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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 277.0 hrs on record (209.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 31 Aug, 2024 @ 3:04am
Updated: 28 Nov, 2024 @ 1:51am

This game is a legit masterpiece. Would recommend for anyone who likes the classic crpg (like Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, this game has many things making it very similar in feeling of BG2) with a true power fantasy feeling, where your character and your party grows as the heroes, or heroic villains, the world deserves. Party banter is very much like in BG2, you have funny little chats when you rest and your party members have different comments often on things happening through the story, the story is varied a bit by your choices clearly, and you can become a true power, ascending to greatness. Your mythic path might lead to becoming an Angel, Demon, Lich, Gold Dragon.. and you can rival the gods eventually.

You will lead your party, and you will lead and manage armies in sort of Heroes of Might & Magic type of minigame mode also on the side at few points of the story, that i personally like. You can skip/automate that if wanna just focus on the traditional party playing.

People often ask things like "This or BG3?" Why "or" is my question? Play both. For different reasons. WotR is more complex what comes to combat and how differently can build classes/archetype/multiclass combos, but BG3 has fancy cutscenes and everything is voiced. It's almost interactive movie. In WotR there are no fancy cutscenes, it's more like BG2, and not everything is voiced. So it's like comparing a classic book against a movie. But what people with imagination know, with books some things are left to your imagination to fill in the blanks, so things can be what you want them to be and how you vision some thing things. People still love Lord of the rings books even after there are movies about the books. Still, all the spell effects, sounds and music is 10/10 in my honest opinion in WotR, looks and feels good to play, but yes - it has that "classic look" of BG2 era, and for me that is a good thing, it has nostalgic feeling, that you are playing a game, that you played years ago, it might have been old already then, but it feels nostalgic.. i love BG2 because i learned to play it from my big brother, same as we did play some old Heroes of Might & Magic cames in co-op together, good times. ^^

Enough said, top3 game for me among ANY crpg ever. There really is no other game like this, and i REALLY hope Owlcat makes us Pathfinder 3 someday, their team did so awesome work with this and i love it. I usually dislike some "Special Edition Early access giga bundle for 100eur order now!" gimmicks, but if Owlcat would announce Pathfinder 3 that would be more of this same, i would instantly order and pay that 100eur and would be like "You don't even need to explain what's in the box.." :D Not joking, i'd just buy it. Because this game is so good, and it has good replayability also, but still i just want more of it after this. <3
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