With so many such towns and villages across it that you will soon lose count. There’s just no reason at all to be engaged when you roll into a new village to see a collection of question marks hanging above static NPCs’ heads, knowing that their sole purpose is to stretch out your play via fetch quests and dungeon raids – especially when the map is as vast as Re-Reckoning’s. As such, the gameplay fusion of Fable meets World of Warcraft is something of an anachronism. This does not sit very well in 2021, resulting in an experience that feels lifeless and lonesome as you keep expecting some online player names ArchLordDumbass72 to hound you to help them with low-level quests. Reckoning hit when the idea of an MMORPG morphed with the semi-open world single-player RPG was appealing.

The question then becomes whether you can deal with what is by now quite a dated title. In terms of bang for dollar, though, there’s a lot of game here to engage with. Still, we do get the full Re-Reckoning release, which includes all the game’s expansions and improvements to date and setting the scene for Fatesworn, the upcoming single-player DLC (which we assume will need to be paid for). There’s little expectation of the boosted graphics and framerate of the other console versions for Switch owners. However, they went bust soon after release, and the game was lost in the licencing ether until THQ Nordic snapped it up, polished it off, and released this Re-Reckoned version.

Reckoning was meant to be the first in a new series of games from 38 Studios. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning initially launched in 2012 to something approaching fervency for RPG fans. Salvatore (the fantasy author so cool he gets two initials). Built on the sales-pitch pillars of world designer Ken Ralston (Morrowind and Oblivion), money man and 38 Studios founder Curt Schilling (also an ex-baseball player), artist Todd McFarlane (the Spawn guy, not the Family Guy guy) and lore writer R.A.

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