PolyCore

A good game but the base building can get a bit boring. A copy/paste feature would have solved a lot of it

I would have given 7 or 8 but they really dragged the arse out of it. Should have ended at chapter 9 but it just kept going. I'm writing this from chapter 13 and my god just finish it already.

It's an average game showing it's age badly. The movement and combat is very janky and lifted right out of an MMO - tab targeting, right click to move camera, left click for basic attack and numbers for spells, you can't move while casting spells. The start is very difficult forcing you to do side quests to level up. The power system is also very MMO like and completely unnecessary, you're forced to do more side quests to get power to unlock the next mission. There is another system called influence and at 15 hours in I still don't know its purpose. Item interaction is shocking also. You have to be almost on top of a thing to interact with it, this is worse shown up when trying to collect loot after a battle. You have to run and stand over each loot pile and click on it, it's very slow to loot also and there is no autoloot. The mini map is terrible, it just shows points of interest on a black background. Might as well have arrows on the edge of the screen. The main map is difficult to read, roads aren't clearly marked and you can often find yourself at a dead end. Towns and outposts are laid out in completely bizarre ways. Like in the main hub there's no direct path to the war room, you have to run around the town to get to it. Inventory management is atrocious and takes too many clicks, you have a separate screen for weapons, armor, trinkets and upgrades for each character. Any merchant screen is also terrible, you can't see any stats of any item without hovering over the item. So if you want to sell all items below a certain level you have to hover over each item individually to check it before clicking sell. The story is bang average also. You're the chosen one for reasons yet to be determined and it's your job to save the world. Maybe this was a ground breaking game in it's time but by modern standards it's more frustrating than anything else.

If you're not a fan of the XCOM style combat this isn't for you. I like the setting and humor but ultimately don't enjoy the combat.

A fine game let down by the early and late game. It was slow to start but then went on for a few hours too long. The core fishing loop was fun once you got into it but quickly became boring & repetitive which they did make strides to change but just replaced with more repetitive busy work. Also far too much hand holding, no matter how obvious your next step would be, Dave would chime in essentially telling you what to do.