Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy (finished the game on hard mode, had more problem with mini-bosses rather the final boss...)
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average (main quest is basically short, but you can explore and enjoy)
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of (didn't encounter something that bother me)
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
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☐ 10

UPDATE: I'm really on the fence with this one. I'm about 85% through the game and the experience has gone from fun to terrible without changing any experience. And that's the exact problem - the game never changes. What you're doing in the tutorial dungeon will be the same thing you're doing in the end dungeon, with zero alteration aside from maybe some reskinned monsters.
This is a 40-50 hour game, more with the DLC, and it only offers about 5-10 hours of original content. The first enemies you fight will be the last enemies you fight, only with more hit points. There are probably 50 or so dungeons, but only 5 different designs.
Basically this game is like pancakes. You wake up, haven't eaten, and you get a plate of pancakes, they're prepared really well, and it's a great meal. That's the first 10 hours of this game.
Then for lunch, it's pancakes again. Not exactly what you were hoping for but again, prepared well, they do the job. That's the next 10 hours.
Dinner, pancakes. And not fresh ones, the same ones from this morning. But now it's twice as many, and you have to eat them all. That's the last half of the game.
So I'm keeping this as a 'yes' because the first 10-20 hours are really, really fun. But the 2nd half of the game is all slog. You will find nothing new. Trust me, when you're playing the unlock mini-game for the 1,475th time, you'll just be pressing the 'auto-attempt' and burning through lockpicks, because money is almost irrelevant in this game, and the mini-game is way too frequent and takes way too long.
"How Long to Beat" could have a separate category for "without picking locks" and the game time would be cut in half.
So BUYER BEWARE, you are not getting a full game of fun, you are getting a good first half and a miserable 2nd half. So miserable, that I actually uninstalled it before even beating it. It's not worth it. It's just not worth the bland, dull, repetitive, and joyless experience. It's like the devs carefully crafted this great world, and when they were done with the first area, they were all happy and ready to move on. Then someone stuck their head in the room and said "hey, we're releasing this tomorrow, so just copy and paste what you have 5 more times to make the game 60 hours instead of 12."
A clunky work of passion. Quick disclosure: I played the original on another platform, and got about 75% done. I replayed different builds, and put in over 100 hours, just never made it to the finish line.
PROS:
The world is well realized, almost to a fault, but not quite there, hence I have it as a PRO. Like a lot of other good fiction, you get thrown into a world with a ton of names and locations that will take a while to grasp. If you're feeling confused for your first 10 hours, don't worry, the names will start to stick.
The voice acting is shockingly really well done, if at times a bit over the top. I think this may be what surprised me the most, that the voicing will REALLY hep you remember the characters. You might remember the voice more than the name.
The visuals and music are both very stylized to be high fantasy. It reminds me a little of Fable, only not as sloppy. The story is adequate, nothing cringe inducing, but also not super creative.
The combat is overall fun. It absolutely has flaws, but a net positive. You end up with a great set of combinations, and it can be really fun to put different things together.
The open world has some holdovers from when this was going to be an MMO, and you sometimes it feels pretty empty. But the actual design itself is great for the time.
CONS:
Buggy, buggy, buggy. It's not so much a high frequency of bugs, but the bugs that are there can stop the game cold. And a few of them are really well known. One early quest can get locked up because the item cannot be retrieved. This is a quest that leads to joining a faction, meaning that, if you can't finish the quest, you're locked out of the faction and all its quests, of which there are a lot.
The other side of combat, getting stun locked. I've heard that when you dodge roll, there are no I frames, meaning you can still get hit while dodging. Also, your combo attacks, while cool, are overanimated to the point of you leaving yourself open. Your final swing of the sword may look cool, but it certainly isn't a good way to fight.
The length and emptiness of the world made it tough for me to finish. There are 5 major areas in the vanilla game, and each area has sub-areas. By the time you're about halfway through an area, you're tired of it, but still have a while to go.
REMASTER PROS and CONS:
Since this game is now only available as the remaster "re-reckoning", and my version was the original, I have a few things I've noticed. Not much, because not much has changed.
PROS:
Camera angles can be adjusted, this is probably the biggest pro because it was a real problem in the original. There are other quality of life improvement for setting the game up.
Equipment seems to have been overhauled, that is, loot now seems more abundant, and more geared towards your class. No more being stealth and getting 10 hammers in a row, not yet at least.
CONS:
The game runs worse. It's not terrible, but you do get frame drops, and nothing in the remaster should be taxing on any system. The texture updates, while noticeable in back to back playing, aren't really noticeable in the game.
Unbelievably, they did NOT fix the bugs. That's absurd. You're remastering a game and you don't address the largest game-breaking bugs?
Really, THQ should've just bought the IP and re-released the original with all DLC included. No need to remaster it, just give an up to date patch that fixes the known bugs, and adds in some quality of life.
VERDICT:
If you own the original, I wouldn't bother with this, unless it's on a deep sale (how I got it). If you haven't played it before, and you want a decent action RPG, grab it.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☑ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

Its so funny reading the do not recommend reviews. They say this game is bog standard fantasy, that the lore is uninteresting, that the world is empty and boring. Yeah I get it bro you played the game for half an hour and checked out. If you like Elder Scrolls but want something a bit different this is the game for you. The Lore is SUPER INTERESTING actually if you actually listen to the Lorestones, read notes, listen to quest givers. It reminds me a lot of Oblivion. Yeah the game isn't your 'deep' 'dark' 'brooding' fantasy of some games but hey maybe not every game needs to be that way. This game is high fantasy fun with a hundred quests+. I love all the different faction questlines and how it integrates Celtic myth like no other game. Seriously try this game, you won't regret it.

Ellen was indeed right!!

Only a few hours in so far but can already tell it's something I'll like. Scratches that solo-version-of-wow itch I've had for some time now. Very Fable-esque too.

This game has the most lore I have ever seen, You can learn about the entire world just by playing and listening to the npcs talk