i guess people that find that shit attractive don't have the taste to tell anyways
i didn't play bound by flame but i played the previous spiders game, mars: war logs. i heard the games are pretty similar
mars was basically a small budget witcha 2 clone. it was pretty light on mechanics and the story was kind of all over the place, but it was surprisingly polished and had a lot of systems with like real time combat and crafting and skill trees and side quests and whatnot. the story also branched somewhat which was pretty cool. combat is basically the witcher 2, you have your block and your roll and you lock on dudes and spam roll and just use attacks or guard breaks and spells and all that stuff. it also had some cool quests with like multiple solutions (including a detective quest! i love detective quests!)
i heard bound by flame is a bit more action-y and less story-focused but from the video's i've seen it looked exactly the same lol
i think what's not so exciting about bound by flame is that mars at least had a pretty good setting and a pretty good "set up" in general. like starting the game planning a prison break is pretty darned awesome. it's set in a colony in mars and has some weird technocracy cyberpunkish stuff going on that is pretty cool. bound by flame is like dark fantasy or something which by now has been done to death, so that's kind of lame
Yeah I was really disappointed that Bound by Flame went the generic fantasy route, and even more disappointed that it seemed to be more successful as a result. Mars War Logs was hardly perfect but it was good fun and got good post release support (hell they redid the whole dialog translation), and Of Orcs and Men was a unique take on the genre. Bound by Flame just looks like a mediocre Dragon Age spinoff to me. The last thing we need is more janky fantasy rpgs.