Recent reviews by Czan The Araner

Game keept great flow of the first Plague Tale, but:
- Tragic game. Tragic story's philosophy.
- combat difficulty felt like it was ongoing from the first one, so there're hard encounters in which there is rarely any chance to get by without killing any people and you get scolded by your compaions if you kill anyone. Which doesn't make sense when sometimes Amicia tells "Go to hell" in cutscene then apologize for killing somebody to herself, literally moments after.
- new side characters are kinda meh, they're written great when you're with them and their interactions with you are very nice, but I felt like there's too less of them to create a stronger bond, besides maybe one new character.

Besides that everything is superb, from visuals, music and the way they showed the bond between Amicia and Hugo.

Heavy spoilers, don't read if you want to play it will ruin your game:
I just hate the ending, how tragic they made it. They kept the tone through entire game that you can't do anything and you're powerless. It just feels like "surrender and die" theme which is wrong and horrible.

Inscryption is better. But this game is still good, besides ending which was boring for me.

Nice game. It's kinda short, but the main story and combat in it is enought to keep you through it.

Just don't do "missions", if you will do them, you will complately lose the main story, since they are just there to be a grinder for better items, lvl and so on. They're quite boring and 99% of them doesn't have a unique story to tell, so do them only if you can't advance in main story. Also don't play on hard, even though fights are nicer (sometimes too long), you will need to spend some time in grind missions to finish main story.

Very nice game that tries to implement D&D style and is quite successful.

The story: It's interesting enough to play it once, but not to play it repediatly since most of the choices doesn't matter and the way though game is linear, you can try stealth, but most of the time it just gives you advantage in fight. There are some persuasion/deception rolls, but most of the time it just determines if you will fight enemy or not. The only difference would be that you have different classes, so you would fight in other way and different skills which could give you advantage/dissadvantage in talks.

Gameplay: Most of the rules of D&D are kept, but the archetypes of classes are mostly "Solasta made" meaning they're made for combat more than roleplay, since most of the stats for roleplay are made short like insight just shows you the % of how it's likely the choice you chose will be a success. Game doesn't have all spells and sometimes it feels sad, but it's not that bad.

Beware: while playing multiplayer there are desynch problems in which you will need to end your game and start from save. Also there are some bugs like minotaur can't stop running in place which also leeds to restart, but autosaves are quite often and made before each battler.

Summary: Game was good in it's time, now it's a clunky game, which after 2-5h of playing becomes way to easy till the last boss if you level up and if you don't you can still have a challange if keep stats at minimum.

If you never played Sudeki play it only, if your hobby is to play old games, because this title didn't age well. Only good things you would see in it, if you played for the first time would be the old school designs and some music.

Issues:
- AI in this game response slow so you barely get hit.
- Story isn't deep and it's quite cliché for it's time.

Kinda meh dlc, I would give it 6/10.

It's just +/- 2h long and doesn't have any hard mode which makes it quite boring.

Gameplay is kinda weird. Hell have a way easier way to move around and fight because her jump and dash is way longer and faster than in base game. Besides that after killing enemies you gather "rage" which after filling to 50% you have a shield that block next attack so it just pushes you to be aggressive which is in style with Hell, but because there isn't enough challange it made me feel like it's too easy and too fast.

Boss fights are nice, nothing big, but I felt like they were nice and more dynamic than in base game.

OSTs are repeated from base game.

Maps are kinda nice to, they made more maps showing like living areas which I like, but they aren't big and it's just a few of them.

For full price I would at least want some hard mode to have some repeatable challenge.

The best RPG game I've played for years.

The cities and the streats are lively, npc's talks about current situations and events.

The gameplay is similiar to old game "Sudeki", You can dodge, block and use attacks, but you can only use your skills/spells/items if you have an "atb" which fills over time and when you're attacking, so you can't just spam healing item or attack over and over again. It's very dynamic and can be a challange (after you beat the game there is sweat hard mode <3)

Every character have their own sett of attacks and weapon skills which makes their gameplay fresh and nice.

There is no grinding, every side quests is a story which gives a nice details about the city.

Playing this game is really the best time I spent playing games in years. (Besides mini games, but they're optionals)
10/10

P.S.
The story if you're a fan makes many holes which are very interesting in what they will do with them giving you only a glimpses of possibility, but some people don't like them, because it's not in their script of original Final Fantasy 7 bla bla.

Disclaimer: THE WORST fromsoftware GAME.

This game have 2 aspects:

First 50h +/-, it's great, nice graphics, interesting designs, way too small caves and dungeons, open world, maybe some crafting.

But then the rest of the game strikes and then you realize, you're fighting the same enemies over and over and over again which just better stats and then you go kill a boss, but then he's the same enemy that u already beaten before. The open world is just repeated assets over and over again. You never really used crafting and have ♥♥♥♥ tons of items to craft and everywhere you go you don't get interesting items just more crafting items that you won't use. World is empty. There is no reason to play this ♥♥♥♥ hole, but you still do it, because you just want to end this, but it never does. It sometimes gives you a new boss, which have way too much hp so you either use bleeding or see him do same attack every 5-10 sec.

No pvp zones, leveling is crazy, everybody running with ♥♥♥♥ tons of hp and heavy armor without fat rolls cuz of even better havel ring, most of people uses same weapons/spells which instakill you cuz all of the rests are useless since everybody have ♥♥♥♥ tons of hp. YOU CAN'T INVADE SOLO PLAYERS XD

COOP IS DEAD. Coop in open world where after every boss you need to again summon somebody, you can't use horse so that this empty world isn't as bad as it is, you can't roam freally, there are walls that will just block you from progressing since you're on coop, if you kill the wrong boss, you can't play coop on the whole area only because the game this there are no bosses even thou there are bosses.

0/10 like really, every game fromsoftware is better than this garbage, if this game would be cut to 1/5 of what it is it could be good and polished, but now, it's hot garbage in the summer.

Great game but abandoned. (You can still play it solo or co-op with friend and enjoy it)

It's made like typical online card games in which u get points after playing etc, to unlock more cards and even avatars, emote packs etc. But it's pure co-op and because it's abandoned you can either play with friend or enjoy it solo in which both options it's kinda sad that getting cards is kinda hard, some cards require hours of grind. Don't worry, to make some good decks you don't need to spend much hours. On start you can use like 50-60% of all cards i think.

It's made based on original TCG Lord Of The Rings with big changes. First of all it's way easier than physical game and if you buy one you have all dlcs and even random enounters which all are quite fun.

Whole game was dubbed so all voice lines in campaign are read by professional actors. It's really well done.

Overall it's a great game worth a price. It only lacks some quality of life improvements in making decks, but you can get used to it after a while.