I'm liking Bound by Flame quite a bit. I'm near the end of Act I (there are 3 acts.) The trophy list is pretty easy and mostly comes naturally, though there are 4 pairings (2 per gender) and that requires 2 complete playthroughs and 4 playthroughs total of Act III (1 per pairing.) You also have to max out the three skill trees; you get 2 skill points per level and you can max a tree out at level 19, so I'm sitting on all my points then will save/reload to max out all three in turn when I get that far.
The character progression is interesting. All of the progression comes from skill upgrades and feats (you get 1 feat skill per level.) You start at 100hp and 100 mana and that's what you have at the end of the game unless you upgrade those through the feat system (still only gets you up to 120/120 max.) The skills are things like upgrading your parry radius from 120 degrees to 360, increasing the chance of a crit on a parry, and things of that nature. There's also skill for regeneration, improving your ability to interrupt enemy attacks or knock them down, etc..
Since I'm holding onto all my skill points my character is a bit feeble even on easy. There are points in the game where you can get swarmed a bit and so I'm having to go pretty carefully. If I let myself get surrounded then I get pounded into the dirt pretty quickly due to poor parry radius and even common enemy attacks hitting pretty hard.
This is my first Spiders game, so it's gotten me more interested in playing Of Orcs and Men. I'm pretty curious how they went from developing Of Orcs and Men to having the prequel, Styx: Master of Shadows being developed by a different company, though.
back to bed if they got up then.
