Manifest

So I was right to go with Efflora and Fidese. I used them in the earlier bossfights too. Fidese because of the healing and Efflora/Vellamik because of the defense buffs and Efflora's elemental defense. I changed their gear a bit and decided to use Syndarion as damage dealer. Old but still strong. I used his strongest ability "Force" that deals about 10k damage for sure. Better than hoping for crits. It worked. I gave him the Aegis item that I got after collectiong the 99 relicts and was able to keep him alive and Naarxoth often dispelled my defensive buffs and used that ability which sets my mp to 0 only 2 or 3 times.

Later I used Syndarion in the last battle too. I hope there wasn't anything to steal. Didn't try stealing. So the only thing was that letter from Argyle?

I liked the game. Minigames were nice and the difficulty of the puzzles was okay. Also the Complete_Item_Guide.doc helped a bit. Most of the things I would have found without help but one or two things I would have missed without it. Lockpicking was good too. On hard mode you needed to write down every single step and be very careful but it was not impossible.

Battles were good too. I played everything on medium/normal difficulty. I liked that you really needed the special abilities sometimes and that they weren't that hard and you still hat time to figure it out without thousand times reloading and trying another strategy then dieing and then reloading again.

Story was good but not great. But that is only my personal opinion. All the puzzles made it a bit "slow" and sometimes I wished for less puzzles and more background scenes for example where you see what Balerus is doing or other stuff. But then the ending was unexpected. I liked that. So that old planet was Earth if I unterstood it correctly? I would have preferred more info about some of the characters. Would have been interesting to see Balerus alive and going him with the others to earth.

By the way: I liked that last puzzle. Something not that hard... only a few hintes were you could make a few equations and then that latin sentence where you could see that E was 1 and then get the other values.

Vellamik was the best character. I really liked him(and Trux and Brynn and that thief guy. About Novriath someone said it was "uuh okay"... I think it was a bit too fast. He saw Efflora and remembered her and then he was back to normal. There could have been a few of the memories that the scientists gave him and a bit more of struggle against the wrong memories.

What I did not like: Armegmus has the special abilities to break rocks, burn trees... you come across some of that stuff earlier but you can use the ablity only later after you trigger some story event. Should be either
a) possible to use them from the beginning
or
b) explained why he can't use them from the beginning. For exmaple he could learn to use them only later or some other characters that join later could only use them.

And then I found one bug besides that F12 bug. Some minor thing. I already forgot which map exactly. But in Sanctum there are signs in front of the doors. On one door there was no visible sign but you could still "use" it and got a dialogue which told what was behind the door.