Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - My UnFair Review - After 600h+ - Best game ever created?
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- Is Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous worth playing in 2021? - My UnFair Review - Best game ever created - best crpg ever created
Here is a review for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous in 2021.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - My Fair Review
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous worth playing in 2021?
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous worth playing?
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous review.
SECTIONS and how I rated Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
1. STORY 10/10
2. GAME BUGS AND OPTIMIZATION 7/10
3. GAME TIME 10/10
4. GAME DIFFICULTY 10/10
5. MAPS AND GRAPHICS 10/10
6. GAMEPLAY 10/10
7. LEVELING AND ITEMISATION 10/10
8. NPC'S AND ENEMIES 10/10
9. MUSIC AND SOUND 9/10
CONCLUSION - 86 POINTS(9 SECTIONS) - 9.5/10 FINAL VERDICT for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. 10/24/2021
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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous [4K] - 21 TIPS and TRICKS - Guide/Build/Mechanics/Opinion
Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.
Discover the Story
Your path will lead you to the Worldwound, where the opening of a rift to the Abyss has unleashed all-consuming terror across the land. For over a century, the neighboring nations have fought fearlessly, trying to drive the enemy back - but to little avail.
Now, you have the chance to put an end to this conflict, but the path to salvation is far from clear-cut. Will you become a shining angel, backed by noble paladins? Or a powerful necromancer with hordes of immortal undead in your thrall? Or something else entirely? Lead your army and challenge mighty demon lords. Your crusade will set in motion a chain of events that will leave you - and the world itself - forever changed.
PLAY YOUR HERO, YOUR WAY
Create any character imaginable with the flexibility, richness, and depth of the Pathfinder First Edition ruleset. Choose from 25 classes, 12 character races, and more than a thousand spells, feats, and abilities to suit your personal playstyle.
FOR EVERY CHOICE, A CONSEQUENCE
Your decisions have more weight than ever before. Your goal is clear, but you must forge your own path to it. Who will die, and who will live? Who will stay, and who will go? Make your choices, and watch the world around you change.
A NEW WAY TO FIGHT
Enjoy two combat modes as you slay your enemies - real-time with pause or turn-based. Switch between them on the fly, so you can always take things as slowly - or as quickly - as you like. The unique Pathfinder ruleset also allows you to perform advanced combat maneuvers, like mounted combat. Use them wisely!
GATHER YOUR PARTY
A cast of more than 10 unique companions is ready to join your cause. Earn their trust and respect, and they will have your back no matter what dangers lie ahead. And if you get on their bad side, well… Maybe it’s time to part ways.
LEAD THE CRUSADE
You will need much more than a party of adventurers to cleanse the land of its demonic scourge. Take command of the crusaders and lead them to victory - both as a strategist, controlling the battle from above, and as a field commander, in a new tactical combat mode.
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
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00:00 Intro
00:58 Story
03:16 Bugs and Optimization
04:22 Game Time
05:10 Difficulty
06:21 Maps and Graphics
07:12 Gameplay
09:31 Leveling and Itemisation
11:59 Npc's and Enemies
13:37 Music and Sound
14:44 Final Verdict - Ігри
Party composition, all companions, advanced builds and guides for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
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ua-cam.com/video/oqCkJw0VaAs/v-deo.html - Pathfinder: Kingmaker - The Ultimate Guide [2020]
ua-cam.com/video/PfePqf-uuL8/v-deo.html - Top 20 Best Starting Builds for Advanced players
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ua-cam.com/video/h8i7AW2cnbM/v-deo.html - 21 TIPS and TRICKS - Guide/Builds/Mechanics/Opinion
Wow. Now this is a real review from someone who finished the game, instead of reviewing before finishing the game like many other reviewers. Thank you!! Great work!!
I only do reviews after I'm 100% done with the game and then I let some time pass for me to write a proper review with cool head, that will never change, don't care about clicks and rushing my vids.
Thanks for watching! :)
@@Werglia Comrade may i ask were are you from ? and how long u been here in UA-cam? i just discovered your channel, some people may consider your reviews simplistic, but i like the sincerity and that you don't waste time. I like your reviews most of all i hope you do more
I have 400+ hours in the game and I STILL WANT TO PLAY for hundreds of hours... Amazing.
The same here, i literally can't stop playing
Man, your review should reach up straight to the Owlcat Games, seriously. I hope more and more people see this, because this game deserves attention - and you too!
Thanks! :)
It does deserve attention. As a major failure and to showcase how much lies and spitting in people's faces a company can do, while still having the game praised as anywhere near Angry Bird's let alone Baldur's Gate or Pillars of Eternity. Honestly it's easy for the guy to praise the game in 17 minutes cos i could talk for 10 hours what is wrong with it.
They will drop this half-baked and disfunctional like kingmaker, no doubt about it (you can already see it; each patch is more and more illusion/conjuration spells that cease to work), im honestly done trusting this company, they are straight up thieves.
@@TrueRazarus Go ahead, record and talk for 10h, then edit and upload. I can't wait to see that video, for sure it will be more then amusing.
Make sure you share a link once you are done!
