Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr, along with its Prophecy expansion, ended up being a lot more enjoyable than I expected. I’m usually not into ARPGs, so I went in thinking it would be a pretty whatever experience but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit more than I thought.
I started off with the Tech-Priest campaign, which in hindsight might have skewed things a bit, especially since it's part of the Prophecy DLC and has its own, separate campaign and I didn't exactly know that going in. Semi-unrelated, but that class is busted; you can lean heavily into summons and let your constructs do a lot of the work, so it is not exactly the most skill-intensive way to play. Still, I had fun with it, and it's definitely satisfying watching your mechs tear through enemies while you hang back.
The story is fine. It's not bad, but it is definitely not the highlight. It does its job and gives you a reason to keep moving forward, but like most ARPGs, the real focus is on the gameplay loop. And yeah, that loop does get repetitive over time; you're running missions, clearing enemies, grabbing loot, and doing it over, and over, and over, and over again. I pushed to around level 70 before stopping, mostly because my goal was just to finish the main campaign and the Prophecy content, plus some.
There were a couple of annoyances though. I ran into this weird graphical issue during that Khorne blood rain effect, the screen would randomly flicker to black and back, which got pretty annoying and could potentially end a run for someone. On top of that, I noticed some weird internal framerate fluctuations as my FPS was high and stable, but the game still felt like it was slowing down at times, which made movement and combat feel less smooth than it should have been. Not that big a deal to me, but some are less forgiving than I am with those kinds of things.
Overall, even though it has the usual ARPG grind and some rough edges, I had a better time with it than I expected. It is not something I would sink hundreds of hours into, but for playing through the campaign and DLC, it was a solid experience that surprised me in a good way.
