Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

I will start by saying that i dropped this one around the 12 hours mark, which is usually a very odd thing for me. Either i drop games off in the first 2, or i end up completing them even if im not having a great time. But Kingdoms of Amalur is the odd RPG that is competent on a surface level, but is so damn lenghty that its flaws get more and more noticeable the more hours you sink into it.

This game definitly feels like it came out of that era of "press A for Awesome". If offers a very simple and action focused combat system, similar to the action that God of War was offering at the time, except way more limited with the options you are given. Likewise, there are a lot of enemies in the game, but their AI is rather poor, and the ways you can interact with them are also quite limited,

On the story side of things, i found it rather generic fantasy, with shallow characters and extremely simplistic quest design. It really feels like you are playing a single player experience in an abandoned MMO, with NPCs having very little interactions, and quests being variations of fetch quests with very little choices. There is the ability to kill friendly NPCs, and the town will turn hostile on you, but there really is no incentive to do so as you lose more than you gain.

Visuals are decent for PS3 era, and the artists go a long way into making all the different areas and dungeons feel unique.

Overall i cant consider it better than a mediocre RPG. The forgotten gem was nowhere to be found from what i played.