Discovered this channel thanks to your build guides. Your walkthrough feels extremely real and lore friendly and watching it i learnt how to build characters with my own brain and how to actually play this game. The best crpg player i ever watched. Good job!
The main problem when making guides is lack of real time, the only way for people to learn this game is from the actual walkthroughs(and they take a lot of time).
Thanks btw!
Right when I needed to get back into CRPG's after a little break playing other genre's, you drop this gem. I've been keeping an eye on your vids knowing I would be playing this in the future. Thanks from California Werglia.
I advice you to wait for the dlc's to drop and play the perfect version of the game, but you are not wrong if you start right away.
Put it down for months because I couldn't win on campaign map because morale was knackered, had to find a cheat mod, but once I took Drezen, the game is beautiful.
I loved all your videos and guides. I will miss the wotr content I hope you still make some vids on it!
Older gamer here, I needed the turn based because I'm not as quick as I used to be on managing things. So I really liked the option.
You won't miss WotR content cause I'll release content for it for sure in the next 3 years regulary. Don't worry :)
I’m in my third run and I love it: it has its rough spots but it’s a masterpiece
I'm still only on start of Act 5 (180h), but I fully agree on giving it such a high score. It's an incredible game. I did not expect it to be this good after feeling Kingmaker was lackluster in so many ways. I have even yet to complete it. WotR just knocked away 9/10 of those issues from the start.
Personally I feel Divinity Original Sin 2 are an overall better experience manily due to the co-op style and freedom to do whatever, but WotR are definetly up there with the big names. Owlcat have really outperformed themselves here and I'm looking forward to replay the game as an evil character and another one when the DLC arrives as an Azata, Aeon or Trickster. One of the best games I have played for sure (top 10 all time) and definetly top 3 as a CRPG.
It's not fair to compare with DOS, since DOS is far smaller in scale and complexity, not to mention that it recieved thousands of patches since then.
Is DOS2DE more polished and balanced, yeah.
Was it better in it's vanila state then WotR vanilla. No.
I still remember how DOS2 was empty in the last 2 maps back in Vanilla.
Hell, DOS1 was without voice acting for a year, not a single line of text was voice acted.
WotR can only get better and better as time goes by, thank God...
I think I randomly stumbled on your Twitch Live sometime ago when I first started the game. Man I had to repeat the game 3x before I got into the groove... Thanks for the content!! It helps!
Thanks for watching! :)
Best game I’ve ever played.
I love your passion man. i wish you many more great play throughs!
Thanks, more to come for sure :)
The replayabilty value for this game is amazing. I see myself playing this for hundreds more hours. Also learned a lot from your playtrough. Definitely apreciating more real time combat.
Once you get used to it, most of turn-based games will feel like a walk in a park.
@@Werglia since the game is so long, I think I rather suffer with real time than play turn based... unless I really cannot beat it. But is doable after retries. Doing a second run on Core difficulty never bother increasing the diff before, but in the end towards act4-5 some fights were just too easy.... When you become powerful enough you can facestomp, and my build was far from perfect.
@@MadGamer_666 Yeah, the only way to save some life time is with real-time. Raise the difficulty, always when you can, fights are way more fun like that.
Thanks for the review. I have not played it yet. But I trust your reviews so will definitely get in the future.
Make sure you play it! :)
Thanks.
3 more DLC Nice ! I yet to finish this game and just finished the Ivory Sanctum after trying to complete all side content as i progress, but already I rate it high amongst my favourate games, it has so much good stuff going on, already see I will likely do a secound playthrough to do it all differantly the RP options for story and mythic paths options... I will defiantly be watching more of your Guide vids after I complete it once. I will up the difficulty and need see how u done it, Iam doing it on normal atm and some fights are really difficult, sometimes tooth and nail, I have no idea how u managed to tackle it on hardest difficulty first time m8 that's insane XD. best RPG of its genre to this date
When dlc been published?
@@smoklares9791 no confirmed date as far as im aware
Finished a full playthrough of this game, but think I'll wait till all DLCs/ bug fixes are out before doing that again. The final version will be legendary for sure.
The original Wrath of the Righteous is already considered as the hardest Pathfinder campaign that exists, so the computer adaptation suits that well. And the original Pathfinder system is also a turn-based system, so it is good that they have a turn-based mode.
Loved this game with my first playthrough as a Kitsune Magus on the Azata path. Looking forward to doing a Lich once they add controller support (keyboard & mouse hurts my wrists). Pretty much agree with everything you said. Don't know if the game needs *full* voice acting for all the minor NPCs, but at least for all companion and major NPC dialog (Baphomet, Nocticula, Irabeth, Galfrey, etc.). I wonder which Adventure Path Owlcat will do next? Iron Gods or Rise of the Runelords, maybe?
First they will add dlc's, then it will take years to balance the game out. Next game is probalby in 2025.
Thank you for the review. I'll definitely buy it.
Thanks for watching! :)
Art, music, combat, companions, story, all of it is top notch RPG material. Amazing game.
Huge GG for playing through the game on the hardest difficulty.
It is amazing how fast they got this game released compared to some AAA studios.
Amazing is not the right word. They are Insane.
I mean, that's pretty easy to do if your game is like 10% finished.
