Review anarchistica 1/5 · Jan 6, 2019
Who puts the inventory under F?
Pro:
- Looks nice.
- Fairly unique classes.
- Somewhat open world.
- You can walk with WASD.
Con:
- Constantly rotating camera.
- You're just thrown into the game, there's no NPC telling you things or sending you on your way.
- Game crashed both times when trying to set graphics to highest setting.
- Inventory is under "F".
- Inventory offers no form of stat comparison for …
Pro:
- Looks nice.
- Fairly unique classes.
- Somewhat open world.
- You can walk with WASD.
Con:
- Constantly rotating camera.
- You're just thrown into the game, there's no NPC telling you things or sending you on your way.
- Game crashed both times when trying to set graphics to highest setting.
- Inventory is under "F".
- Inventory offers no form of stat comparison for items.
- Boring enemies. Thieves and wolves, really?
- Overly slow progression - 45 minutes in i still only have a single active skill.
- Combat is boring.
- If your attack skill is on cooldown clicking its button (right-mouse) doesn't result in a normal attack.
- All the female character options wear unnecessarily revealing clothing.
- The world constantly forces you into certain directions with trees and rivers.
- Yawn-inducing quests for random people you don't care about.
- The world feels dead.
Conclusion
Sacred 2 basically feels like an MMORPG. You're thrown into a lifeless, quasi-open world where you do boring quests for lifeless people and trudge through some of the worst combat i've seen to get better items and skills. Normally this promise of progression is at least somewhat motivating, not so here. You feel like you're going through the motions, there's no sense of urgency or any emotion whatsoever.
I would recommend pretty much every other ARPG i've played over this, especially Path of Exile which is free too.
