Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor

It's touching, nuanced, and mechanically innovative in a good way. The difficulty settings are good and allow you the experience you want - easy is easy and torment is hard. the progression is designed to be very flexible and considered. it's funny and serious and balances them well. core and even many ancillary characters are deep and their actions and loyalties are unexpected. It's not a shallow power fantasy, your role and your actions are deeply constrained by necessity even as you are given great power and responsibility. It has very heartfelt, genuine things to say about power, legacy, obligation, the roles we are built for and find ourselves in, the limits of good intentions. It ends well, and never perfectly. There is real and not directly spoken-of doubt about any of your choices. You are troubled by coercion, power, legacy, and more, not melodramatically but in the deeper, banal way that people are. The series epilogue is what it should be, a familiar but meaningfully different experience from the main game that doesn't go on too long and ends it well. I felt things that will stick with me. I'm sad the series wasn't able to be completed in its original vision as a trilogy. I hope Jeff Vogel makes a game just for himself.

Queen's Wish 2 t is a good improvement on the original. The Rokaj feels like a very distinct place and the Ro customs are well realized. Also large praise for the map, I don't know why but a lot of Spiderweb game maps felt kinda gimmicky. In Queen's Wish 1 for example all the different regions were distinct peninsulas that felt odd to me. While the Rokaj still divides things like wood region/desert region/ winter region for a narrative and gameplay reasons it felt far more real than the previous vassal of Queen's Wish 1. Combat is standard Spiderweb fare. I actually turned the difficulty down to easy as I found the status effect laden combat made even normal incredibly tedious. Crafting and fort building has also been more fleshed out but oddly enough despite having a thorough playthrough I was fairly cash strapped and couldn't afford fully upgrading my gear! The thing that really makes the game special is the personal dynamics between your siblings and your mother the Queen. It makes me excited to see where the story goes for Queen's Wish 3! Overall, it's a solid retro rpg and a good sequel to the original. Vogel you damn genius you've done it again!

I just finished Part 3. Amazing game, wonderful story. This series was a lot less intense than Avernum series. But it was fun! I love it. Great story, wonderful characters. I hated Sutter at first, but in part 3, he was humbled and I like that. Delia was just great! The Queen was very competent and wonderful. Although I was not a very good child of hers, she was wonderful, I was sad when she crossed over like that. I wanted to flog the doctor for his incompetence. I really wanted The Queen Sharyn III to stay alive so someday in the future in some cross world thing, she could marry Red Beard of Black Fortress and have beautiful babies. A more competent me. I like how in the end she was okay of me being Queen/King. I really expected she would not since I was rotten. Sutter was mad, but Delia was just fine. I love the different endings. Tip, during Part two, the first part. Remember to give your main character the good items because starting part 3. She/He will just to go through part 3 with what she has on her. Fantastic story, fun game, I highly recommend it.

I only opened the game once. Still beat it tho. 9/10

Honestly, there's no series that captures the feeling of being an incredibly thoughtless royal of a colonial empire. Really hoping for a third one.

Gives you many options of how to play and lets you change your mind throughout the game.

https://youtu.be/8tztID6rEnI Dated visuals will be a clear delimitator for a lot of players checking this game out, getting past that hurdle will provide a rewarding and deep experience.