Now THIS was a great and unbiased review!
Thanks! :)
As soon as you said Baldur's Gate was the greatest CRPG of all time, I knew I would agree with your review. It was an absolute masterpiece.
😆
Games like this come out once in 20 years. That's a sad stat.
Maybe it got mentioned and i forgot:
Riddles. Optional riddles everywhere. Some are extremely well hidden and even harder to understand
I just mentioned that there are puzzles in the game(and showcased one in the video), don't want to spoil anything at all.
.Thanks for this review. I'm almost 100 hours into the game. I'm only at the end of Act 2. That's what you want to do 2 runs at a time. I've created a Paladin Martyr and a Bloodrager Primalist and I'm trying to make different choices just to see the different branches that we can be offered. Hard to play a "bastard" for me in a C-RPG. I play Loyal Neutral or Loyal Good most of the time. I will certainly orient myself for the Angel or the Aeon in terms of mythical paths. I gave myself a little bit of the main story by watching a good part of your playthrough but that doesn't stop me from being eager to continue the adventure. See you later.
Yeah, this game will last for a lot of years, no doubt about it. No matter how much you play you just can't see everything there is.
@@Werglia : Indeed. And that's what makes its strength. I agree with your review. I will potentially be less accommodating on technical errors. The loading times are reasonable in terms of duration but they are too numerous. (We're a long way from Kingmaker in vanilla mode, I grant you). Fortunately, I haven't had any big bugs until then. However, the framerate is staggering. Especially during the action phases, I can drop to 20-30 frames per second. I feel like I'm not the only one in this case. What's fault ? Is casting spells consuming too much resources, would that be it? I hope for a "miracle" patch to correct this a bit. The future will tell. ;)
@@Werglia I mean, I've seen pretty much every dialogue option, and have 100% several runs, but you do you, boo.
I completed first playthrough on Core, pure Monk/Angel, half RT half turn-based, after 230 hours. Arcanist/Azata next.
I was playing the oryginal kingmaker right now but got a game breaking bug with saves - it's seriously best series ever. just like reading fantasy book connecting this to classical CRPG. Going to play DLC's now and i'll seriously wait for next part of the game, they'll get even more resources i quess, the differce between kingmaker and wotr is just too fking big for me :D it felt like the devs didn't knew what is the meaning of the word of "sleep". My playthrough felt even little to long for me, even longer than my education. Also it was fun to watch you on two levels of difficulty higher - i'll come back for sure
Thanks! Be patient with the game, it will take at least 2 years for it to be in a perfect state.
Finished the game a month ago. I must say this game is big improvement over Kingmaker. The one thing I hated were tile puzzles and the bugged Vavakia Vanguard fear effect.
I looked it up online and people say it's not a bug but in fact an "intentional" mechanic (Some kind of mythic dazzling display version available to outsiders only or whatever) and if that's the case it's just dumb design decision. It even makes undead (even lich character and skeleton champion) run away in fear and they supposed to be completely immune to exactly this. What's even the point of these so called immunities then.
@@TheFailureIsYours I did Vanguard on both Hard and Unfair and he never feared a single companion for me. You need team feats people, you need auras against fear. It's the only way. He feared other demons btw :) but not my team. Paladin is just a must for Vanguard encounter too.
As far as puzzles go... no comment there, never again, that's what I know...
@@Werglia I had seelah with me. She's supposed to be immuned to fear. Plus I cast spells for fear immunities on my whole team. It still didn't work.
That was over a month ago though.
The devs however work pretty fast. They release new patches quite often so maybe vavakia got fixed.
I'm currently replaying the game in 1.10 beta branch and they added some new contents storywise. I swear in 1.5-2 years this game will become a "must-have" for crpg fans.
Thank you so much for putting the pros and cons in the beginning of the video. I'll watch the rest of the vid when I have time but just really quick; one of the cons you listed is "unfinished" - is that still the case today? This game has been on my wishlist for a very long time now and I was aware that the final act is kinda rushed but is it really that bad that the game feels unfinished? I really want to pick this up now that it's been updated and $30 but I'm really afraid of being let down 1/2 into the game.
The game is in perfect state now! Enjoy it.
Fully agree, Owlcat quietly released a GOAT, let alone the GOTY for 2021.
You can increase the speed of moves in turn-based mode. At default speed I absolutely hated it's guts and was sure I will never use it. But after I discovered the speed slider for turned-based it became my favored feature of this game. At max speed it's very fast yet provides tremendous amount of control over your party's every action. I use it almost exclusively now.
I'm all for real-time and that will never change, but I'm glad there is max speed for turn-based cause I wanted to smack the screen on that 'only turn-based' encounter.
I will say there are some fights that are much harder on real time than turn based, and some that are the other way around, so you should probably be making use of both modes.
u da best my dude, keep em coming...
Thanks, will do! :)
Couldn't agree more. Absolute masterpiece and an era-defining game in the cRPG genre
YES!!! They should do FULL voice acting on this one!!!!
This is the Crpg where you want to challenge yourself into the Depths on Torture when it comes to Combat. And just as you said the Optimization Issues and Bugs are a Constant for Owlcat and it's very likely because of the decision to use Unity Engine. I saw a massive amount of stutter even in a 6950xt.
