No knights in shining armor and riding white horses present here. If you don’t like blood, stay away from this game or turn off the gore. A hereditary system of human nobility oppresses a race of elves. People aren’t pretty: most people have bad teeth. The game is set in a Late Medieval Fantasy world, played to the hilt. Expect to fight the exact same handful of enemy types throughout the entire game it is almost as bad as Ar Tonelico.Īt least they are pretty rip-offs, played against some beautiful, if not creative, backdrops. Even the game’s supposedly most fascinating enemies, the dragons, all look the same and appear to be ripped-off from the a certain chaos dragon of Warhammer Fantasy lore. Most opponents are either generic soldiers and mages, humdrum forest animals, or goblin and ogre rip-offs. Speaking of which, the enemies are uninspired. I cannot imagine the game’s alternate material being so exciting that it deserves a second playthrough the most exciting events are basically the same.
In many cases, the differences are just different plugs for the same slots. Playing the game differently can result in an accumulation of minor differences, but they won’t add up to anything significant if the player is looking for a completely different story. Some things change based on which origin story was used, but these are minor differences. The main body of the quests remain the same and little gets unlocked for subsequent playthroughs. With a little imagination, it is easy to predict how the game turns out if the player makes different choices. It’s practically impossible to see all the dialogue on a single playthrough, which can make subsequent playthroughs more interesting. Beside, every companion has dialogue with almost every other companion, and often many dialogues. Thus I can’t bring myself to be too harsh on the companions overall. Their tales are interesting, if not the people themselves. To the contrary, even the characters I dislike have interesting backstories. I don’t mean that they lacked depth, but I suspect some characters are universally unpopular with players because of their personalities. I greatly disliked about half of the cast which can join the party. I am a bit biased, and I am certain everybody has their own favorites. Like in Baldur’s Gate 2, an array of colorful characters join the party. the game is made in the spirit of the Infinity Engine games of old, and it at least carries on that tradition superbly. Mind you that I jumped from Icewind Dale 2 to Dragon Age: Origins. “Dragon Age: Origins” is a good game, but it is overhyped at the time of my writing this.
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