Thank you for this masterpiece. I've not played a game in years that have caused so many different emotions from laughter to shredding a small, Phenomamanly tear.

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After playing a total of over 1000 hours of different Paradox games (I know that isn't even that much), but this is the first time I actually got disappointed. I didn't even have high expectations for the game, unlike Stellaris (which gets boring fast too).

The game is simply bland and boring. Every faction is similar in the end, with only small differences that in the long run don't really matter. The UI is terrible in my opinion, the different icons they have for different tabs are made just too complex, instead of something simple like in EU4. The ledger and the music player are missing too, but will most likely be added in a later date.

I got bored of the game in only 4 hours, tried different countries during that. And as a final try I tried playing as Rome. That playthrough ended after I conquered Etruria, as I got bored. The peacetime gameplay is even more boring compared to EU4 as an example. It's a waiting game.

The combat is fun, until you start steamrolling everything, which will happen so fast as you don't really have to worry about aggressive expansion or coring in this one. Especially when the AI is broken. I migrated to India as Dania as a joke, I was able to grow in peace for 20 years until they attacked me. But they didn't. They didn't throw a single unit at me, so I was able to win the war without doing anything. Had I waited for more, I probably could have taken land, but I just got hundreds of ducats or whatever the currency is in the game. After that war I ended that playthrough.

I wouldn't recommend getting the game at this point. The game will get better in a year or two, when it gets free updates and DLCs. I personally don't mind Paradox DLC policy, as long as I get my money's worth of the game, like I've with EU4 and CK2.

A short touching story with a suberb soundtrack, well worth the money.

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I rate it 9/11 because my king keeps dying before my heir comes of age

Didn't really have any expectations of it, so I wasn't disappointed in any way. Looking forward to modding the living ♥♥♥♥ out of it once SKSE comes out.