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Summary: slightly better than bad pizza
Review: Well, I have to admit that it's a very pretty game, but I was largely disappointed in it. I actually bought it because I'm a huge fan of Morrowind, and I planned on getting it back when it was going to be Sea Dogs II, but it wasn't anything like I expected.One problem is with the characters' HP and health items--the first being nonexistent and the second working far too slowly and being far too clunky--and too expensive!--to use. About half the enemies you run into on the very first island can kill you in one blow, and you'll only rarely run into single enemies. And even with a good sword and the "professional fencer" ability, you're weak. Like a little girl. Also, the dungeons are truly pathetic when it comes to items, and killing enemies gives you nothing but minor experience. They won't even let you loot the bodies! On many, many levels, this game makes no sense, and if I didn't know it was originally designed by Bethesda, I'd never have guessed. It makes me wonder if this was the game they were going to put out before Disney bought up the rights or if Disney changed a lot at the last minute to result in such total suckitude. Maybe Bethesda didn't want it to look too much like their Elder Scrolls games and changed stuff themselves but didn't have much time to actually work the bugs out of the changes. Either way, it's terribly simplistic and at times downright frustrating. For instance, you can't even move sideways. There's only forward, back, and jump back. No lateral movement whatsoever. Eventually, I realized part of the reason for the HP issues--if you weren't getting killed every three minutes and waiting to reload, you'd realize that you can play the entire game in three days, start to finish, including sidequests. You can probably do it in two, in fact, if you don't stop to chase pirates every few minutes. The sea battles are practically the only good thing about the game and saved it from being a complete disappointment. It truly helps that I got it on sale for less than I'd waste on pizza I won't eat because I'm too tired to cook. Three days' worth of entertainment versus a mediocre pizza...well, it wasn't a complete loss....
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