Still on the fence, so I've decided to check some gameplay footage to at least have a taste of the writing and the gameplay.
Turns out I am still as allergic to artificially-sweeted cardboard as I was when I had stoically suffered through Dragon Age: Inquisition for some reason. It's that flavor of tryhard, but with the over-verbose and clearly originally Russian (the punctuation and the sentence structure betray it all) text on top of it all. Guess there's no accounting for taste. So, a big nope there.
And the gameplay is just Kingmaker, but... worse? In a way that instead of getting more concise and to the point, it's mechanically even more redundant with even more subclasses that nobody cared to balance. What's the point of hundreds of features if many of them either don't work because of bugs or don't work because they don't function within the game's difficulty and encounter design? Another big nope.
