So played around 4hrs of Avowed although that includes recreating a character and idle time so id say it’s about 1.5hrs into the actual game. Started on Path of the Damned (the highest difficulty) and it’s definitely a stamina and watch the enemy placement type combat. Being able to fairly quickly swap between sword and shield to wand and grimoire with a button press is nice. It demands patience’s, maybe get a stealth kill off before focusing on the healer, definitely does not reward rushing in (atleast on the highest difficulty) ..
I can definitely feel the Obsidian jank, it’s not close to a Bethesda game in poor performance but there’s parts that do become Immediately noticeable like screen tearing when using the map (and yes I’m using a VRR display) or the first town being fairly laggy. Using the 40fps mode (on Series X) and so far outside of the town it’s been stable.
The games colour pallet does hide over the game really isn’t going for any sort of photo realism, but it looks gorgeous. Can’t say if it’s a game I’ll attempt a 100% on, it took me years to find the energy to 100% PoE2, but I’m enjoying it so far.
Ride The Chariot | ‘25 Completion