Epic review!
Thanks :)
WOTR made me restart Kingmaker, and I am still at Chapter 5 on WOTR, dont wanna finish (I literally get a pit on my stomach because of how close to the end I am, even feeling sentimental at the crusade map with the crusade soundtrack :'(! Wish it was 3 chapters longer! (thats considering already is 100+ hrs easily as it is) - or at least Act 5 the size of Act 3 and another full Act at Mythic 10. Oh how I wish .
They even did the goody-too-shoes and comically-evil paths with great and nuanced writing. Love it
thanks !
Did you stream the hard play through on youtube, would love to watch that run
I stream on twitch and release my walkthroughs on youtube. All content for the game is under the next links:
ua-cam.com/play/PLr6bLo7aWvnUjFwpw_MxSjBjORdL09mlQ.html - Utility Guides
ua-cam.com/users/Wergliaplaylists - All guides and builds so far
ua-cam.com/play/PLr6bLo7aWvnWMln3vKucn7llMRk9-G0eL.html - Walkthrough
ua-cam.com/play/PLr6bLo7aWvnW0GrkT5Qe20z6urSDmg5ut.html - All boss fights in the game on both Hard and Unfair difficulties (with in-game companions)
I couldn’t play the game because I don’t have a PC but the review is amazing and epic
Thanks :)
How about the only not 10/10 wich are potential builds for companions that i'd rate 3/10, this apart i totally agree with your review, this game blasted my mind hard.
Base builds of companions is why I call them 'Loons'.
They provide extra challenge to finish the game with them, instead of helping...
It's not a review, cause you can always mod them and reset their classes.
@@Werglia thanks for your answer. But modifying companions is like going against the rules of the devs imo haha. I can t do that 😀
@@vivi75mdr True, we just need to wait for devs to fix them, and they will for sure. Something has to be done cause 90% of companions are just made for core diff and below. They are very bad for Hard and Unfair.
Not to mention that this is one of those games where you are done but can come back 2 months/years later and do it all again and its practically as fun as it was before.
True!
I have to say that I was blindsided by this game. I bought it on sale to "try something new" since I was dropping ESO the same way I dropped WoW (permanently). Boy, was I blown away. My socks were knocked off and my teeth were rattled. Now I feel guilty for paying only $30 for it on GOG. I'm on my first playthru and just started Drezen. My last save says 6d 7h 32m, I think my first complete playthru might take 300+ hours easily and I'm already thinking of what I want to play on my 2nd and 3rd and 4th playthrus haha. This game has grabbed me by the short and curlys and I don't think it's going to let go anytime soon. If you like your intellect challenged and enjoy playing fantasy D&D type games you cannot afford to miss this one. It's intimidating at first but that's when you gotta dust off that "big brain" and slay the complexity dragon towering over you! Just buy it if you haven't, it's the best video game money you'll spend. Guaranteed!
Now THIS is video game journalism.
Thanks!
an excellent review for an excellent game
Thanks! :)
I'm glad the game is good. I still have to play the first one. :D
Make sure you do that before WotR.
@@Werglia Yes. By the time i have finished Kingmaker, they have fixed the issues with Path of the Righteous. :D
personally i use mixed turn base + real time on unfair , on my first play throu i used real time on core ...
Pet finder? Nice. Is it like a GPS collar?
You will need to find another owner, I don't adopt anymore, sry :(
I still havent finished the game and Im at the 150 hr mark. Its a great game, and I definitively want to play once Im finished in other mythic paths to see the differences. Also, for me, HARDEST game Ive ever played period. I tried playing in unfair and I was only able to reach up to drezen in unfair until I got tilted I chose to remain in hard. INSANELY difficult to battle every single fight in unfair difficulty.
Man, unfair was balanced and nerfed compared to vanila version. It was even harder when I started :)))
All in all, the game for all times is here, we can't complain.
Agreed 10/10
I'm close to Drezen, I haven't read a single line of text and I just spam end/space in cinematic/voice overs.
I have limited time to play; plus I'm playing it on unfair.
Is it too late to get in the story, is it worth it ?
Story is worth it. Beside immersion, there are some major throwback to you decisions and crusade managment (after drezen especially). Even the scrambled notes you find on the dungeons are worth reading. And some conversations and choics really easy an upcoming battle especially on Hard/Unfair where even a slightest advantage is worth having. And as endnote the game is CRPG not a AAA hack a slash, story makes at least half of it :=D
@@tengizoniani5029 Do you recommend that I read everything or just the main plot stuff ?
@@MosCraciun777 You should always read it all for the first run at least when playing cRPG's. There are so many great books and conversations in the game, it's a shame you missed it.
@@Werglia I'm on my SS Trickster run, should I start reading now(I am at the lost chapel) Or wait till my lich run and read from the start ?
I have over 100 hours in, and did just retake drezen. I then found out that i missed the Azata mythic Path unlock, so i think im going back To an older save File To fix that. And im ok with it, this game is so good its worth it. Im going to take my time
Don't roll back, just play. You will have more then 1 run for sure in the future.
I'm confused you didnt mention the lack of exploration and the very bad loot and itemization in the review. KM is definatly doing those parts way way better.
