Haven't finished the game yet, so I am not yet in a position to rate it, but overall my impression is that anyone who is looking for a really easy game where you can just wade in and power through things like a demigod is going to hate it. Despite the superficial resemblance to the Diablo-style single character ARPG, Ego Draconis is in fact a very different animal entirely.
I suspect this is in fact the main problem the reviewer had (Apart from not knowing his Dark Fantasy from his High Fantasy! Ye gods!) - what he thought he was looking at was nothing like what the game actually IS and his expectations defeated him. Hence the confusion over mind reading (A thing you have to weigh up whether to use or not) and the expectation of spectacular combat.
Overall a somewhat odd review. He does make some good points, but from his overall description the game should belong in the 6-7 out of 10 bracket, not the 4 he gives it.
The game is certainly not without fault so far, but it's nowhere near being the nightmare that so low a score would indicate.
I found the review to be very confusing in light of the final scores he gives, which only rarely seem to bear any relation to his opinions given in the body of the review.
Ah, well. I think I'll go stick a few goblins full of arrows...
