Solasta: Crown of the Magister

This game is easy to follow and has a wonderfully classic ttrpg style storyline. The turn based system is easy to follow and the multiplayer keeps everyone involved and together.

踢门团好玩捏，可以小队四个人都自己捏，还都有台词，rp自己的pc非常合适。缺点是[b] 建模太丑了，太丑了，太丑了！！！ [/b]丑到人神共愤看到第一眼就气笑了，但是看久了居然还顺眼了，[strike] 我真没有恋丑癖！ [/strike] 种族和职业居然需要额外买dlc才能捏有点不能理解，[strike] 龙裔长得像发面馒头。 [/strike]

There's nothing interesting about this game outside of the faithful recreation of 5e system. Incredibly shallow world, astonishingly boring characters, masterfully dull story and bizarre dialogues.

I do recommend this game but I have a few issues. First and foremost, I have never been one to care for graphics and my enjoyment of a game has never been decided by it. Even with all the pretext, the game looks pretty bad and outdated, especially for a game that came out in 2021, compare it to Solasta 2 which is only 5 years apart but looks grand. But this is just a first impression issue and as I kept playing it became less and less of an issue as I adapted to the weird and unkept look of it all. Secondly, and this is my biggest problem. This game is slow. Like, slow even for a slow burn, I saw a review that says the pace of the game depends on the player and I couldn't disagree more. From movement being already slow in animation, to then taking Caution and even being slower (Caution is something the game constantly hints at you doing with the characters hinting at it whenever there's something nearby), add environmental hazards and difficult terrain and you have 4 characters taking around 2 minutes to cross a small swamp. I applaud this game for being the most true to DND out of all the popular ones that tries to emulate it. But it is also very limiting in what you can actually do at the same time which really confuses me. For some ungodly reason, classes like monks and barbarians, two staple class of DND are behind dlc paywall (I have seen very little complaint about this as well so I know I'm in the minority) but as a giant hypocrite who is a one-trick monk dnd player myself, I had to buy it regardless. It didn't feel good paying for a DLC more expensive than the base game I got for a discount but it is what it is. Moving on, classes, subclasses and feats mostly stay true to how dnd works, so no major complains there, kudos to the team for it. There is a feel of a sadistic DM with how encounters work, with almost every single fight in the game having at least one enemy on the opposite team that can cast counterspell, even in fights where it doesn't make a lot of sense for a magic user to be on the enemy team. This feels like a spiteful DM preventing magic spellcasters from doing ♥♥♥♥-all for 90% of the game. This is balanced, for me, by having 3 martials that just brute forced through areas. Healers are almost not needed with how generous the game is with healing potions. Voice acting is meh, characters don't really act and talk like their personality while dialogue choices seems to sound different from what you think the character would say (but this is a true crpg choices matter problem of the ages) I do think the saving grace of this game is the community, those who make custom campaigns to make up for the kinda short experience the game offers. I have more fun with those than the story told in the main campaign. There are still, to this day, a bunch of game breaking bugs that are quite known apparently, and some "accidentally helpful" glitches too. This really sounds negative but it's because I truly believe the problems I had are, all in all, kinda minor and adaptable if you give the game a chance. It was still an enjoying experience and a great addition to does that loves to make characters and roll dices. A very, very solid 6/10

great game for cheap that is as good as BG3

It's an okay game. It's a faithful enough implementation of D&D 5th edition, you get to generate your own characters (or can rely on a suite of pre-gens if you can't be bothered, but where's the fun in that?), and you get to do missions for an annoying council of politicians. Your enemy are a race of shapechanging lizard people - maybe David Icke was right about the Anunaki all along... I was a bit reminded of the doppelganger plot in Baldar's Gate 1. The voice acting is a bit annoying, the characters look strangely ugly, and the plot is pretty linear, mostly an excuse for a series of tactical battles, although these are fun enough if you like turn based D&D combat, and they change it up with different settings, terrain effects etc. It's no Baldur's Gate, or even Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, maybe more like Icewind Dale with nicer weather. It scratches the tabletop roleplaying itch, and it's a fairly solid 7/10. One complaint: the game really needs a 'wait'/time passes function. Trying to time your long and short rests so that you tackle the vampires during daytime is quite painful.