| played through the first three or four hours of the game and I barely managed to get out of town. the cut scenes are pretty time consuming and wandering around looking into corners is taking huge amounts of my time. I spent almost twenty minutes just trying to figure out how to flirt and make chicks dig me. of course, since I kept hitting the fart instead of the flirt, it did not work well. I really cannot see that the game would only be about twenty hours unless there is nothing in it to do. just from the four or five quests i was presented at the beginning, i would say there is over 20 hours of gameplay. i am intentionally staying away from any kind of strategy guides and walkthroughs so I am wandering around pretty dumb. I was excited just to go to the first town and be refered to as a "chicken chase." I was thoroughly thrilled when I had gained enough renown or experience or whatever to do the manly hand pump.
i will say that I am not a huge fan of the attack system and I can just not aim the magic very well--maybe the next play through when I get better. for now, I am enjoying the system and seeing what happens when you break the rules. I do NOT like what happens of you fail a quest and I am happy with the saving system. if I can slaughter town guards, I should be able to fail quests and just deal with the circumstances.
so far, anyway, i would say that the game is pretty amusing and a nice addition to my xbox games.  |