Massively overrated

This game needs polish, and loads of it. I thought maybe it deserves a 3, but all the crashes grant this a well-deserved 1.

Where to start? Paper thin plot. Non-existent, uninteresting, unoriginal, uninspiring to drive you forward. All the characters are cardboard cutouts, but that offends the thickness of cardboard.

Plotwise, something or other is going on, and that means you are sent off vault to vault with no logical sense of why. Yes, grans being all mysterious, but others also send you pointlessly to places. Cutscenes are laughably incoherent, where Rose makes these incredible assumptions and deductions based on random visions and events. Oh no, hes after the hammer...because hes holding it. Guess shes psychic or something.

Ridiculously unbalanced: cakewalk for assassins that can 1 or 2 hit kill anything quite early, very difficult for shamans.

Broken dialogue. Badly written as well, complete with weak grammar, poor wording, self-conscious, and worse yet, it seems like missing speech (such as the goons in grans home after Loki vault). One of those guys also freezes the game consistently partway through his text.

A lot of the art is also very amateurish. Think teenaged Deviant art.

Repetitive gameplay and combat. Rinse, lather, repeat. Puzzle (if they can be called that) elements pander to a kid level of turning a single valve to open something, or sneaking by characters that are surely blind, deaf, and mute.

Weak tutorial. They explain a few screens, but you may continue to be mystified by what all the other numbers and letters mean in your gear. And again, the crashing. Other reviewers speak more eloquently of this. Be prepared to load this often.

Such. A. Mess.

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