Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

We finished the main campaign in just over 40 hours of play. That, alone, is an impressively long game, but we’re going to be completely honest: we skipped a lot of side quests, and didn't complete all of the different Faction's quests. Those 40-plus hours were spent doing a smattering of missions in each town on our way through the core storyline, and we passed dozens and dozens of yellow exclamation points (denoting new quests) in each area.

Kingdoms of Amalur is too long. With a faster main quest and the wildlife-slaying filler quests removed, the scenery would change faster and progression feel less like a grind. More care could have been taken in making each area feel interesting. The Faeland's verdant forests, sunny plains and deserts are pretty, but always derivative. It just doesn't feel like a place where people live, and there's no sense of discovery to exploring its lands.