Clockwork Cat

After playing 1 and 2 in the series when they came out and pretty much forgetting the series after that other than a brief play of the start of 5, the Steam sale got me to jump back in and do a full playthrough. I'm using a path that's as close to the "canon" endings as possible, and using as many different character types as I can stand. I'm currently at the end of Dhonal Isl in G3, playing a canister junkie rebel. I found 1 and 2 still really fun. When I started 3 I would have agreed with Triumph that it was less good, but I feel it got a lot better on the third island. Helping the army in various ways to push west (I'm a rebel but I need to go that way and help is help) was awesome. Shapers are definitely the easiest path, and magic shaping (i.e. Vlish) is the easy way to walk the easy path. I got away with pretty much only magic shaping in 1 and 2, though its harder in 3 due to higher resistances. I've had to supplement with some fire shaping.