My take would be after having also spent over 400h in the game like this:
1. Story = 6/10 (Too cliche, save the world and rid the world off demons, yaaawwwwn)
2. Bugs = 8/10 Encountered some thru may playthru but nothing too serious tbh.
3. Game Time = 7/10 A bit too long for my taste especially after fighting the same enemies over and over
4. Difficulty = 10/10 Choose the way you wanna play
5. Maps-Graphics = 8/10 Dungeons look great but unfortunatley not too many in the game. The game lacks exploration on the global map compared to KM.
6. Gameplay = 9/10 Feels good. Crusade mechanics are boring and a waste of dev resource imho. Game could do totally without it.
7. Leveling & Itemization = 7/10 Leveling feels great and rewarding but the itemization is probably one of the worst i've seen in an crpg tbh. Not one single alchemy item? not one single bracers of archery or greater braces of archery? the lack of boots, the lack of gloves etc etc.
8. NPCs - Enemies = 7/10 Main villian feels kinda strange. Companions lack motivation why they joined you. Some NPCs and their stories/quest were OK but nothing groundbreaking.
9. Sound-Music = 9/10 Very good.
Conclusion? I'd rate this game 7/10. Right now I'd argue KM is the better game overall.
Lack of exploration? The map is HUGE. And what do you mean when you talk about "bad loot"?
I think it was better than KM in this aspect, why is there bad itemization and little exploration?
@@mirtexxan Most areas are quest triggered. You hardly enounter random maps you can explore on the global map. 50% of those are ingredients for cooking. feels unrewarding and makes exploration on the global map less rewarding. Kingmaker had at least triple the areas you could explore on the map.
@@blkwng Items feel underwhelming. Best items (+5 ones) you will find in the end of act5 when you are already godlike powerful. you should get those items end of act3/start act4. some of the most powerful items you can buy from the vendors. those should not be at vendors but rewards for exploration/quests/hidden treasure/hard fights. Kingmaker did this party way way better. Perception skill seems useless because most of the hiddean treasure you find contain cookin ingredients. are we playing a cookin sim or a high fantasy crpg? Kingmaker did this part also better.
@@Menthur Ahhh I think I get what you said with the hidden items being cooking ingredients lol. Yeah I remember that. I see the perception check high succeed and Im like hell yeah then I loot and I get a fish lol. I was pretty happy with my items but I get what you mean, still, maybe its because of my class, I also hated KM itemization personally, but yeah, laughed at the cooking simulator thing lol
I disagree about the turn based being is messed, i think its exceptionally crafted and since you can turn it on and off on the fly, its a win-win situation! I agree 200% about the voice over, i think the game should be fully voice, this along with some minor details(portraits for all npc) will really elevate the game
Agreed. I wouldn't even have bought the game if it didn't have turn based
Just try to learn the game in real-time and switch to turn-based after 100h+. It will feel like riding a donkey after a stallion.
please compare to Divinity Original Sin 2 , and maybe also to Pillars of eternity 2.
also, I year passed since your review, and looks like it would be never fully voiced... :( , like DOS2 , BG3
Played over 150 buggy hours just to hit gamebreaking impassable bugs, every patch just adds new bugs and does not fix old ones. do not pay to beta test this. wait for the inevitable 'enhanced edition' in a year and then wait 6 months for them to fix it. Then it will be a good game.
I had only one bug in 370h long run(and it got fixed 2 days after it happened). Performance is the bigger problem right now.
@@Werglia oh lucky you, you must be the only player for whom the following worked/did not occur: *takes deep breath*
charge skill stopping short at invisible walls, confuse spells crash the game, azata path basically unplayable, lich path totaly broken, sosiel character quest broken, chapter 5 romance scene broken, camera following broken, teleporting demons in crusade, quests not activating, npcs missing, items missing, skills with no effect or description, characters re-writing themselves, game freezes, mounted combat not working, enemies being immune to effects like prone that they should not be, items not doing what the description says, items with missing descriptions, feats not doing what the description says/description missing, entire class/mythic paths being totally unable to progress past certain points in the game, enemies with the wrong sprite, enemies with visually bugged sprites. BIG ETC...
Either you are very lucky or you are just tricking people into beta testing this for full price.
@@verdibyrd First of all, I payed 100$ for the game(never recieved it for free).
If you think I'm tricking people, then you should check the channel home page(for sure you will change your mind in the matter of minutes).
I uploaded my entire walkthrough, 370h for WotR, and it was 99% bugfree for me.
I'm aware of people having different problems in the game, but my experience was smooth(aside from performance issues in act4/5).
I played as an ANGEL/LEGEND = zero bugs.
The only thing I can agree is some of the spells and feats missing descriptions.
I was mentaly prepared to see at least 10000 bugs from my kingmaker fobia in vanilla, but there was only 1. IN 370H long run. There is no bigger and longer game on the market in the history of gaming. OFC it will have bugs. It will be fixed.
I was talking with devs during kingmaker every day, I had corrupted saves, 15 min loading screens, and all of that is also uploaded on this channel.
With WotR it was opposite, complete opposite.
Last and most important thing i can add...
