Pillars of Eternity

This review was written for my friends. And Durance.

Great, unique

Fantastic Rpg! A masterpiece!

one of the best for its kind

FABULOUS plot and incredibly great storty-telling! One of the MOST GREAT CRPGs definitely!! Each companion is lovely and funny, especially Eder, Aloth, Kara and Durance. Why cannot I romance Aloth in POE1!!!! Anyway I will make him my partner in POE2 lol,

"Pillars of Eternity" is a good game with much to recommend it, but it struggles to fully deliver on its own ambitions. (7/10) The branching dialogue options look impressive on paper but rarely run deep. Most don't elicit a reaction from your companions or the world at large, and many lead nowhere. A few lines of unvoiced dialogue, even from characters who are normally voiced, and then the story resumes as if nothing happened. The choices are there, but they are skin-deep for the most part. A small but persistent frustration worth mentioning: playing as a female character, you will occasionally be misgendered by the narrative. The default protagonist appears to have been written as male, and the adjustments don't always catch every instance. The turn-based beta branch is a worthwhile addition and largely functional. I played through the entire game on it and only had to reload due to glitches once or twice. That said, certain interactions weren't fully balanced for turn-based. A Barbarian trait that grants an additional turn on kill, combined with the class's area damage, can chain indefinitely through weaker enemies and trivialize certain encounters. This feels less like a bug and more like an oversight from retrofitting turn-based onto a system never designed for it. Difficulty is a related issue. On anything above the lower settings, fights become so drawn out that the fun slowly drains out of them. A more granular system allowing you to adjust enemy damage and health independently would have been welcome. The ideal configuration doesn't currently exist in the presets: enemies that feel genuinely dangerous without requiring geological patience to defeat. The story, like much of Obsidian's work, is genuinely excellent. The world is rich and the companions are well written. The absence of romance options is a real gap, though. Emotional investment in a character becomes easier when that character has something personal at stake in the world around them. It's a limitation that Obsidian addressed in the sequel. The ending presents meaningful decisions with real weight, but like much of the game, the available options don't always capture the specific position you've arrived at through hours of play. You sometimes find yourself picking the least bad option rather than the right one. Not because the writing is poor, but because the game couldn't anticipate exactly who your character became along the way. Visually, Pillars of Eternity uses pre-rendered backgrounds to beautiful effect. There's an argument that the older graphical approach has aged better than fully rendered contemporaries. The painterly quality of the environments gives the world a distinctive atmosphere that feels intentional rather than dated. In the end, I’d say Pillars of Eternity is a genuine Kickstarter success story and I'd recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone who goes in with clear expectations. It's not perfect, but the developers did something amazing with a limited budget. (7/10)

So glad to finally play this. Truly a fantastic game.

Well written with interesting plot developments

Good

還行，CRPG的玩家沒有多少選擇。