A very impressive game in terms of its scope and the robust nature of its systems, after beating it I'm already thinking about what I'd like to do in future playthroughs.

I will say though that as a person who is pretty directly the target audience for this-- I grew up playing the original Baldur's Gate and have played both D:OS games, as well as having played a campaign of D&D 5e before, I did find some of the mechanisms of this game kind of hard to parse, such as how many times or when you can long rest before it becomes a problem for some story event.

I also think the ending section of the game is disappointing in terms of the polish and quality to its production. It's the grandest section of the game and feels like it didn't get enough effort and care, especially due to how sparse the audio design is. Also got frequent visual bugs during it. I do think the final confrontations are satisfying but can't say I'm not disappointed that such a high quality product leaves its endings like it does.

Reviewed on Jan 08, 2024


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