Divinity: Dragon Commander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLCZ7Sb-LWw So, imagine all that Mass Effect crew management, date-sim, talking and “decision-making” (or Binary Domain tickling) packed into a one fine visual novel with actual characters, actual decisions, actual story and actual animation and other real-art assets. Now add to this a classic Risk global map. Now make all battles on it a simple RTS game, where you are present (like in the Магия Войны), and also can directly participate as a dragon (like in the Глаз дракона). Maybe this isn’t the best game out there, but this is definitely a separate experience in its own. The political part is really good, conflicting parties ask you to do judgement and your actions do matter a lot. Even waifu-sim is outstanding, while it’s not an adult and reasonable relationship of the future, it asks a lot of you by the present day standards. The RTS is cool at first, with its technofantasy designs, but by the midpoint the novelty wears out. Yet it still serves as a respite from all the reading. And thankfully you accumulate some skills to make your dragon self much stronger, to finish late game fights quicker. With all that praise i gushed over the political visual novel part, there are still a lot of really bad decisions. Why Camilla looks like chick from Avatar? What’s up with her face? where is my lusty argonian maid? That much sexual dimorphism is bull and a plain fan-service and pandering. Why do reptiles have mammaries again? Aren’t those reserved only for mammals? And why there is no human diplomat? And therefore there is no human princess or human lands. It’s like all humans are only bureaucracy servants? They are the majority of staff on Raven and yet no one cares about them but generals. And most of decisions you make do not affect them at all. Even ones which do, don’t change their loyalty to the dragonborn. Humans just don’t have a say in this war. Unless they are dead. Why can only humies be undead? Where are undead imps, dwarfs, lizards and dragons? And what’s killing me is undead have facial expressions, and that animation is terrible. Oh, yes. And music. Music here is killing me too. It’s not surprising i found the OST so bad. It’s made by the guy who was involved in the worst songs of Ария. Well, yeah, Dragon Commander is still good, despite all of Larian’s attempts to sacrifice it to Divinity: Original Sin. It’s clunky and it’s simple, but at least it’s an uncommon experience.

this game is special. It could be better, yes. It lacks many thing that would make it really good. Still, its an interesting experience and worth playing.

It's got a lot of problems but overall I really enjoyed Dragon Commander. The RTS element is okay, the choices you make in regards to the Empire and dealing with the various races was the fun part. Act 3 sucks with how the map is layed out and how you've probably run out of dialogue at that point, making it a real drag to the finish line. Overall a nice time if you can get it on sale.

This is the worst RTS I have ever played. No contest. It would seem that the devs spent all their time working on everything EXCEPT the actual gameplay. The end result is an ultra basic core RTS system that holds entire rest of the game back.

The combat is a joke, a waste of time that has very little work put into it. This game should have just been a visual novel.

Fun political/visual novel-esque game Below average action game Terrible dated feel to tactics I like the game, don't get me wrong, but if you want it remember Larian came from the gutter and in some ways it still shows here.

RTS is just a third of the gameplay. It's kind of basic, but doesn't make any major mistakes, so it's enjoyable to play for the most part. The thing that makes it really fun is being able to jump in directly into action, as a DRAGON WITH A JETPACK. It's as cool as it sounds. The NPCs that you talk with (or ignore, your choice) between the missions are full of character and you will make decisions that will shape their future. Some of them are comedic in nature, some are serious, all are fun to decide on.