I really liked how Tyranny started out. First with the conquest thing and then the first act where, yes, you got a shitty job in trying to get the two whiny Archons to work. But I think the game succeeded in making it feel like... yeah, you're a powerful dude. You can throw your weight around. Even if you had to do some shitty tasks, you had the opportunity to tell people "I'm the fucking Fatebinder" and they would be scared. That was really nice I think.
But once that act closes, the game turns into a more standard mishmash of "regular" RPG things. And that just takes away from the feeling of being the Fatebinder. I mean, the Old Walls is boring as shit, classic shitty non-creative RPG dungeon delving. Like it was a mark on a checklist. And the amount of mooks you have to carve through... again, standard RPG filler shit, even though in Tyranny most of them happen to be human and not wolves or whatever. I also don't think it was a great move to have a classic RPG companion system in the game because in my mind, as a Fatebinder, it just doesn't feel like it's my thing to buddy up with all these different people.
When Tyranny works, I think it works superbly. It's just that you have to go through quite a lot of cookiecutter, checkmark RPG shit to get there, which is exactly what I didn't want from a game like Tyranny. It's a bit of a shame. It would've been nicer if it was some combination of the conquest section and the first act instead, some sort of decisionmaking, text adventure, RPG hybrid where it's more about making decisions rather than running around, checking for traps, getting to know the backstory of companions and slaughtering a million people in RtwP combat.
