I heard all the bad stuff about this game but knew it was for me just from the trailer. To me, all the bad stuff is immensely exaggerated (surprise, in a game starring a Black woman?? NO!). It is flawed for sure, and feels rushed - there"s a point in the game where it suddenly feels like they cut off development and there was supposed to be several more "cycles" of what you had been doing previously but it just jumps to the ending battle (after a very long and agonizing series of "walk here and listen to this exposition, then this, then this" which could"ve all been one brief cutscene).

But interestingly, even after you win the game, there"s a significant amount of legitimate content still to do. Not just swiping up all the dots on the map like in any open-world game, but several more quests and story beats.

And speaking of those dots, I heard there was a super empty world, but this is easily 3x as dense as any Far Cry game, and the things you encounter are far more interesting than another bag of money. I have zero complaints about the open world content.

It does have too much hand-holding, exposition, and forced cutscenes. But again on this front it contradicts itself too - it"s the only game I"ve seen that has a special treasure chest opening animation if you are dashing. Like most games, triggering a chest is slow, but if you dash up to one in this game, you flip-kick it open and are done instantly. Stuff like that is all through the game (like how you can actually skip the dialogue in cutscenes and it just immediately jumps ahead to the next line, something almost NO game offers).

Spell-swapping is clunky, it takes a long time to really get going, and again has all that hand-holding and too many cutscenes, and WAY too many comments from your buddy Cuff (turn it down to "rarely" because that"s about the level "constantly" should"ve been), but I give it a solid two thumbs up. It is a great game with a ton of fun spells, a good story, and an overwhelming amount of content even if it feels like the story was cut short. I won the game probably 10-15 play-hours ago and I"m still playing every day, hoovering up those dots. I still haven"t finished all the post-story quests either. Recommended by Hamumu!

I heard all the bad stuff about this game but knew it was for me just from the trailer. To me, all the bad stuff is immensely exaggerated (surprise, in a game starring a Black woman?? NO!). It is flawed for sure, and feels rushed - there"s a point in the game where it suddenly feels like they cut off development and there was supposed to be several more "cycles" of what you had been doing previously but it just jumps to the ending battle (after a very long and agonizing series of "walk here and listen to this exposition, then this, then this" which could"ve all been one brief cutscene). But interestingly, even after you win the game, there"s a significant amount of legitimate content still to do. Not just swiping up all the dots on the map like in any open-world game, but several more quests and story beats. And speaking of those dots, I heard there was a super empty world, but this is easily 3x as dense as any Far Cry game, and the things you encounter are far more interesting than another bag of money. I have zero complaints about the open world content. It does have too much hand-holding, exposition, and forced cutscenes. But again on this front it contradicts itself too - it"s the only game I"ve seen that has a special treasure chest opening animation if you are dashing. Like most games, triggering a chest is slow, but if you dash up to one in this game, you flip-kick it open and are done instantly. Stuff like that is all through the game (like how you can actually skip the dialogue in cutscenes and it just immediately jumps ahead to the next line, something almost NO game offers). Spell-swapping is clunky, it takes a long time to really get going, and again has all that hand-holding and too many cutscenes, and WAY too many comments from your buddy Cuff (turn it down to "rarely" because that"s about the level "constantly" should"ve been), but I give it a solid two thumbs up. It is a great game with a ton of fun spells, a good story, and an overwhelming amount of content even if it feels like the story was cut short. I won the game probably 10-15 play-hours ago and I"m still playing every day, hoovering up those dots. I still haven"t finished all the post-story quests either. Recommended by Hamumu!