I can't rate this yet since I played this years ago and I haven't actually finished it, hence the shelved mark, but this was REAL boring from what I can remember. I don't even mind the old and occasionally weird "real-time action combat" sorta style but this one just wasn't working for me, and the story was so barebones I'm actually kinda shocked it came AFTER the Baldur's Gate duology, which were and still are praised for their narratives to this day, and even Icewind Dale, a game from Black Isles that while definitely more combat-oriented, still had some cool sequences from the little I dabbled with. Maybe one day when I get a hankering for a Bioware deep dive, finally going beyond the Dragon Age, KOTOR1, and Mass Effect shackles I grew to fall back on, I'll give it another go, but even then Jade Empire and the previously mentioned BG Duo seem to be more my speed.