Would people recommend Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous for someone who was just "okay" with Kingmaker, prefers turn-based to RTWP, and doesn't like individual combat encounters lasting more than 2.5 hours?
I like what I see online about the choices and build options, but I am worried the length of combat and the overall crunchiness of the Pathfinder system might make the game too time-consuming.
I am playing it now! I am in Act 3. I skipped Kingmaker, though, so can't say how it compares to that. I am playing a sylvan sorcerer with a great pet named Leaf. I am playing in turn-based mode on normal difficulty. Some of the battles are a bit long. I like it well enough, though, that I will probably finish it. I don't do any prebuffing, which seems fine on normal (maybe it makes some fights longer, though?).
Best part so far: Mythic paths: I picked Azata, which is great! I get a cute pet dragon and can make plants grow everywhere.
Worst part so far: Traveling on the map + resting system + encumbrance. Anytime you want to go anywhere, you have to travel on a map with lots of random encounters. You also often need to rest when traveling on the map, and of course, resting has random encounters, too! This is all before you can even start a quest. You can build some fast travel teleportation circles, but they take forever to build in multiple places and also have a cooldown. Once when I was leaving an area, it said I couldn't leave unless I dropped some loot!
Writing: Quests are well done. Dialogue is mixed. I would like more dialogue with companions in general (other than banter) and the romance didn't have much content so far. On the other hand some noncompanion npcs have walls of text for dialogue. Full voice acting would have really helped them cut down on those wall-of-text dialogues!
