


Thankfully you can fast travel if you do not fancy trekking from one side of the world to the other. Throughout the game you will come across new discoveries, and the world itself is vast. You will start in a forested area but eventually break out into magical areas that are home to the elves, or into great plains and deserts where different factions and creatures live. The biomes found in Amalur are incredibly varied as well. At the same time, there is a hint of negative representation here playing into a stereotype that all Irish travellers are thieves. Join the Warsworn and fight to protect the world or join the Travellers and learn the art of stealth and thievery. There is variety with the different factions, though. Quests stack up quite quickly as you are sent from one place to another while completing other quests, and some can feel a bit repetitive – having to just go and retrieve something from a cave, for example. It is a colourful and varied world found in this game, and you are constantly running into things to do and people to help.Īt the same time, it can feel a bit overwhelming in Amalur. Areas with ruins tell their story, quest lines can explore relationships between the different groups of the world as well as hunting for treasure, and lorestones discovered in the wild that tell tales of the world coming to life. The draw of Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is playing a fantasy game that really leans into its setting where elves, gnomes, humans, trolls, and so many others live in a world filled with lore. In my own playthrough I decided on a pure sorcerer build, because who wouldn’t want to shoot fire and lightning at enemies? Depending on the fates you unlock and abilities you choose to invest points in, you can mix these builds together. Might builds will favour heavy armour and weapons, Finesse relates to a more rogue/stealth build, while Sorcerers are all about the magic.

Not only does this work to paint a target on your back through the game’s narrative, it also provides the thematic reasoning for your ability to customise your character build. There are three main class types which fall into the Might, Finesse, and Sorcerer categories. Players are cast as The Fateless One, a person who has no pre-determined fate unlike everyone else in Amalur. Now, eight years later, THQ Nordic has brought the franchise back with a remaster called Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, potentially laying the foundations for this fantasy world to be revived. It had the feel of a single player game set in a fantasy MMO world with several different regions to explore, different ways to build your character, and a range of fantasy races depicted throughout, but it’s also been defined by the financial troubles that eventually sank developer 38 Studios. Back in 2012 a new fantasy RPG was released into the realms of gaming Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
