Josh Lelievre

It take 4 hrs of coding to get this to work on a mid-range rig. Absolute joke of a finished product.

Be careful most people posting are reviewing the 2nd game not the first. This a developer vanity project. It takes elements from different, and older games and mashes them (poorly) into an ok RPG world. The world is more Terry Prachett and less Terry Goodkind. I really can't stop playing it, but it's not a particularly good game. There is nothing original. Elemental magic is stolen from Magicka, combat (without pausing) is stolen from every single overhead RPG game ever in existence. Railroading is real and story progress in very linear and not explained. You will just die if you don't proceed in the correct order. Combat, which is lauded by butt licking fans, is actually the same combat from older games, only they made it worse by taking away a pause feature. IT'S A FREAKING TACTICAL GAME, what is this? World of Warcraft 2. It's not 1990. It's a tactical game, it needs a pause feature in combat. AI is violent and ruthless, and often gets crazy advantages for little to no reason or with little to no explanation (the door guard for evelyn is a perfect example - so dumb). Think I'm bitter - Go look at the forums. The high level trolls all yell the same stupid thing - This game forces you to play in a certain way. CC is just so overpowered its shameful. Boss fights are scripted and involve combat with enemies instantly being given initiative, buffs, reinforcements and up to 8 attacks in a single round. Literally, that would instant kill all members of my party in one round. Also, some bosses are completely immune to almost all cc themselves. Mostly though these fights involve some kitschy addon, like an item that prevents the bosses instant kill death weapon. AP costs for stuff like that are way out of whack. This is not worth 9/10. It's just not. It's just a clone of PoE+WoW, or Baldurs Gate+Diablo but with lame combat. It also shares many of the flaws of game that came out then...like really? These include bad pathing from AI companions, out of control boss fights, railroady pc kits, and tired and predictable cc based combat. You guessed it, this is not a game to play without a full party, or without magic. Or without min/maxing your stupid cc and buffs. That's all combat is, surviving the first onslaught and then cc'ing the archers that have unlimited status effect arrows. That being said, its pretty stable and is genuinely funny in parts. It's just that its a combat game, and the combat is incredibly railroady and has terrible physics, vision, range, and is unsually punishing with respect to AP for PC characters. It really is only a medicore game 3/5

Not a 5 star game, not yet. But, it could be.

A fun game dominated by the most toxic cesspool of an online community in existence. Not to mention a gross 22% afk rate in unranked play modes. 1 out of 4 games with an afk as a rule. That is truly pathetic for a 5 man team game based entirely on scaling mechanics and vast snowballing. It's not the game though, it's Riot. Riot is a terrible company that will not fix its terrible matchmaking (the single most cited problem anywhere RIOT is reviewed) ranked, afk detection, moderation and cheesy cash grab game because people play it relentlessly, and because they can't fill queues fast enough. There are simply not enough skilled players to keep queue times down, so they allow all sorts of nonsense matchmaking to occur. Many of the community issues stem from really, really bad matchmaking and ranking options, and from a lack of account management. Accounts can be freely made from any email address forever with no punishments. Because of this, there is no fear of losing accounts, and people act like it. Almost every other online gaming option has some form of account management, limiting accounts and punishing those that are the worst offenders. Here, we see RIOT sponsor the worst of the worst such as Tyler1 and other popular League personalities. Toxicity rules this game, because RIOT wants low queue times, and as many people as possible to play, they will not take responsibility for this issue, and so, LoL veterans are constantly making new accounts, and trolling in low-elo games, and game modes. This makes it extremely unpleasant to be new, and to be a veteran, since there is no way to skip playing with these types of casualish players.

Very, very entertaining MMO. A great base game, with a few really questionable expansions that add a variety of stupid, poorly implemented mechanics and gimmicks. My only issue is with the jumping puzzles and the really bad overhead camera, and weird angles. These are just tedious, and really add nothing the game.