The good
- it works?

The bad
- enemies have bare bone AI
- environmental threats mechanic can be annoying at the beginning
- performance issues in co-op
- no sense of progression, as enemies just get more and more buffed
- archers have problem to shot both uphill and downhill
- enemies move slowly next to the player, but run unnatural fast when they want to close the distance
- gear in shops is not sorted by level or even type, just displayed randomly
- really grindy, playing game with beating each map only once ends with really under-leveled character
- auto-lock while using bow is so aggressive it often hits closest mob enemy instead of boss

Conclusion:
I would not recommend this one even as the last resort, unless you like grind. Game is playable, but unbalanced and extremely repetitive

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Story:

Giant wants to start the Ragnarok, and our mission is to stop them! And avenge death of our comrades! As shallow as can be. Nothing of substance or interest. Devs use Norse mythology, but don't even try to make it interesting.

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Gameplay:

Diablo-like game. In theory we're supposed to slash enemies, get exp, find better gear etc. In fact game is totally unbalanced and it takes 2 arrows to kill basic mob on the 1st mission, and it takes 5 - 6 shots to kill the same mob in the last mission, with high level gear. I already moved difficulty to easy from normal, and was still not able to play with sense of any progress...

We can use single or two hand weapons; hammers, bows, swords, axes etc. But experience points are focused on specific god and tied to type of weapon, so if character uses bow (Skadi tree) and invest into Loki tree - they will waste ability points. It is also not possible to respec the character.

Loot we find is barely better from the one we currently have. Merchants have their own problem, as goods they provide are not sorted in anyway. First time ever I saw items to not be sorted by either level (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) or type (light, medium, heavy). Player is forced to move cursor over the icons to see the price and extrapolate how "good" item is. There are item miniatures, but they are so small it's hard to see tier of the item. Player inventory is also not sorted in any way (apart from dividing it into things like armor, helmet, weapon, ring etc.). There are no sorting options that would allow to change way items appear on the screen.

Game is too much zoomed in, and it's not possible to zoom it out. So character is often hit by attack that was started off-screen. It's especially bad in boss battles where areas are tiny. Enemies are copy-pasted and dumb, more annoying than interesting. Bosses are mostly just bigger version of the regular enemies.

It is possible to upgrade smith / armor maker / shop / rune maker. And kind of mandatory as higher level gear is locked behind those upgrades. Which is fine. But kind of pointless when player has ability to upgrade building to max level but unlocked upgrades are unusable, as items are 5 levels above player current level. I did take my time to clean all maps from all enemies and do all side objectives, and was still 5 levels below the limit. You can replay levels (which I did in few cases), but it feels too grindy to be 25 - 30% under-leveled when playing the game normally.

There is no complex crafting, all player can do is buy weapon from vendor and hope stats will be better than what we already have. Bought weapon has random rarity and stats. Simple but sometimes (especially at the beginning) annoying mechanic of environmental hazard where player needs to go back to fireplace / cave / ice / whatever to not die in the open.

I played as DPS / archer and their tree focus on critical damage obviously. And on slight (but still present) chance to kill enemy outright with an attack. Plus some slowing down enemies with ice. None of this work on mini bosses or bosses. On mobs, sometimes. What is the point of having whole tree focused on abilities, and then making bosses immune to all of this, leaving player with only basic attack? Even if devs think that 10% chance to OHK enemy is too much - they should drop it to 5%. Or 1%. Not make tougher enemies immune to effect...

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Technicalities:

Graphic - ⭐️⭐☆ - it's fine. But game should be more zoomed out to be able to see more of the screen

Music - ⭐️☆☆ - it's the same track over and over again with bare-bone voice acting

Bugs - ⭐️☆☆ - game was barely playable in co-op, enemies can stagger lock played and kill it, level geometry problems

The good
- options to role-play the character are staggering
- one of not many games that allows player to fail in order to progress and improve
- idea of focusing the narration on constant dialogue of different personality traits in the character head
- game shows different society concepts - liberalism, democracy, socialism, nationalism etc. without painting one as "the good one"
- interesting story and not so obvious ending
- full voice acting as a free update

The bad
- note we can re-try failed ability check remains in the journal even when it's no longer available
- game can randomly crash with "Unity engine" problem
- game can't sometimes keep up with loading textures on the edges of the map when camera is zoomed out

Conclusion:
This game is really good. I'd only wish they would avoid some of the issues I mentioned in the negatives. Want to play as smart detective on the case to solve the murder? No problem! Want to play as brutal narcotic addict that can't add 2 to 2? All right, you will just need to find another way to solve the problem.

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Story:

Player wakes up in the hostel room without memory of where or who they are. Turned out they drank so hard they lost memory, and don't even remember their name. Only thing they do remember is that they came to the city to solve the murder case. Player is quickly joined by detective Kim - bit of the sidekick that don't do much more than give advice from time to time and join talking to NPCs.

