Recent reviews by Johnnydement

Daniel mullins metagame is awesome.

And inscriptyon is a great card game, with a simple yet powerful system that makes every gameenjoyable.

The game is pretty, the story is interesting and characters interesting (at the beginning, but they become dull and empty as you advance).
BUT, the game feels unfinished. There's no really any challenge (that is not necessary a bad thing), but when there's no way for you to fail, any difficult potion, quest... the game becomes boring.
Minigames are repetitive an dull, they don't scale ever in difficult, it's impossible to fail a diagnosis, nor a town minigame.
The game lacks a calendar and city events, that's what makes HM/RF games vibrant, PP has an active population, that interact between them constantly, but this has 0 impact in your gameplay.
Dating is useless, no point in doing, no advancement.

The game is good for a start, but it becomes tedious.

TLDR: Game is good, but too short and too easy for a finished product.

I got this game so many years ago, I didn't even remember it.
What I do know is I bought an uncensored game, taht no longer is, and I got no mail stating otherwise, seems at some point there was a DLC, that now is paid, but noone told about it (or awarded it to already owners of the game... bad
Tried to contact dev, no answer
Anyway, decided to give it another go as I don't remember much about it (besides looking as unfinished and rough)... well I do remember it playable, with a much worse machine... now it doesn't even move... game detects me as "ultra" graphics quality (don't think it's that great, this should work on an XP machine with 4Gb ram... well, it stucks in a Ryzen 7 with 32 and a 3070 GTX...

Totally unplayable unless I pick "low" quality… seems this is just me... but adding to the new paywall, and the much better alternatives, cya...

The game has nice ideas, but is too short and too easy, mastered it in first playthough, got perfect ending with almost all careers completed...
- No real sense of impact in choinces, my sensation is that there's no "correct" answer, what it feels perfect, but also, no real change
- The game is too short and doesn't cover adult age, once you finish your SAT exam, game is over and restarts with your kid.
- No real choice on life partner, no flirting, no options, nothing...
- No genetics for your kid, you can work your ass, but your kid will no inherit any of your smarts, physical or whatever...

I really enjoyed the 4 hours I played, but find myself thinking, already? and replay value for me is 0

After second playthough, I confirm my previous impression. All quests repeat (at least friends change), how can people not grow up if they handled quests to your parents? your fathers have no impact (and maybe make no sense with their comments and the previous playthrough) neither time passes... I expected to start in the 80-90 ties and end on a second/third generation nowadays...

Never as good as the original, but a nice remake, sotry is quite interesting, and difficulty is goodly adjusted for new generations ;)

I gived money to Richard Garriott in 2013 to bring me a new AAA RPG story focused, with plenty of options and varied gameplay. Not little money, I got the 125$ tier!

On 2016, I decided to try the game, after avoiding all previous releases in order to avoid wipes...

And I find a 2000 game, not even 2010, outdated graphincs, clumsy interface, boring lore...

I've seen during 3 years how they've milked the game keeping selling houses and ítems for an unfinished game, they took the same approach as Star Citizen with the big difference being this is a crappy game meanwhile SC is showing incredible results...

- Outdated graphics - can improve? doubt it
- Clumsy interface - can improve? seems pretty final to me...
- Boring and Static combat - Ugh! this was already outdated in 2005! LOTRO or WOW are way more dinamic!
- Limited character creation - One of the promises was a bast one... HAS to improve...
- Subpar optimization - Can't be this bad in final

Don't have much hope for the final product... will check again when it happens...

Really dissapointed

Game seems great, unfortunatelly I've been unable to play it due to bugs... putting aside the screen size issue (I can only play in small size or it goes all black), I'm facing map issues, where I walk on an empty map, and from time to time local maps where I can't do nothing :/

Short, controls are a bit clumsy and the story a bit lacking, but I enjoyed it, great tragedy story