Thaumaturge - An emotional roller coaster (review)

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The Thaumaturge is an isometric, story-rich RPG with a unique take on turn-based combat, character development features, and investigation mechanics, facing you with morally ambiguous choices - set in a world teeming with mysterious powers and strange ethereal beings called salutors.
The year is 1905. Warsaw lives under the yoke of imperial Russian tsardom. Its inhabitants constitute a diverse group of different ancestries, views, and beliefs with often conflicting interests: Russian soldiers, Jewish merchants, Polish townspeople, and more. Despite the circumstances, the city is a buzzing metropolis, where one can attend a breathtaking party with the high society, and later get robbed in one of the dark alleys of the Praga district. A city of great hopes and dreams on one hand and dark desires on the other.

[@shawnheatherly]

My takeaway from all this is that Thaumaturge 2, should it ever happen, will probably be much closer to what I wanted this game to be.

[@tstable25]

Honestly I don't know if it would be because I feel like a lot of people like this sort of detective power trip. People like the power but without the hard work and sometimes the game doesn't present nearly enough information to make logical conclusions.

[@NoiseBerryGames]

Yeah nothing I saw or heard in this video makes me any keener to go back to the game or regret dropping it when I did haha. Combat was already very dull in the small bit I played, so it's disappointing to hear it doesn't improve later on at all. Completely agree on the voice acting, although I would probably go even further and say it is all legitimately bad.

[@tstable25]

Yeah the combat gets more complex but you can quickly settle into a routine that is only occasionally broken. Some of the VA was alright during the later parts of the game.