Obviously game would not be good if case would be as obvious as it seems. So there is quite a bit of running around, looking for clues and talking to the characters. There are couple medium-long side quests that are well written and don't feel like repetitive "go, kill, bring back the loot".

As much as it's story about the murder - it's also story about person who needs to recover their memories, and decide how their life will look like from now on.

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Gameplay:

Isometric RPG with leveling up character, tons of dialogues and some dressing up. 4 main abilities categories are: intellect, psyche, physique and motorics. Each category has 6 abilities. Like logic, encyclopedia, conceptualization for the intellect. There are few ways in which abilities are used: 1) they allow to pass specific checks during conversations to learn more or force NPC to do something, 2) they influence what character can see in the environment 3) it influences the way character thinks. Low ability level will make you miss a lot of opportunities connected to this area, but high ability level will skew your entire way of thinking. For example someone with low reaction skill will not be able to avoid being hit by the NPC, but character with high reaction skill will think it's a good idea to try charge on armored enemy, like they are like in a Matrix movie. Low encyclopedia will make player look like idiot, but high encyclopedia will clutter player thoughts with unimportant details.

I played as a high intellect, medium motorics and low psyche and physique. So my mind was cluttered with random facts from encyclopedia, I was able to see "material" clues in the environment, and could show flaws of NPCs reasoning. But if I'd go with high physique and psyche (which I plan in the future) I would be macho type that can find how to break doors (instead of looking for way around) and see "spiritual" clues. There is no wrong approach in this game, although being hyperly focused on only few traits may not be a good idea. Sorry minmaxers.

On top of investing points to level up abilities directly we can also unlock thoughts in the thoughts cabinet. They need to be "discovered" firstly. Picking often "boring responses" when talking to NPCs will cause player to have internal dialogue with themselves, and it will unlock "really boring cop" thought. We can then decide if we want to internalize it (making it part of our character) or leave it be. Internalizing thoughts can take couple in-game hours, and most of the time gives penalty to abilities. After all when you obsess over question of "am I really a boring cop?" you will not be able to focus properly on your motorics. Which is really elegant way of building up the character. Although player doesn't know what perks will be given before thought is internalized. It may be getting few cents each time new object on the map is clicked (useful), or +2 to strength -1 to encyclopedia if player don't wear any shirt (not useful IMO). It it's also possible to wear clothes to get +/- ability points.

Why would anyone gamble with thoughts and swapping clothes when you can just invest in the ability? Abilities have learning cap, that depends on how many skill points were invested in particular category on the creation page. So if I invested 4 points into intellect I won't be able to have logic of more than 5. I did not invest much into psyche, so my abilities were locked at level 2 or 3. And to circumvent this player can internalize thought that will rise all psyche learning cap by 1. Or use ugly pants that will give me +2 to strength.

Talking to NPCs doesn't have one "proper way". Player can be logical and serious or behave like fat drunk disco star. Both approaches will be valid, and will not lock player progression or make it hard. That's where this game shines - in fact you can create your character, and play it the way you like. Not like it's "supposed to be played". Some characters will not like player of course, like I was not really liked by one merchant that was really into "spiritual realm", as I said it's pile of crap.

Some actions require specific tool - like wire cutters, pry bar or plastic bag. Those need to be equipped in the tool slot. With flashlight and bag player can find objects in dark areas and collect bottles to earn some pocket change. If there is need to open doors - different tool need to be equipped. It's not really an issue thought.

There is not much action apart from walking between locations and NPCs, and there is a lot to read. Just like in VNs or Shadowrun. Pages on pages of dialogues. So if reading is not your thing - you will not like this game. Some lines are voice acted but mostly to give more depth to the NPC. Most of the time it will be just few opening lines. Developers announced full voice acting as a free update. Although don't think I'd have patience to wait for character to tell their whole dialogue, when even now I was skipping some long dialogues.

Only bad thing I can say about this game is that it does not fail or hide checks that are no longer available. I tried to brute force bin lid, but as I was weak - I failed. So I went to look for key instead. I opened the bin but later realized that check is still listed in the journal as "you can retake it". It is confusing as I sometimes did not even remember I saw an option to do the check in the first place. And now it's nowhere to be found. There are characters that disappear from game, but their ability checks do not. So it is obvious design flaw for me.

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Technicalities:

Graphic - ⭐️⭐☆ - graphic is stylized to be aquarelle painting which is nice to look at, but for me it was lacking details
Music - ⭐️⭐☆ - music is quite repetitive but voice acting is really good
Bugs - ⭐️⭐☆ - only one I found is random crashing to desktop, which does not count as game-breaking but surely as annoying one. Game even managed to crashed during credits