I wish i could work for a reviewing site that is more honest then ass-kisser, thats how these "big gamne review sites" made their name, lots and lots of ass-kissing. I would not be so forgiving of this game, Ill just say this even after revamp of Ego D. there are still issues that need patched, terrain mostly. The map is seriously weak, no scroll zoom, there is no quest tracker or integrated map, the mini-map is too small and not sizable (trying to bypass using an *.ini is just weak, see patch) the only thing you can do with the map is add map markers, weeeee. This is just some of the things I found that others would not pay attention to, playing games since the Vic20/Atari gives you that depth (/smirk)
The good side, I loved the Dialogs and the voice-overs are fantastic, the Stan and Ollie guys would slip by if you werent watching closely. The humor was done nice and subtle enough to not be awkward. Then i got to the battle tower beachfront, the old sailor and the whale tale would be a spoiler if actual names were used, LOL, I would have liked to see this one drawn out longer. Combat effectiveness improves as you progress thru the levels to the point of 1 hit kills, well just about, auto-battle is on less and less, While Armor gets better and easier to tweek pretty soon your worried about whats left to sell and which set to keep, since 3 enchant slots and 3 charm slots let you do a whole bunch of tweeking while keeping spare sets. I tried to keep 4 sets of dropped pieces, one ranged one melee and one magic and one balanced. Most people would make a balanced set and thats it, as you level the game gets easier to a point that being week to magic or melee would make me actually use potions. I'm level 34 and just now getting to Aleroth.
1st Play-thru I picked Warrior (34 now), so far I have 10 ranks of Regen, Life Leech, Evade and Wisdom (been maxed all the time). I had a hard time running thru the poison fog after returning to Broken Valley due to poor visibility, but the regen kept me topped off. With only 714HP and regen is not even over 2% yet, this player must be ubah!
I started a ranger for the 2nd play-thru now that I know the major skills need to get to make the game easy as pie in the upper levels. More to Come (someday).
