I put off playing it for years, but finally got around to it a year ago. On a half-dozen levels, it was a refreshing take on the medieval RPG and one of most interestin𝕴g aꦍnd original rpgs I've played in over a decade.

I agree wit🧸h most of your thoughts, particularly with regard to lackluster (and often wholly unnecessary) remakes, particularly when it's just a graphical overhaul of a game less than a decade old.

And fort money, to another point of yours, I think that a strong argument could be made that no RPG has been (proportionally) as innovative as 1993s all-around masterpiece Betrayal at Krondor (those who know, know, and it's criminally underappreciated and unknown to the masses). If you like rpgs, and an 🍸emphasis on plot, dialogue and setting🔯 (as well as musical score) it's imo the all-time RPG GOAT.

You, ju൲st like the author, are entitled to your opinion. Personally, games where there is no challenge are completely sull and unfulfilling to me. As the author says, a balance is generally desirable (it's usually not fun to have impossibly hard enemies, just as being pseudo-invincible is a tried and true way to lose interest very, very quickly in a game, particularly and endlessly long game with repetitive combat like AC). I suspect your opinion, at least according to all of gaming history, is in the extreme minority. Glad you can enjoy this game though.

Being comically OP in gamಞes ruins the fun for A LOT of people, fast. So I see the author's point, and agree. But I've always found the combat in AC to be boring and unfulfilling, so I'm not surprised. At least there's another character for (marginally) more balanced combat and stealth.

Fair enough, although adding non-historical options is fine in a videogame (or movie, e.g., Braveheart). It's an option. It's a video game. Unless they made it completely linear, to the point of being a film (and even then...), it wouldn't🍌 be canon nor resemble the actual history of these peoples at all. Honestly, it's funny, harmless, and to🔯tally worth seeing snowflakes get triggered over.