Eador: Masters of the Broken World Review (Durontan)
Okey, so after 500 hours of this game and after I passed the game let me give you a simple review without spoilers:
For those that don't want to read: I give the game 8/10. I take 1 point for lack of working multiplayer and 1 point for overrepeatable ways to play. At some point of the game it is virtually impossible to switch playing as evil if you went deep into good or vice versa and trying to play neutral is an incredible challenge aka not possible to keep the balance as such. Turn based lovers, go for it, you won't regret it.
Now for a longer review:
Game is HUGE... but maybe not on a good way. Let me explain. Game is broken (campaign) into two main parts. Battle on the shards and decisions in astral plane. Short version is battle on the shards is 95% of the game and every shard is a hard as hell thing to play if you play on higher levels. It will take you around 200-450 hours to pass the game on one of medium difficulty levels (there are A LOT OF DIFFICULTY LEVELS) and at around 100-150 hours of gameplay you will know that every single shard when you disect the game to it's core for the most part is rehash, repeat. Game also doesn't have a functioning multiplayer which honestly.... would probably be fantastic in this game BUT also problematic as waiting on your turn might take 10+ minutes when things start to happen.
I know it looks like I am trashing the game but I just want to give you a heads up what to expect from this game from start. Tutorial is oversimplified compared to what there is in the game in general. Choices, ways to build, so many things are not explained at all, you have to learn them.
Now after all that... this game storyline is one of the best I've seen in ages (be ready and willing to read a lot, and enjoy it, humour of the creators is fantastic). There are multiple ways to end the game, both win or lose (yes, you can fail and lose the campaign).
Even as shards themselves are /repeat, it is not a /repeat in it's core. Best thing I can compare it to is Diablo 2 map wise. Is it the same thing all the time and generally you know what you do? YES. Do you enjoy it? HELL YEA. Game is MADE for turn based fans that are willing to spend hours on hours on hours to try different strategies and different playstiles and there are abbundant of them.
Warm recomendations for people who spent months playing a single map of Heroes of might and magic 3 and are ready to play another 30-50 of them after you pass it (no joke, maps are that huge sometimes). Can you just rush some maps to pass them in 10ish-20ish minutes? Yes.... but what is the fun in that? You always enjoy looking at your mighty army and overgeared heroes.