Inquisitor Very Early Impressions

While you wait for our own Eric Schwarz’s detailed review, you might be interested in reading this “very early impressions” piece from Forbes’ contributor Erik Kain on Inquisitor, the long-in-development isometric PC RPG. Here’s a snippet:

Also unlike most RPG titles out there, Inquisitor feels more like a mystery than an adventure. Right off the bat you’re investigating gruesome murders, possible traitors, and mysterious disappearances. As the apocolypse draws near and demons and monsters roam the wilds, the church and its inquisition of which you are now a part has grown far more powerful.

So far, I’m enjoying the game, but it’s certainly not a game for everyone. It’s slow, as I said before, in both movement and story. You spend a great deal of time reading, and the translation is laughably bad at times in a charming, forgivable way. Still, no matter how charming the dialogue, the shakiness of the translation can break immersion from time to time. What is meant as a serious scene can come off as unintentionally humorous.