Tyranny

The real tyranny was the bugs along the way.

As I write this, I'm 18 hours in, in the middle of Act 2. I am absolutely loving this game and upset at myself for not playing it years ago. I love the magic system, I love the character advancement/skills system, I'm enjoying the characters themselves, I'm really into the story, and I especially love how choices seem to really matter.

Excellent world-building and storytelling. Its rare for a game to figure out how to implement moral decisions without a reductive blue-red alignment counter, and its rarer still to let players be "villanous" in a way that feels coherent and not cartoonish. The mechanics are satisfying, with some really fun spell-creation, but they're also not particularly well balanced and dwarfed by other contemporaries in the isometric CRPG space. Not crazy long for a western CRPG (maybe 30-60 hrs?), which honestly, GREAT, because I don't have 200 hours for most games.

This game has only one selling point, the story, since it's basically a Visual Novel with very little gameplay and very much reading. The combat gets frustrating because your party members AI is just not good, you can set it to whatever, it still needs you to tell every partymember what to do after every skilluse because the AI doesn't use them effectively, so you're stuck pausing and unpausing every second or so. when you are not running around very small maps. Now get this. Tyranny lore is a Warhammer 40k offbrand. I am now in act two and I feel like I'm playing a 40k parody. Example without spoilers: The master of mankind has conquered nearly everything there is to conquer with the power of his superhuman generals the Archons, for example the Archon of War (The Warmaster) and his unstoppable legion of supersoldiers that can survive wounds that would kill a man ten times over and they can march for days without breaking a sweat, clad in special armor, few in number, the best of the best etc. and you run into more and more very familiar lore the longer you play. If lore is the only selling point you have, at least write it yourselves.

Офигенно. Глубокий сюжет и хорошо прописанные персонажи. Надо читать много текста!

Great game! Interesting choice-driven story, fun characters with customizable builds, and beautiful graphics for a 10 year old game. Love the magic crafting system!