Between The Legend, Armored Princess, and Crossworlds I've put in about 1,000 hours into the series. I felt each one was better than the last, though I also felt that Crossworlds was a terrible value for what you got over Armored Princess.
But this game...this is extremely disappointing. After putting about 40 hours into WotN I've decided to hang it up and play something else instead. Hopefully in a month or two or several this game will get several improvements, but I half feel that the devs rushed out a half-baked product with the idea that the community was going to fix their mistakes for them. I feel it's a real slight to fans of the series.
I can say without much doubt the following:
1. The quality of this game is such that first-time players may be turned off immediately from past and future games in the series.
2. The quality of the game is such that veterans of the series may be turned off from buying the next game in the series for at least the first 6 months.
It's too bad...I wish the devs well and don't mean to be so negative towards the game, but there's no good excuse for what's been given to us. It's barely beta test quality, but we all paid a retail price.
