Risen

One of my favourite games of all time, but getting a bit old now! Devs, any chance of a remaster? This game is way too good to fade into obscurity.

Man I really love the Parana Bytes formula and they truly nail it with this game. So far this feels almost as good as gothic 1 and 2. I love the combat.

I bought all the Risen games.

If your a fan of Gothic you have to play this game aswell,really great game!

Great game. Love everything about it. Apocalyptic vibes, great music

The game that made me snap a keyboard in half. But that was in 07 or 08. Anyway. Yeah, so you start on a beach fighting this bird, and you have a piece of wood in your hand. Lets just say that if you have problems fighting in this game, its a rythm or a dance, learn the moves and you will never be hit by anything, but thats the melee part. Slow start at first but gets traction later on as you skill up and gear up. When it comes to the bow, it will feel like all but the last skill will do nothing and the last skillup will turn your bow into a machinegun, its actually borderline OP, for all the right reasons, you worked hard to get there anyway!. The magic though, its interesting, you have a lot of spells to choose from and no matter what route youre going with, having some scrolls or runes is always needed for various things. Some are used for puzzle solving or getting to or finding secrets hidden everywhere, like you get this snail spell you crawl through holes with, its just cozy, ...

8/10

The game consists of 4 chapters and, for me, the chapter 1 was the best one, becouse you are interacting with many characters and you are choosing on which side you want to be between the two opposing factions based on your own understanding which option is the best for you. Unfortunately, your choice is almost totally irrelevant from chapter 2 onwards becouse the game is going in one direction like acquiring certain items in similar dungeons and fighting groups of same enemies. Also, some options in the game are almost useless in my opinion like blacksmithing where finding ore and forging weapons are almost useless becouse throughout the game you can find weapons that are that strong or even stronger than forged ones. Goldsmithing is also somewhat useless thing becouse i didn't need it at all till the end of the game even though i played both sides, as a bandit and a member of the Order. And the ending could be better honestly. You beat the final boss and the main character leaves the...

Solid RPG that has a rich story and immersive world with several locations and characters that make you give a hoot about whats going on.

A good start of a trilogy, even though it does change style and leans more into a pirate theme with the second and third. Play this, then the second, then stop. The third is clunky, it has bad story and the tutorials and dialogues makes me feel like a freshly spawned toddler.