Maybe I'm just a bit spoiled by Larian CRPGs, but this feels like it's got too much jank & baggage for a game that's relatively recent (as far as the genre is concerned). The game follows the Pathfinder 1e ruleset way too closely, failing to adequately adapt it to a computer-controlled scenario, especially considering the lack of transparency it provides in the mechanisms at work, making it feel like I'm playing with a shitty GM who's changing rules on the fly. I was excited to see that choices seemed to matter, only to have a character immediately decide to join the other team, accusing me of doing the very thing I had just gotten a scolding for not doing, and that's where I decided I wasn't even going to bother finishing the prologue.

I genuinely want to love this; the setting is incredibly well-realised, and the detail leaves things feeling almost simulation-esque rather than gamey. However, my initial impressions are that it will not be worth the frustration to get through it all. My biggest issue is that the save system is way too cumbersome for a game as punishing as this. While I understand that that is easily circumvented with mods, I've encountered enough poor game design choices otherwise in my first few hours that I cannot bother to increase my time committed to this by tenfold in hopes it gets better. And I'm sure it would get better as it's got a lot going for it; I'm just simply getting too old for this shit.