Solasta II

TLDR: For Early Access this is decent. Already massively better than the first game in every way. Keep in mind that I'm comparing this to the first game, not on its own in a vaccum. - Ben Starr and Devora Wilde's characters are interesting, despite the latter looking like Millie Bobby Brown in Season 5 of Stranger Things. - More optimised than the demo (I ran it on Ultra) up until a certain point where the performance seems to tank massively and inconsistently. - In addition to your squad of four, it seems like Solasta 2 has more frequently-usable NPC companions. Helps pad out your team and adds very useful DPR. - Game now has actual cutscenes which makes it leaps and bounds better than the first one. - Faces are not perfect, but they're not melted-clay with lego hairs and are actually quite good. CC is not the Sims but surprisingly more customisable than Baldur's Gate 3. - Great implementation of 2024 rules. A few of my other complaints apart from performance are that there are a lot of class features that are unimplemented i.e. Rogue bonus action hide and a few encounters are hilariously overtuned. There's a specific fight that comes to mind which is the last fight of EA. In my playtime, it was near-unplayable and almost softlocked me. My game either bugged out and couldn't use the last long rest camp of the act or that last camp was designed to be unusable. Either way, after leaving the last dungeon it places you in front of a bafflingly hard encounter after taking away your npc companions. Thankfully I rolled well and finished it, but I would say it's something to look into for the devs.

I couldn't get past that awful character creator. Refunded.

这游戏目前可能就做了不到40%，而且严格执行政治正确。人物模型一言难尽，游戏里的精灵面容，放到其他世界观，说是鬼婆都有人信

Zur Zeit nicht zu empfehlen. Das ist kein Early Access, das ist eine sehr kurze Demo

Not only is this a skeleton of a game, it's a buggy mess. I have not experienced crashes like others have on my system, but the performance is very poor and I had instances where I could not complete a fight even when loading an older save. The same creature would just freeze and not do its turn. I understand that this is an early access, but the devs have just done an incredibly sloppy job with everything in this game. It just seems too rushed and it had no business being made available in this poor state. Hopefully, they will be able to salvage this mess, but even if they do, it will for sure take a long time. I recommend holding off on your purchase.

I was really getting into it when I finished this early access, so I'm looking forward to the full game. It feels very promising. The character models still look a bit off, but that's understandable for an ea release. The gameplay and mechanics are already a lot of fun. The story also shows potential, but, since they've grown up together, I expected their bond to feel stronger from the start. In the Early Access build, their interactions sometimes felt a bit detached. That may well develop later in the story, but at this stage I hadn't quite bought into them as a close-knit family yet.

Really want to show my love for this game because I enjoyed the first one... But there's so much that needs improvement that I can't immediately campaign for it. The other comments detailing mechanics, graphics, and story are pretty accurate, so if you buy it now, take it with cautious optimism that it's going to get even better.