Salvatore, and that’s something the NPCs throughout the world are all too happy to give you a lesson on. There are thousands of years of history to read into, developed by popular fantasy author R.A. If you enjoy diving into the lore of a game’s world, there’s plenty to love in Kingdoms of Amalur. If you visited every settlement, dealt with every faction, and accepted every challenge that came your way, you’d likely be looking at well over 100 hours before you cleared everything. It took me more than 40 hours to reach the end credits – the main story chunk of which was mostly satisfying, despite a few tired cliches and a lot of eleventh-hour exposition – and I definitely wasn’t stopping to smell the roses after the first ten or so hours. Even before you get into the two DLC expansions that are included in Re-Reckoning, there’s an impressive amount of side quests, faction stories, and ancillary adventures. So many parts of what originally made Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning special in its time now feel mundane, or – at worst – heinously outdated today.Īmalur’s main story doesn’t feature the branching paths of, say, Mass Effect 2 or The Witcher 3, but what it lacks in the flexibility of its stories, Amalur makes up for in sheer volume of things to do. Fully-voiced NPCs throughout the world that don’t all sound like one or two people doing the same voice for all of them? …Okay, I still appreciate that one in 2020 – though you can definitely tell when you run into a Matt Mercer-voiced character now.
Being able to re-spec your abilities to try different playstyles whenever you like? Inspired! … for its time. A western RPG with satisfying action combat? Amazing! … for its time. Score: 9 A lot of what our reviewer said then holds true in the 2020 remaster – but nearly every one of those items has an asterisk next to it, all leading to the same footnote: for its time. But no matter what you're looking for, whether it be amazing gameplay, immersive storytelling or perhaps a riveting new world to explore as you fully customize and re-customize your character at will, Reckoning has it all. Its random technical hiccups and inconsistent art style certainly hold it back from even higher levels of greatness. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Review Verdict By Colin Moriarty, February 3, 2012Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning keeps pace with the greats of the genre, while easily outclassing all of them in what matters most: gameplay… Reckoning isn't the perfect game.
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