I bught this game straight away, carried away by excitment and emotions.

I now recognize that the game is still not as stable as I wished.
Personally, You should have tagget this game as "In Development" yet.

I perceive this, as a minimum, deceiving, both from InXile and GOG alike.

I'll lower my review to 3 stars.

The game is stable; no crashes.

It appears to me there are a lot of game system issues that should have been fixed before selling to the wider audiences.
This force me to experience the game as *not* originally intended.

Non-the-less the fact not all games are completed, no manual and the "legacy" mode is not implemented, yet the menu is there.

To me, this looks like a game still in development.

As someone who never played the original, most of the "issues" I saw on here are non-issues for me because they are just "works slightly different than in the original version but the game is still perfectly playable".

I'd agree that the lack of the second and third game and legacy mode would definitely be a reason to mark the game "in-dev", mainly also to avoid problems with people complaining that they didn't get what they expected when they read "Trilogy" and bought the game.

While I have a lot of criticisms of the game design (I think it's not very close to the original mechanics despite kind of selling itself as being the original game), I kind of dont' follow this criticism.

I think that the news page and game page are fairly accurate about what is in this game package.

At the same time, I agree with RyaReisender that this is a game in progress. There's no real guarantee that the promised modes and content will be as expected because they aren't completed yet. Anything could happen in the next year or so, and the promise of "plays like the original" may not be met.

That said, GOG has a pretty reasonable return policy. I think if you said, essentially, that you did not read the fine print and were expecting the full trilogy, that the refund will go through. If that's your main objection (that and "missing" legacy mode), then you can reconsider purchasing around the end of the year if the updates happen on suggested schedule, or whenever they appear if they take longer. This is both true and not true. IMO, the game is totally playable. However various elements of the game are simply not implemented or implemented incorrectly. Some of these are debatable.. how close to the original should it be? Some are just strangely missing or busted.

Given the updates so far, I'm hopeful that at least the worst will be addressed.

Just for fun, I tested that in the Apple 2gs version, and that square seems t be a normal random encounter square in that version.

There's actually many bugs in various versions of the game; the Apple 2gs version seems to be one of the least buggy, though even it has its quirks (for example, the healing song only heals you once when played instead of regenerating health). The Amiga version, for example, got the Warrior and Bard mixed up; Warriors don't get extra attacks when leveling up (making them useless), but Bards do.

Can t care less about 12€.
Is the priciple.

The games is not finished: 2/3 contents missing and game system not implemebted nor tested, as should have been fir a final product.

This has been deliberate lie about game status.
It is, as a fact, in development.

Why is not sold as such?
The amount of bugs in the game system is such a way to not make it as intended.

I m a damn paying playtester.
Inxile; soery but you have made a really low punch.
You should have declared this as a Dev game.
GOG, you QA control is less than crap.

So as I read what you have posted here and the original post you say its not as stable as you`d wish, yet it is stable and has not crashed.....contradiction anyone??
Next point....name me ANY game that has not had system issues upon launch? Every game has that, thats why the developers "patch" them, any game that has patches in the pipeline can be defined as in development...ANY GAME!!!!
The lack of a manual is a glaring oversight, as long as the devs give us a manual in the VERY near future its not exactly game breaking is it?
And as for the claim that "deception" has been used in the sale of this game.....really sounds like you just want a refund and are using "posh" words to make the refund sound legit.
Thinking you would have been better off just getting your refund rather than making this somewhat embarassing post.

I can't be bothered with this semantic stuff.
Bisect my previous posts as you find appropriate.

The game is in dev, yet not advertised as such.
Scam practice.

As I said before, any game that has patches in the pipeline is by definition "in development", so the next time you buy a game and dont quite like what you got you are going to claim it was not as advertised.
Well friend, you had better get used to a lot of disappointment in the future, because every game is released the same way.
For someone that has been registered on here since Sept 2009 you surely must know how games are released, if not you are either in denial or an idiot...personaly I dont care which.

Ignore OldOldGamer, he is trolling in a few threads.

Hopefully some mod can ban him.

I have tried this square in both the Apple IIe version and IIgs version. Cannot reproduce.

Maybe a media defect?

LoL
Someone with more games in his account than forum posts is trolling.

Poor creature.

As you well know, modern forum definition of trolling seems to include people saying things I don't like.