Recent reviews by Boogiepop

Root is an extremely fun game. I bought this after enjoying the board game with friends for a while. I have to say that this version of the game plays great, and faithfully to the board game. I'd consider this an auto buy if it wasn't rampant with bugs. I've played maybe 4 or 5 games and I've encountered bugs in most of them, one of them being game breaking. One of the bugs was as simple as the Command Warrens card I crafted not working with the lizards. The game breaking bug came in the siege challenge where you play as the birds against the cats with the caveat being that you can't win unless the enemy keep is destroyed. The game bugged out when I used the Favor of the Rabbits card to destroy the keep. The game never registered me winning, and even after wiping all the cats from existence and gaining a good 70 victory points in the process, I was stuck sitting there soft locked.

The other criticism I have for the game is that the battles arent skippable, and take a good chunk of time to complete. It would be nice if there was an option to skip the long cutscenes. If they fixed the bugs and the cutscene issue this game would be a 10/10 with me. The game is visually charming, and has a great base in the intuitive rules of the root board game.

This game had a lot of potential. It was really fun playing it through, and trying the different skill sets to reach the goals I wanted. However there are too many set events that lead to death: if you don't have certain skills you will die no matter what. Thats cool and all, but it makes it hard to lead your story, and makes a ton of skills useless. In other words there arent all of the options they claim in the trailer. They nearly made a set course of skills you have to choose. An example being that you will almost always die by poison if you dont have a high divination skill, and they make divination so important for so many events, theres no reason not to take it. While tons of other skills like horse riding are useless. Theres probably only one little optional event you'll need horseriding. I played through the story 5 times over and I've never even encounted an event mentioning it. Another thing is that they even hint that you can get your lumen jewel without saying 'screw it' and resorting to busting in by force and dissapointing your father. through all of the horrible demises you must prepare for, your corrination will be upon you by the time you could get into the treasury, making it useless.

Even after all of the complaining about the limits of the game, I would still recommend playing it. It was fun, and took me a while to beat. Throughout the game you get many tiny little satisfactions from avoiding death, or simply impressing people with your skills. I promise, you wont be dissapointed until you reach the end of the game and think "wait. what... its over? I DIDNT EVEN GET MY MAGIC YET!!!!". . . Well those were my thoughts before turning off the game and being annoyed. lol.