Been playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, but I bumped the difficulty to Core after playing Kingmaker on Normal. I just finished Chapter 2 where you have to choose more concretely which story path you want to go down.

Anyway, I hate tabletop rule systems. The game is less overwhelming to me now having played Kingmaker, but there's still a lot of things that are annoying like 75% of the Feats being worthless/traps, some of them being basically required.

There are still really obvious bugs they couldn't be bothered to fix, like if you go to cast a healing spell in turn-based mode, that character will not move into range to cast it and just tries to cast it from a distance and fails it/wastes the spell. Charging pathing is broken and does not work half the time. The menus hidden behind arrows are kind of ass and if you need to click them, it's really easy to accidentally misclick to get to a less used spell and accidentally click the environment and move for no reason. Clicking anywhere with even a single mounted character is very obnoxious because their hitbox is so huge. When you are and aren't using 5-step rule is not at all clear because the UI says that's what you're doing, but after you move your spells are still highlighted until you try to actually use one and it says you're out of actions.

A lot of this could be because they designed the game for real-time with pause first, but I think that control scheme is an abomination that turns battles from interesting tactical experiences into pure chaos because there is such little support for actually telling your party what to prioritize that you have to babysit them by pausing all the time anyway. Not like Final Fantasy 12 or Dragon Age or even Tyranny, which are technically the same, but way better implementations than any Baldur's Gate-like game has ever been. There are no AI scripts for you to set priority, which even some of those way older games had. I only use it when I am fighting pure trash and swap back when the bosses come out.

You might think I hate the game based on all this and I have thought about dropping it once or twice, or at least dropping the difficulty back down, but I am somehow still having fun after 60~ hours. But I do need to take breaks and can't really have long comfy play sessions, especially because there is significantly more combat in this than Kingmaker. So far, there's been very few times where I can stop to just explore, talk to companions (they barely ever have anything to say in your base), etc. Kingmaker at least had managing your country to break things up. Wrath is just huge hours long battle sequences over and over thus far.