Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition.
For those who missed my 1st thoughts on this, since I didn't post them on CAG -
read here.
So, I'm now some 30 hours or so into this game. Got some thoughts, so I'm gonna share some.
So, I've finished what feels like the first main chapter of the story and moved onto what's probably the 2nd one here. I finished off an evil force of sorts (this was around some 20 hours in - and this alone felt like it could've been its own game) and began taking a land over as a Baron, now managing my new lands & whatnot.
So, once you take over the lands, you can manage them, on the big overland map. You can shape your city/lands/town; built it a bit; and listen to requests from incoming people. You can set advisors (often fellow NPC's from the city and/or party members) to do things and deal w/ certain situations, which reminds me of the War Table stuff that you had in say Dragon Age: Inquisition - as you'll get rewards, improve stuff, and things of that sort from dealing with these situations.
Though, here's the twist on the War Table/Land Management here: since this game's on a calendar & schedule here and there can be time-based for events, missions, management issues, etc. - you have to take stuff on yourself before and/or assign stuff to someone to take on that has time limits before it ends....or else something will go wrong. Even after doing the usual world-exploring, adventuring across the game-world, and quest-stomping - you'll need to go back to your Throne Room and War Table often, to constantly get new missions, quests, and/or situations to deal with.
I've also taken on one of the DLC's built into the main game's campaign (Wildcards DLC) and got a new party member from doing it, from taking on that short quest; talking to the NPC and learning more info about that NPC and the situation there; and whatnot. With the new race & class that comes w/ this particular party member - without going too far into that character and their intriguing story & situation here - this NPC can be a beast, on the battlefield. This NPC also feels essential to the game, as I feel like I've tipped some of the tides here and battles b/c this NPC & the skills this NPC possesses...and also something else interesting & unique this NPC has, w/ a certain game mechanic & all that this NPC has.
So, far, some 30 hours in and all - yes, I'm really enjoying this game a ton. And it doesn't even feel like I've totally scratched the surface of this big & sprawling epic here, even after these 30 hours or so, in which this feeling just feels so out of both the Dragon Age: Origins and Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 playbook here.