I always, always release my reviews after finishing games on hardest difficulty available and always protect consumer side.
I felt like inventory management could use some loving. Search function would be so nice. I'm pretty sure few of my hairs turned white from frustration looking for Heal scroll among the sea of scrolls. Also act 5 is not done. I had 5 million gold with nothing to spend it on by the end of my journey and also I reached level 20 shortly after retaking of Drezen in Act 5 (beginning of the act). Experience and gold became pointless and that is not a good feeling. Great game nonetheless. 369 hours played reading every piece of text, provoking every fight available, and crying at my own stupidity while solving Arushkagal's puzzles.
Look like a huge step up from Kingmaker. A few complains I had were the repetitive of map, few monster types(you get the same shit but higher level) and lack of interesting combat encounters. Yes it sinks a lot of time but just low quality.
Demons, demons, demons... As I said in the video, Doom Slayer's favourite game of all time is WotR.
I liked it, can't complain much to be honest.
I've spent literally 40 hours creating a character, trying out things, then deleting a char. Now I'm playing 2h finesse flamewarden elf, which is actually super bad lol. This game has so much depth in terms of builds and combos, I wish it was like so for all modern AAA action RPGs.
Difficulty is a bit unbalanced imo (playing on core). 2 hour fight sometimes ends because main character got hit by a -77hp crit and instantly died.
You should see how fast it can end on Unfair then :)
'Enimosi Travisi Owlcat, buff up well with good hope for the next title and please stick with this franchise only. P.S. Do not use haste please.''
- Werglia quote, Oct 24th 2021
i have 240H, one complete waltrough and the second im at the half of Ch3
Ok i have to point out there are few re-used maps in this game. BUT since it is almost impossible to make a cRPG this long without re-using small areas i don't think it matters at all.
I only seen one in the entire run, you sure there were more?
@@Werglia yeah there were few. Mostly on abyss ones. On the top of my head i can say Pluras Fall entrance map was reused on something else i can clearly remember that. But it doesnt really matter because it is almost impossible to not re use maps and assets.
Also when i say abyss i mean the ones that are close to worldwound corrupted by the abyss. I don't think i have seen reused maps in the abyss itself.
@@tuh774 That's why I asked :)
The only map I know of is Pulura's Fall.
I will for sure look out for new ones in my second run.
They need to fix turn based mode it freezes up in that mode and like playing that way,hopefully they finanaly fix it someday
Revisit the game in 2 years :)
@@Werglia can’t wait 2 years,I,ll finish the game somehow before then
Is it worth it to play Kingmaker 1st before WotR?
Yeah! It is.
@@WergliaWhat’s your opinion on Pillars of Eternity?
I will play this gem when finished version comes.. goty edition or enchanded edition etc..
Smart move.
The only thing that seriously annoyed me at this game is the backtracking at hell with the moving floors (i had low frames there to and didnt help) . And an optional puzzle dungeon for a companion quest. But aside those this game was made by gods
Nenio's quest is pain on your next run. True
Act 4 is still suffering with huge frame drops and it will remain like that forever.
Im just dissapointed i aint cant kill more stuff when u finally reach legend.
amazing game but still lacks voice acting. I get exhausted reading so much on a screen.
I disgree with you only with one point : the lack of voice acting. I really don’t care, it costs a lot for just a decent acting... I prefer developpers to focus on the pen and paper way, with a aproper writting dialog. I ate the bg3 dialog with pov and counter pov dialog, it takes so much unusefull time, and it’s horrible to see. I enjoy pathfinder, so much deep game!
Would just love to see every line of text voice acted, cause when it's there, this game is straight amazing.
have played a angel & demon playthrough so far.. this game is killing my social life
Welcome to the club :)
@@Werglia up next, the arthas playthough
Is it better then kingmaker?
10x times better.
You cannot really compare Baldur's Gate to Wrath of the Righteous. BG3 uses the 5e rule set and an original story. WotR uses 3.5 OGL rules and an existing Pathfinder campaign.
They are both isometric cRPG's, so ofc we can compare. 99% of players don't understand the rules at all, believe it or not.
@@Werglia Why are there two different Oscars for best original and best adapted screenplays? Both are screenplays, so you can compare and one should suffice...
Of course not. Making a complete new story from scratch takes different efforts than adapting something that already exists. And BG3 focusses a lot more character models, while WotR uses still pictures and standard models. Isometric is neither of the games, btw.
On the other hand, Owlcat had to cope with a far more complex rule set than Larian and a bigger decision tree.
@@Nikioko I can't speak about Oscars or Holywood cause I hate brainwashing and false truths. I didn't watch a single movie since 2000's.
Isometric is the first term how both Larian and Owlcat describe their products.
Isometric cRPG's to be more precise.
Ofc I can compare cRPG's, and those 2 games are 90% the same if we exclude rules and complexity.
BG3 is more user friendly only.
This is the wrong video for this topic, I said everything I think about on this one.
ua-cam.com/video/7eYjXDW1OQ8/v-deo.html
Game has huge potential but it's so buggy and unpolished that it's a shame.
