Recent reviews by mig

This game delivers on the Total War experience. Very intresting, memorable tactical battles due to unit variety, terrain & weather effects. Campaign is also great with the different gods, legacies.

A great game held back by it's launch; It's probably one of the more pleasant paradox games to play casually, untill you get invaded by the Romans.

Patches break things you've paid for and don't get fixed.

Cash fromthe Cashcow

Unpatched, unfinished, uninstalled.

One of a kind. Total War on a massive scale where tactics and strategy rule supreme.
The title doesn't lie.

The most difficult decision before writing this review is wether I would recommend it or not.

Not recommending it would probably gather me more votes but that's easy way out.

If you are considering buying this game and expecting a "traditional" rpg with character options, interesting combat and encounters like Baldur's Gate I&II, Neverwinter Nights, Divinity series or Dragon Age: Origin you'll probably be disappointed. You might be pleasantly surprised by the setting though.

So what is this game then?

It calls itself the spiritual successor of Planescape Torment, a beloved, text-heavy old rpg which is a lesser known but much loved game in the genre.

In nearly every conversation I've had with another gamer who said he liked rpg's I've probably said: “Yeah, that's cool, but have you ever played Planescape Torment?” If he/she said “yes offcourse!” and I was drunk I probably hugged him or her.

I should stop asking that question …

If you enjoyed Planescape Torment you've probably backed this game so this review is rather pointless but you like reading wall's of text, clicking a button afterwards and influencing the world around you so, be my guest, and keep on reading.

Is this game something for me then?

I honestly don't know. It might be if you like exploring locations, talking to npc's, reading item descriptions and diving, head-on, into a world you haven't seen before.

The one thing I can assure you that you have never played a game like this one before.
Wether that's a good or bad thing is up in the air though. Like everything in life, the game is a mixed bag. Sometimes it shines and sometimes it stinks. Currently (06/03/2017) the game still has several annoying bugs, combat is repetitive, cumbersome and will test your patience.

It delivers on the text heavy style of its spiritual predecessor but unfortunately the story, although well told, isn't as good. Where Planescape left the downtrodden path of most rpg's where you're the focal point of the world who has to save the town/country/the world/planes of existence/ reality itself from a certain evil and his macguffin. Planescape told a personal story of a man trying to find the bane of his own existence, Tides manages to rehash the standard rpg story from the get go.

You're a castoff, on the run from or towards, depending on your point of view, of a big evil who threatens you and every one of your kind and the key to all this is, you guessed it, a certain macguffin that you need to repair.

Thankfully the creators, for the most part, told this story in a interesting setting and there are several memorable gems in the dialogues with npc's and companions

Why a positive score if you're mostly negative?

In a world without Planescape this game would have blown me away, in a world with Planescape it only rattled my cage. It was an interesting ride and if you, someday, want to play something that's more different then most rpg's then atleast put this game in your wish list.