Gothic 1 Remake

This is my first experience with Gothic. I went in blind, thinking maybe it would be like Dragons Dogma II in that DDII was the only other game I’d played where the game just did not care that you were the protagonist. Boy was it frustrating and confusing at first, thinking I’m too weak to get anywhere, so maybe I’ll just lead monsters back to the town guards and get experience and money that way, only to find that they drop no loot until you get the right skills, which cost an amount of money that feels obscene early on, and you get no experience just for being near a dying enemy. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, and I can’t say I really know when it started to feel like things were getting easier, but at some point, I grew up and became a warder. I have none of the nostalgia for this game that the original players do, but it is a work of art and I love it. No other game, even Elden Ring, has given me such a sense of being a basic person in a world gradually figuring it out. 10/10