You can't expect this CRPG to be fully voice acted, there's way too many lines. Maybe possible for all companions but that's it.CRPG
It's not what I expect, it's what it needs to be the best game ever created(not to mention that more new players will roll in to WotR if it's voice covered).
My 3 main complaints:
-Glitches in combat: Charging in TB is only the most famous one.
- Mechanics; Partly poorly implemented, partly missing, To significant degrees. - Combat balance: (Too) heavy focus on touch attacks.
-Act 5 falls kind of off, and the overall pacing (gear/ money / crusade / mythics) could be better: Act IV, you starve for cash, Act V you earn 5 millions in 2 maps, without any stuff to buy.
The game is "over" before most of the crusade stuff (Act V) would even get online. Or, you may probably skip a full year for the secret ending.
Artistic direction, music, content, et al, are all an obvious 10/10, though.
How do you starve for cash for act IV? you can find tens of thousands of gold pieces in a single fight
@@joaoteixeira8349 Act IV is the act with all the strongest shop items; you will need multiple million (2-4) to cover your basics. And: Those fights are limited, while the game also demands you to spend about half a million, just for story purposes.
Act V: Nenio`s quest area/Deskari/ Prison are all good for 2-3 million in pure vendor trash, with exactly nothing worth to buy for it. (Act IV is limited offer; town vendors do not upgrade. )
- As about everything in Act V, it feels like rushed content.
- This game is a disaster in turn-based mode.
- They will fix most of descriptions and spells for sure, touch attacks are weak compared to melee on Unfair.
- I know I bought every single Items in act4 and started act5 with at least 100k.
- Itemisation is indeed the thing they need to work on, act 5 is unfinished.
- The game was over for me after 370h, more then enough since it's the longest and biggest game ever created.
Buttfinder Wrath of the Righteous.🤔 no reused maps at all? Ehh.....
The only reused map I know about, is Pulura's Fall and it happened once only. Do you know names of other maps perhaps?
Compaired to dos2 or bg3 this game is so expansive its not even funny.
Expansive??
I believe he wanted to say 'expanisve' (as bigger and larger) not 'expensive' (as in terms of money, I gave 100$ for it).
My point of view here, I might be wrong.
600 hrs😵😵😵
It will go far above 2000h in the next few years.
i wanted to love it but i dont like d&d
You missed one of the best games ever created. It's never late.
The HoMM system should be removed. It's utter trash. You cannot even use 95% of the awesome units they made because they cannot be reinforced. It's such a poorly made system. The rest of the game is a diamond in the rough tho.
Not removed, it needs patching and fixing only(a lot of it).
And all that for only 40 bucks
It costed me 100$ on pre-order with all dlc's, but comparing to how much time it will give in return it's worth every penny.
King shit only
Eh. I'd rather they didn't waste money on voice acting.
Voice acting is what brings immersion and it's a must(in every game).
@@Werglia Except when the voices and accents, let alone the acting, is terrible. I'd rather read.
I'm struggling whether to spend the money to buy this game and this review doesn't help. It's just talking about the game but the footage you're showing doesn't have anything to do with what you're talking about at the time.
Talking is far more important then the gameplay showcase(for that you have around 500 videos for WotR on the channel). You are the only one with complainments in the entire comment section btw...
Yes, the game is worth every penny, but play Pathfinder Kingmaker first.
the game is horribly bugged and is actually getting worse every patch, you absolutely should not buy it at the moment.
Gave this game a go over the weekend, what exactly is it that makes people love this game? it cant be the combat... surely... the story seems great but im not sure i can endure the tedious inventory management/1 billion useless spells/MEH combat? i must be missing something it just aint clicking with me, I just finished the market square area on core difficulty. i've found probably 3 interesting items in 10+ hours of gameplay, and my 2 handed fighter is still just running up to enemies and auto attacking, (can i have a skill to use?) most fights i try to be tactical then just regress to right clicking on each enemy with my whole party selected. use a few scrolls and potions for the harder fights... games just too much of a slow burn for me, don't have time to read 9000 lines of text every time i encounter a new important npc.
Divinity 2 is still the goat of CRPGS
It's the game for specific tastes.
''it cant be the combat... surely...'' - It's THE COMBAT, the best, most complex and hardest ever done in isometric view. Tick Unfair difficulty and see how tactical it gets.
It's crazy with amount of options it gives.
DOS2 is an cRPG for casual playing, WOTR is hardcore. I love them both.
@@Werglia Ok i gave it another shot and im completely addicted now :P, thanks for your guides mate! love your work ever since the divinity guides.
I really like the Game, but I hate the Mechanics.
It is awful to get into it and Build good Characters (I have the habit to play Custom Parties and that won't change with this one).
The Descriptions are utter Garbage and leave you wondering what they thought when writing them.
You have to read the whole Description and hope that they did not forget to mention the Attack Type somewhere.
It cant be too hard to put "Touch Attack" "Ranged Touch Attack"... somewhere up top in the Description, or put a Symbol on the Icon ffs.
You don't know (at least as a Noob) which Feats will affect your Spells, Cantrips, Blasts, Bombs, other AoE... Tower Shields (are they Big Shields???) in what ways.
Combat Maneuvers... a giant Mystery!
