That’s okay, though. I will be fine playing it a bit at a time at night, instead of watching a movie. Movies take too long.

Finally played the demo. I saw one thing, one subtle thing, that told me these people just might be paying attention to the details.

You get to see your character’s face during play.

Yes, you have to hide your helmet to do it. But when you enter conversations with NPCs, a good portion of the time you’re looking over the NPC’s character at YOUR character’s face.

There’s nothing original in the game as near as I can tell. Nor is it flawless. It won’t be to everyone’s taste. But a game that uses Chekov’s gun is one worth noticing, and just maybe worth playing. I’ll squeeze together the cash and get it, someday.

I know I can’t speak for everyone but my husband and I are sold and can’t wait until next week.

I read all the other comments and it is very true, it can suck your life away, but in a good way. There are plants and crystals to ‘harvest’ and unless you put points into the appropriate talent you don’t always get any reagents.

Overall, I really like the whole game design and was very sad to see my demo time up. Just to clarify; you have unlimited time until you finish the ‘tutorial’ part and then 45 minutes to explore the world so hours can go by *laughs*.

If you pre-order with GameStop you get one of each weapon and an armor set for each speciality. You can also pre-order through Amazon and they save you $10 on the digital download. They give you a dousing rod to see all the nodes to harvest (nice but meh in my opinion) and the weapons but no armor sets.

Are you able to share what it is you liked about it? Anything you didn’t caer for?

YMMV, but I would strongly suggest trying the demo first. I saw it change people’s minds about buying the game, both getting people to preorder it… and getting them to cancel their preorders.