Recent reviews by XCERIIS

Ok, I think I played long enough to review this ARPG.

TL;DR: Over 2200 hrs played and I love it! There could be improvements and more content and it is coming down the pipeline

Disclaimer... I'm a filthy single player casual who plays offline only, that being said... I didn't use any specific pre-made builds for the classes, as I enjoy discovering skill synergy through experience and playing the game OFFLINE, now on to my opinion.


Void Knight is a fun class (level 98 Sentinel, 200 corr)
Paladin is a fun class (level 100 Sentinel, 200 corr)
Spellblade is a fun class (level 94 Mage, 200 corr)
Bladedancer is a fun class, struggles a bit at 100 corr (level 86 Rogue, 100 corr)

(wip) Beastmaster is a fun class (level 68 Primalist)
(wip) Falconer is a fun class (level 78 Rogue)

Forge Guard is not a fun class (level 94 Sentinel)
Necromancer is not a fun class (level 95 Acolyte)


The story is my favorite to play through, I played it many times and it keeps you going from point A to B at a fast pace and engages you with mystery, interesting areas, enemies and allies as you venture your way through Eterra as a mysterious time traveler who has to put order back into time and fight back the chaos of the all consuming void of Orobyss.

As you play through the story, many items will drop. LE offers a way to filter all Items (shift-F) by affixes, rarity and many more. It's a very useful tool and will make item drops more worthy of your class design choices as you progress - I personally just filter out what I don't need depending on the class I chose and by the affixes I want to build my character with.

The Lore of Eterra is mysterious and engaging, keeping you interested into the characters and why everything is happening around the "Epoch". As the main story unravels around you and your chosen fate, the Epoch quickly becomes the center of attention as the last Artifact of Eterra her self, a god in the world with the same name who has vanished, her opposite - is Orobyss, the dark vile god who was only happy when the universe was dark and cold nothingness.

Last Epochs multiverse of time paradoxes is an interesting approach to the idea of an endless loop of game-play, keeping the traveler occupied by endlessly running the "Monolith", timelines which hold Echo islands of lost time and ruined futures that could be holding perfect items you've been looking for. LE also offers a crafting system via the "F" key which allows you to make items with affix shards, runes and Glyphs - all of these components are collected through combat or rewards and are used to manipulate the affixes of the item to be more usable to your build or to make them stronger.

When you do find that perfect unique and that juicy exalted item you will be able to make a "Legendary" item by combining them in a "Temporal Forge", which can only be accessed via a dungeon key that drops from fighting common area bosses. Legendaries depend on the Legendary Potential (LP) of a Unique item, where all or a few Affixes from an exalted item can be fused/applied to the Unique - creating a Legendary item is all RNG of course - but hopefully you'll get want you want eventually, just don't forget to time shift with the "D" key to pick up that sweet new item after forging.

As you get stronger, you will farm even harder Monoliths called "Empowered Monoliths" this version of the monolith is much stronger, offering increased pain modifiers and challenges to the end goals for the player to overcome. Corruption is the key to success, as you will be grinding more and more of it by defeating the echo quest boss to stack "Gazes" these gazes increase the amount of corruption you gain by defeating a shade of Orobyss. The higher your corruption, the more unique loot will drop with LP. (This is the current end game of Last Epoch)


I love the music of Erik Desiderio, I think he nailed the 80ies vibe fantasy pretty good, and like Steve Pardo this will be among my favorite ARPG game osts ever.

I made my own Last Epoch Grind playlist on Spotify too, because you are going to do a lot of grinding, so here it is, over 80 hrs of game composer and game OST tracks.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Pd0i6Bxfw1V0OodxfYvic?si=c5be17597f154562

Ok so, not sure what people like about this game but I found it pretty annoying. I don't like the dialog at all or the sound effects of "bad guys" aggroing you - yeah I know they're bad guys they don't have to laugh and try to be bad guys.

good luck finding a weapon, they seem pretty rare.

This game just doesn't seem very fun.

Being in a titan is pretty cool, lots of weapons and wall jumping and intense action!

Pretty awesome game, you chat with random people and sometimes they're messed up looking and weird.

I always wanted a 3D Grim Dawn.

Overall, I did not like this game. The gameplay is not fun, levels are uninteresting. Combat is repetitive and character skill/crafting content is gated behind levels and a generic storyline. This game doesn't even fully open until level 50. It's a loot mess with more tiers than a loaded baked potato. There's an in game currency called Fate that lets you purchase additional DLC regardless of purchasing the expansion pack "Prophecy". You can buy this currency in game. There's PVP and co-op play. I did none of it.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands sucks, and I've about had it with Blizzard. While this game has dated graphics, it has everything all the other mmos have and you can solo most of it. The crafting systems are way more in depth, the housing system is endless. It has mercenaries you can hire, train and gear up. You have familiar pets that add stat bonuses while you adventure. You can collect and turn in items for rewards. The areas are huge and feel like it. Leveling feels more natural. There's exploration in dungeons, no maps so you have to figure it all out. EQ2 is a true fantasy, with, you guessed it RPG. I felt like subbing and now I have all access to everything, you still have to buy the xpacks, but I'm ok with supporting EQ2. Maybe some day they will make a modern EQ mmo again.

It's not ES, and animations are stiff. All I do is steal when I play, the combat doesn't interest me and I loose interest in the game the longer I play. It's a mmorpg like all the rest currently are. NPC interaction isn't very fun even with dialog options. All you want to do is kill them and steal their pointless souls... Mindless NPC killing and stealing anything from them, innocent bystandards slughtered from the shadows...

It was fun for a while. Then I couldn't get thrills friom killing and stealing the same things again and again and selling them to the black market. I got used to my dark life, being a murderer and so I started going to church and became a lightning sorcerer.

I recomned this game because it has some polish to it, yet it isn't the game of my dreams.... Or aging sucks - either one.

It's a nice looking iso, I had fun for about 50 hours, but it gets lazy the later you get in - like the game got used to it's own existence and was happy about how "cool" it was and started to wear a blue sweater just because. I was often left with expectations of how some event would play out and then being left short. There was a lot of "Man that could of been epic" escpecially with the Purnisc (Svef dealer) quest. Finding Purnisc upstairs first just wasn't coded very well, and then wanting Purnisc to make a come back wasn't an option either, or claiming his woman for your own soul-slave. But then you just move on. The environments don't leave much explore outside of blue highlighted perception ticks - (I really wish it was an open world Sacred 1 kinda thing). I also wish that Caed Nua wasn't a waiting upgrade for gold mini-game. There's just so much more Pillars of Eternity could have polished. But maybe that was all left for Pillars 2. Idk, maybe I'll check it out. I'm just glad I'm not funding these games, they always fall short to what I would want. Clearly the guy/gal who has all the really deep ideas is laughed at and he/she only gets to see them reach the surface of the ice and is crying somewhere inside their childhood.

Pillars 1 could of used multi-classing, but I guess that's in Pillars 2. Go figure, but hey - atleast it has harder options and number crunching right? We all know that's more important and adds a lot of filler to the content. I wouldn't eat dog food either but I guess thats a harder option to what I normally eat.

I recomend this game, because what else is there right now? Oh yeah, Pillars 2, Divinity 2, Baldurs gate 3. (>.>); etc. Good day.

Just enough fun before you open your wallet and realize who's in it. This game has everything other MMO's are missing and then pulls the fun out from beneath you and it knows you're getting into it, and you want more. Then the car sales man comes out from no where, looking like a floating burnt food clump and says "You like it my friend?". It's hard to tell if those red eyes are sympathetic or a con-artist's bluff on a bad hand of cards.