Some spoilers in here.
I felt really disappointed. The maps were almost completely useless, even if you did find what you were looking for on a map good luck finding it in game. The whole, 1/2 game of adventure, 1/2 game of kingdom sim made the whole thing just crap. There were good parts, but man it felt more like an arcade game with it's lack of content.
Way too few quests, and you could only do one at a time
Shitty, unhelpful map.
Crappy grind-based weapons. I used my hero's weapons the entire game, I never once got knocked out.
Absolutely no consequences. I like to play these kind of moral games in extremes. The first playthrough I went full good (my only playthrough), even in the kingdom. I ended up way, way in the negative when the darkness hit, but there was absolutely no mention of it. 6.5 million people died and when the very short and easy boss fight was over, everything was hunky-dory in the kingdom. I was really disappointed with that. Edit: Ok so I beat the game and stopped playing. When I went back in I found that indeed everyone except a few guards and some questgivers were killed off. Oh well, on to the evil playthrough.
The ending as it pertains to the boss was horrible as well. So he takes control of someone and I beat that person up...and the whole invasion just winks out? They did a really good job when you first met crawler, but the ending was just blech.
The menu system was annoying as hell, and I couldn't find how much of something I was carrying (or even if I WAS carrying something) unless I tried to sell it. That might have just been me though.
I'll probably playthrough a second time to be completely evil, but really just to see the changes in the landscape more than anything.
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