Recent reviews by Randy Lahey

Very good game. Highly recommended if youre looking for a pokemon-like game on PC.

Theres plenty to do and see and end game content unlike the pokemon series.

Absolutely incredible game. One of the most content dense games I've ever played. Highly recommended.

As a huge fan of turn-based combat games, this one is very lackluster.

+Graphics are nice along with the environments
+Story isn't bad
+Not a bad variety of enemies.

~I didn't run into a ton, but there was definitely a non-negligible amount of bugs. I ran into one where a character disappeared for multiple fights including a boss fight that's apparently a common bug. If i was playing on anything other than easy I don't think I could've completed it.

-World is pretty empty even though it looks nice
-Crafting is skin deep, components are way too hard to find, and by the time you find them the item is usually useless
-Lots of running around to get from place to place and the fast travel system isnt great.
-Limited amount of spells/attacks and the way to get them is awkward at best.
-The crystal system sucks.
-Leveling up, everything is automatic. There are no builds. You cant make a character to do a certain thing/multiple things.
-Camera is terrible in fights. Many times I had to scroll over on the map, select my skill, then quickly select the enemy because they were out of range of the camera and selecting a skill centers it quickly on your character.
-Auto battle is terrible. Its pointless with how bad it is.

Its not bad, but pick it up on at least a 50% discount.

+Graphics are decent
+Ability to approach missions in several different ways
+Decent variety of weapons that are customizable
+Compensating for bullet drop and wind add difficulty to shooting further away targets and the cutscenes are satisfying.

-Only 6 missions in total though they do take some time and there is some replay-ability if you want to 100% them
-Multiplayer is 100% dead
-The AI can be funky at times. I played on the easiest difficulty but harder ones can be frustrating. AI sees you from way too far away and is able to accurately hit you with an assault rifle from distances you have to set up a shot for with the sniper,
-Fall damage is stupid. I'm fine with some but it does get ridiculous at times. There were multiple times i died from it on what should've been nothing or minimal. Whats even dumber is how they tell you in the tutorial you have something special in your suit to make fall damage lighter.

Really bad game. Other than nostalgia for the people who have played the old ones, there's nothing to like about it. Everything about it is boring. Its mostly just running around talking to people with some bad fighting mechanics and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ cut scenes to fill the gaps.

I'm not a huge fan of survival games to begin with but this one felt especially grindy. The monkeys you get can automate some tasks but they're very clunky to use and stupid at that. Like you send a monkey off to chop trees and it runs into one its ax isn't a high enough level to chop, and it'll still just sit there and chop at that tree until you tell it to follow, bring it to another area, and then reteach it how to chop and hope the monkey doesn't just end up back at that tree anyway.

Worth a playthrough especially on sale. Heavily story driven game where you investigate and find out main aspects of the story line by devising answers based on the investigations. They arent obvious answers that are directly told to you in game and you need to figure them out yourself,

+Awesome atmosphere that has a lot of character.
+Great soundtrack
+Interesting and fun story line
+ Nice art style
+Multiple endings based on your decsions throughout the game

-Some characters couldve been elaborated more on. There were a few "main characters" that had big impacts but very little to no back story.

Not for me. I don't really like point and click games to being with but this one was especially on my "nah" list. Too childish and extremely short. Maybe just not my thing.

Fantastic game, well worth the price.

+Great art
+Tons of very unique weapons
+Lots of different enemies
+Difficulty level choice so you dont have to suffer through insane difficulty like some games of this type make you go through
+Neat collection system that rewards you for trying out new weapons and skills

It isnt terrible and i played it all the way through but im not sure id recommend it. It has a lot of potential but is solidly meh.

+Graphics are good
+Environment is really nice
+Story is good.

~Combat isnt terrible, but its pretty basic. Click to attack, click to block which a few possible spell choices.
~Bosses are just kinda massive sponges but arent necessarily hard.
~Not many enemy types and many of them look really similar. You'll be fighting the same things most of the game.
~Leveling system is awkward. Only get certain points every so many levels. The stats you get are slow to come by and you can't even use companions skills so you get locked out of things. Oh you went for lockpicking and crafting? Sorry, you cant do any of the intuition checks for the whole game.

-Fast travel system is annoying to say the least.
-Tons of running. This is in part because of the fast travel system and partly because a lot of quests are just talking to people in entirely different areas. The final quest involves literally just traveling to 6 different places and talking to people there.
-Choices really don't matter and you don't get many anyway.
-Can't actually side with a faction. You can just do everything. Along with the choices don't matter, its got virtually no replayability.