I have grown more attached to Shadowheart than I have to most people in my actual life and the fact that she's not real depresses me immensely.

Oh, the game? It's great!

The amount of ambition on display from Larian Studios here is absolutely staggering, to the point that it's actually surprising just how much of it pays off. The characters are all incredibly interesting, well-rounded and fantastically written and voice-acted. The gameplay kept me engaged for the most part, and despite my general dislike of turn-based action it was pretty easy for me to get to grips with it.

The story is great and there's enough side-quests off the beaten path that I feel like BG3 is well worth paying full price for. I went through the game at a fairly brisk pace and clocked up 85 hours in the end. If you were willing to explore different ways of playing the game (including the unique Dark Urge path) then you could easily lose hundreds of hours to it.

Sadly a few issues prevented me from giving BG3 full marks. The game's third act can be very overwhelming at first, and it can be difficult to know what to do and where to go without losing certain content. Some side quests feel unfinished, like Larian ran out of time before they could flesh them out properly. That's not to mention that a lot of the stories of your fellow companions, so beautifully developed in the first two acts, tend to fizzle out. Once you complete their personal quests they stop being the fully fleshed out characters they were and end up just being sorta... there.

There were also a few annoying bugs riddled throughout; characters sometimes being unable to jump, textures not loading properly or being stretchy, enemies taking almost a full minute to decide what they wanted to do in a turn. Nothing game-breaking but they added up.

I don't regret any of the time I spent playing this - in fact, as someone with absolutely no prior experience with anything D&D-related this has actually made me want to get into it more, whether that's through other video games or actually playing it with other people. Of course, for that I actually need to find some friends first...

P.S. I don’t care if the ‘Party Limit Begone’ mod is ‘cheating’, nothing feels better than running around the city with my merry band of ten adventurers. The easier combat is secondary to not having to miss out on any companion-specific dialogue with NPCs.

The gameplay is really fun and art direction is awesome like any other Atlus game. If you like puzzle games the gameplay segments feel very dynamic and cool. However, the story is extremely juvenile. It's like a middle schooler's idea of love and the narrative constantly punishes MC for unconsensual things (aka rape) even if you play as a good person. A story focusing on relationships requires good characters yet all of them are flatter than a harem anime and their relationships don't have any reason to exist. A person who thinks this is a good story is either below the age of 16 or is deeply impaired in relationships and will never self-actualize.

Güzel ve eğlenceli oyun. Fakat bu oyuna bakınca video oyunlarında Art Director'ün önemi çok iyi anlıyorsunuz. Oyunda güzel tasarımlar yapılmaya çalışılmış ama birbiriyle uyumsuz duran çok detay var. Mesela pixel artların grid sizeları bile birbiriyle tutarlı değil. Bazıları çok detaylı, bazıları 16bit gibi. Ayrıca alakasız çok fazla font ve renk de kullanılmış.

Bunun dışında oynanış olarak birbirini tekrar eden çok fazla yer var. Bir yerden sonra da assetler birbirini tekrar etmeye başlıyor. Bunu döngü olan kısımlar için demiyorum, linear akış içinde çok fazla tekrar göze çarpıyor. Son olarak demodaki oynanış çok daha iyi hissettiriyordu. Geri dönüşlerden sonra düşman sayısı artmış ama level tasarımı az düşmana göre tasarlandığı için yığıntı gibi olmuş.

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