Torment: Tides of Numenera

After 22 hours of esoteric nonsense, I just couldn't take it anymore. There is way way way too much dialogue and lore thrown at you. The main storyline gets sidetracked by way too many random and obscure side stories and characters that it just makes it difficult to track anything. I ended up following a guide and ignoring most of the walls of text just to realize that I was just playing the game as an attempt to just "get through it". When a game becomes a chore and a bore there is just no reason to continue so I stopped. It is just too bad as the game has a lot of potential but it just gets too bogged down and gets in the way of itself. Some people complained about the combat but I found it to be okay. The problem comes around when you want to "heal up" your party. While resting does heal your party it has big negatives to the game as time continues on and quests can fail due to this passage of time. The game punishes you for taking a rest. To me, this is the worst aspect of the game mechanics. I never did quite understand the raising of "color" stats as that is most likely an end game outcome but I will never get that far due to, well, just not caring anymore. I also used AI …

Thought this would be Planescape: Torment 2 It wans't Meh

A lot of people hate on this game, but I have to say I enjoyed it a lot. Yes, it's not Planescape: Torment 2, but I still found the story interesting as well as characters you meet (although a lot/most of them are kind of shallow). And what I especially liked is the world, which is such a novel and full of unseen and crazy stuff. This novelty and crazyness was what kept me playing even when there were some not-so-exciting parts of the game gameplay wise. Would I recommend it to everyone? No. Would I recommend it to general party based RPG fans? Yes. Would I recommend it to bookworms? Hell yeah. Would I recommend it to hardcore Planescape Torment fans? Still yes, but don't expect direct sequel and take it as a "game inspired by our beloved".

They say it's a "thematic successor" to Planescape: Torment, but the similarities are merely cosmetic. Narratively, this is to Planescape: Torment what Esoteric Ebb is to Disco Elysium. Planescape carried real weight: its themes of regret, identity and mortality were woven into every character and every conversation, so the philosophy felt lived rather than recited. Tides of Numenera mostly gestures at big ideas without the rigour or conviction to follow them anywhere, and its musings on legacy and meaning rarely rise above what you'd find in a well-read fantasy novel. Where Planescape pulled you forward because you needed to know who you were and what you had done, Numenera's story unfolds at a polite distance, full of imaginative set dressing but short on stakes that feel personal. You finish it having seen a lot of strange things, but without having been changed by any of them.

7/10

My characters feel extremely weak, the add on characters feel like they are just tag alongs and not involve in the story, overall boring.