgun not too long into my playthrough that was able to kill most enemies and bosses in 10 or 15 seconds flat if I did a specific combo. The loot and crafting system is excellent if not a bit broken. While the melee can feel far too floaty overall the combat is fun, well once you’ve unlocked enough abilities to give it the needed variety. Surprisingly enough they pulled off most of those goals. One that has a huge map, tons of quests, a deep loot and crafting system, a mix of melee, ranged, and spell-based combat, and a surprisingly deep (at times) morality system. Let us make the best, biggest game anyone would never expect. There is obvious talent in the small dev team of 20, and a clear goal in mind. This is a decent, and occasionally very good game. From there you’re thrust into the world and given the first of many tutorials.
Moving to intellect gives you a bigger head, strength gives you more muscles, etc. You’ll choose from a subset of class types and then use a hilarious system for your stat distribution. First things first, and that means character creation.
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