Impression: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Arcanum: A view of the character attributes and magic skills
As in real life ‘you can be anything you want’ isn’t true for everybody.

Oh Arcanum, I really wanted this to be a proper review, not just a mere impression after a (good) couple of hours. I put in the work to make you run. I installed patches and mods. I ran you in the proper compatibility mode and as administrator. I did some weird command line shit to make playing you as smooth and painless as possible – from a technical stand point. Come to think of it – that probably should have been GOG’s job, where I bought you for real money. What I want to say is: I really tried.

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