When you choose your Weapons you are greeted by blank Text leaving you Clueless about Crit chances, Finesse, Martial Weapons (which shows 6 or 7 but actually has much more AND you can't even buy the shown Weapons at least up to Drezen if not longer)...
There is no Tree Structure to the Feat with Requirements. Just a List to do Guesses on which do unlock which ^^
You have to scroll through the 200 Feats to figure out what Attributes you need to get them later on.
The whole respeccing is botched by having to do all the Level ups at one time without saving, and so leaving huge possibilities for Mistakes aka doing the whole process again.
Picked the wrong Deity and be locked out of a Multi-Class later on... respec.
Respec only one or two Levels? Bad luck! Do them all over again.
Respec only your spellbook? Nope!
No "Quality of Life" Features like pressing Ctrl to queue Spells. The Forums are full of People being pissed by the Buff Orgies and wanting Auto Buff.
No Indicator on the Icons for Standard, Swift or Free Actions. And no HUD over the Character that shows the next selected Swift/Free Action and its Cooldown.
Inspecting your Enemies is a bloated big Text with giant spaces and with Buffs/deBuffs only shown after scrolling down.
When Multi Classing you get an Icon Salad of Duplicates. And that's so very awful because they did not even include a Calculator that updates the Spell Description with your actual Dice/Damage. It would be very nice to have that even without Multiclassing... ok... I have 2d6 standard and get + 1d6 every Second Level and I am Level 12... that's 8 or maybe only 7d6 or is it 9d6? And often this Madness shifts to 1d6 and next Level 1d8 and then 2d6 into 2d8... MADNESS
I leave it here and say that I want to like it, and in 6 Month - 2 Years I might change my mind,
but for now, I could not recommend this Game for anything else than a Casual run on normal Difficulty with the standard Companions.
Your points are all valid and true considering all of my boss fights on unfair are the only videos on the entire internet(at tthis moment at least, me for companions, Victor Creed for Solo).
That also proves that it's doable even without so many descriptions, for mechanics and tactics you can always ask me for advice.
For numbers, descriptions and min/max, Victor Creed is doing wonders there, so ask him to explain you what CM is for example.
This is the most complex game for a reason, not a single tutorial will help you or a lot of other people out, the only help you can get is from the people that test every build and mechanic in the game, and we are so few that we can't even find time to share mechanics beetween us.
I tested a lot of builds for companions and did most of those fights on unfair in this unfinished version of the game and that for me is the achievement on it's own.
The only way for you to learn is to watch walkthroughs, in detail, and that takes a lot of time.
@@Werglia Asking People is no real solution, and it should not be necessary anyway. The Game has to give me the Information at the time I need it.
When I am respeccing a Character, there is no one that will answer my Questions in a few Minutes. So I would have to cancel the Respec, leave the Game where it is, and return the next Day to do it all again, just to find the next Problem shortly after.
I mean, when I scroll through Classes and Skills and Feats, I notice insufficient Information all the time.
Your Videos and others have been helpful but as you too noticed, there are not many that do Pathfinder Content. And the ones I found seem to be working full time and doing these Builds on the side, great builds non the less :)
After all, we all are time-constrained and I am on the more Luxurious side of time availability. I can't imagine how normal People could get into this.
And maybe that explains why KingMaker sold 1 Million Copies and WotR only 250k.
Well, the sales might increase over time but if the 1Mil would have been grabbed by KingMaker, they would have come back for more. And I guess there are many who tried WotR now, who skipped KingMaker altogether because of Reports of the Buggy launch.
I like the Game but Hell is it torture to play :P
@@fr0zen1isshadowbanned99 I get your points, its what holds me back too. I mean I got no problem checking all those missing information but i simply dont have time to do a 400h game like this :D Thats the sweet spot between making a game complex, but not complicated
@@tr4nsist0r92 The Problem is not only having the Will to go look for Information but to find the information you're looking for. There is not much out there, that I can tell you :P
UA-cam; be ready to watch 3 Videos about the Class you need special Information for until you find it.
Fextralife and others; Still very incomplete and not very specific anyway. Mostly Screenshots which will not help you in any way ^^
And then there are the Pathfinder Pen and Paper Sites which look like a 1995 Web Page and are gigantic and in no way bound to the Video Game.
Don’t skip leg day.
It was one of the most boring game ever. Map design was also the worst with Abyss and Drezen bring ridiculously and unnecessarily huge and annoying.
There are people that are saying how Chicago Bulls from 1996 was not the best team ever, there were some saying it back then and there are some even saying it now...
That doesn't change the fact that they were the best ever.
@@Werglia Chicogo Bulls was the best team ever, and Pathfinder was the worst game ever.
@@JoonKimDMD You are just straight hating the best game ever created then... Was it too hard for you? What's the problem?
@@Werglia Horrible UI, bad FPS and optimization especially in Abyss, bad and long dialogues, so many loadings, so many unnecessary rests...etc.
@@JoonKimDMD I rested about a hundred times in total for Unfair. UI is straight amazing. FPS was fine for me, and I was streaming and playing the game on ultra settings. Loading screens were extremely fast. Dialogues were amazing from start to finish and for sure never boring(you need to read them all, try aloud maybe).
Or, we played different games...