Drakensang - Review @ VGBlogger

The Watch's Mike Anderson (txa1265) has another review up at VGBlogger, this one a positive and detailed look at Drakensang.

Here's an excerpt regarding character customization:

I have heard people complain that you cannot customize your lip color and eyebrow thickness in Drakensang as you can in games like Oblivion. My advice to those who feel that way is to go pick up a copy of Fashion Designer and leave the role-playing games to the role-players. To me character customization is about choosing the characteristics of the character you will be portraying in the context of the game, abstracted to some level. The appropriate level of abstraction depends on the focus of the game - in some games (such as Gothic) you get no choices at all, you simply start off and develop as you go; in others (such as Sacred) you choose from preset characters without ability to alter any characteristics; still others allow you large amounts of appearance options but fewer choices about your character’s stats. Drakensang allows you some minimal changes to the appearance of your character, and in my mind it was appropriate for the game type.

The real job of character customization and development is much deeper than merely setting up the appearance of an avatar, and itself forces you to make choices that will have far reaching effects through the game...