Thoughts on finishing the game (total playtime 10:57)......
....well, you'll play this again and again for the same reason you played the demo again and again. Because there isn't enough here to constitute a full game, but there's something engaging about the loot and the core gameplay mechanic and you just want to keep on gonig. I'm disappointed that after 4 years of development we couldn't get more than 4 levels of corridors filled with cut n' pasted architecture and handful of enemy types. The story is just weird -- it fills like you're coming into the middle of a season of Lost without having watched it before. The game seems to assume you know what's going on, and that you're already familiar with characters and their motivations. And while the ending is not technically a cliffhanger (nobody is left in immediate peril), it does feel very abrupt and unsatisfying.
I'd say it's still fun, but it feels more like something that would be the first chapter of a $20-30 episodic game series, rather than a $60 retail product that represents the singular multi-year effort of a huge developer. You can get your money out of it just by playing it over and over again, but at the end of the day you'll wish that there was more to play and see (especially considering that you'll never want to revisit The Ice Forest).
My Berserker is at level 30, and I will probably press on to Maximum level (though it depends on how fast you can get there). I'll start an open game later tonight if anyone in my level range wants to do a couple areas.
