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Horrific pseudo RPG that provide illusion of open world, illusion of character creation and illusion of roleplay.

Only source of XP and money are mandatory annoying quests.

Every single "door" will have quest attached.

Can't enter town, can't enter house, can't cross river, can't do that, can't have that, absolutely everything is gated behind some nonsense and this become annoying really really fast.

Almost every quest rely on going somewhere and pass some check and then return back.

Combat is just bad, you can miss 10 times in row with 80% chance and die miserably, ever on easy every single combat encounter will result in injury, wolves and other critters will do damage ever if you have full plate armor.

Lots of creatures have absurd ranged always trigger attack, like slimes or frogs that will always attack screen away and attack always connects, no saving throws, no resistances, nothing, attack frog take atleast one attack in return no matter what.

Forced encounters kick you from stealth, break your formation and force your main character to stand in front of everyone, ignoring it's non combat role.

Crafting is horrific, you must run around with "tools" that break after crafting 5 arrows and rarely sold, visit first smith, no whetstone in stock, can't craft anything, nobody sell it, just FU moment.
Leveled up crafting to make weapons for party? good, visit blacksmith and it have total of 2 ingots in stock, entire freaking city have total of 2 ingots to sell.

Weapons have "attachment" system, that allows to improve weapons, issue is that every single attachment decay over time.
Attach "monocle" to bow, shot 50 times, monocle shatters to dust, no warning, no indication, nothing, it just gone.

trip on everything standup for 30 seconds, get knoked out by everything standup for 30 seconds

regretfully it's warcraft 3 kind of reforged.

severely under cooked, very very severely.

there not ever hotkeys or any settings for survival mode

bonk

Developers gone way too far with "unforgiving" and crossed line with "tedious and punishing", when everything freaking jump scare at you and you have absolutely no means to defend yourself, this is not any fun.

Bandits that see you off screen and have double your speed?
Crazy encounters when you are massively outnumbered?
Character builder that lack tool tips and do not explain what do what and you can't ever build your character without external tools?
Excessive randomness?
Absolutely crazy bad quests and rewards?

At very same time, after you did certain things and picked certain companions all difficulty is gone, you just run around stun locking everything to death with little to no effort.

Infinite wisdom of developers allowed to make great game with enemies that just teleport around in front of you, enemies that attack entire map across, 3 out of 4 mission objectives related to staying in circle and all this multiplied by absurd randomness of loot, that cannot be dealt with, as you can "ban" just a tiny fraction of items and that bans are one time this run only and cost resources.

No they did not made "reroll" button or anything like that, game decided to give you +1 health regen, deal with it.

Devs did fix horrific "escort capsule" objective, that force you walk entire map as snail pace 4 times, how it move at fraction of your speed and you can speedup process, but still, you must walk around entire map at least 5 times and as long as you not managed to pump speed bonuses, you will have around 14 minutes round no matter your skill, effort or anything like that.

Gothic 2 NOTR of 2025, there are few bugs and few issues if you do silly things that devs not expected you to do, but overall gameplay, stability and all around balance is great.

Same as Gothic, most enemies can melt you in just few hits, there is very limited level scaling and you can decide your own pace and difficulty by going path you want.

Game suffers from severe balance and logic issues, you have 40 HP at start with +5 HP per level, sounds great, spells and special weapons have around 200 damage, this probably should kill some targets instantly, right?

Well, everyone else have HP in thousands and you are only person in the world that have such absurdly low amount of HP.
Every single battle, every single encounter is boring grind, hit target 500 times with spear, just dance in circles for 5 minutes.

Oh stop, i got that scroll with 268 damage, i should use it here, it cost 150 coins after all, boom, nothing, target lost like 10% of HP.

Burn all your money on mines and traps to deal with someone problematic - well, traps that ignore armor and deal 200 damage barely can scratch local fauna and human enemies are on completely different level.

Gothic games were challenging, but world and your character followed similar rules, random roadside robber won't have 2000 HP.

It's fun in theory, but only in theory, combat is extremely dull and repetitive, mechanics related to fog are stupid grind and ever mobile games have better things to offer.
Recent changed made game worse, far far worse then it was originally, entire concept of relics is micromanagment hell and disaster, i can't possible imagine how to enjoy them.
Over course of over a year game not advanced anywhere, combat is same placeholder as it was on day of original release.
Concept of wand leveling with leveling stations located in remote places so you can watch how your mages walks here all day long is great, very moment i unlocked room with station i just alt-f4 and uninstall.

Not playable in current stage.