Eredia: The Diary of Heroes

Short: A great RPG, with a fun cast of characters and lots of detail. I definitly recommend it to anybody looking for a decently sized RPG with more of a focus on exploration and characters. Long: This part may include Spoilers - Gameplay: A typical RPG using a party-system simialar to Dragon Quest or FF, even tho it's combat system goes less into depth then either of these. Your parties skill sets and personalities are predetermined and can not be changed (Except for one character, whoose skill set can be decided on between warrior or paladin). This streamlines it for people who are less focused on number crunching, but if you want to carefully craft your own build, this may be a mute point. Other then combat, there is also a large amount of exploration to be done, as the game has a well sized map, that has a variety of hidden quests, items and bosses. You will have to deal with random encountrs during your travels and exploration though. There are also a variety of puzzles in this game, that can sometimes be very easy or very annoying, if you are not into puzzeling. If you have trouble with where to go next, there is a guide written by a user here on steam. Characters and Dialogue: I personally found most characters to be well written and entertaining, even though I did not like the main character for some time, he grew on me after I spend some time on the game. The other party members have memorable personalities and the whole group has some very good banter. The villain(s) mostly well written and most of the supporting cast are at least interesting, even though you may not like every character. Technical problems: The game mostly runs smoothly, even though whenever I opened my questlog and opened a certain quest, my frames would be dropping. Other then that, I did find a few bugs, where you could walk through some walls and I did have a problem with the autosafe function once, costing me about two hours of gameplay. The game also crashed a few times during my playthrough. A story playthrough took me about 40h, without postgame and without doing all quests before finishing the mains story. I ended up beeing overleveled a bit because I did a lot of quest at some point because the game told me, I may not be able to do them after the next story event. If you want to circumvent this, either play on a higher difficulty or try to avoid unneccesary fights. The game is getting a sequel, so I thought it would be a good idea to finally write this down. Goodbye