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Posted on: November 1, 2022
novous
Games: 729 Reviews: 24
You've got to be kidding me
$20 "on sale" for a DLC missionpack with bad reviews from crashes and content? I paid less for the entirety of Skyrim.
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Posted on: March 24, 2024
nianiania
Verified ownerGames: 598 Reviews: 112
Don't believe the bad reviews
The DLC is a good continuation of the first game. It basically gives more of the same. The quests are good, it also adds some larger battles, and interesting new companions. Also you can transfer some of the new loot to the 2nd game when you import your character.
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Posted on: January 12, 2025
Kobrakina
Verified ownerGames: 312 Reviews: 10
Great BG addition!
I was reluctant to play this game because of the reviews, but I'm glad I decided to give it a try. No longer will I pay attention to the reviews from the peanut gallery! It's a great bridge between BG and BG2. I loved the story and how it unfolded. The combat was traditional BG fun, but often with way higher numbers, which made spells like Fireball extra destructive. I think the side quests should be called out. There were a couple of larger ones that were very good! If you like old skool D&D adventures, for sure you'll enjoy this game. I understand some of the criticism. Yes, this game is more linear than others, but that didn't detract from my enjoyment. The various reviews for this game are unfair and don't follow the proper guidelines. If you liked Baldur's Gate, you'll like this!
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Posted on: February 2, 2025
mm002
Verified ownerGames: 171 Reviews: 2
A properly designed expansion
No real complaints here. Everything from writing to dungeon design is done in the old BG1+2 style. The area art and vistas are especially impressive with a few welcome upgrades to background animations/effects, which I don't remember seeing in the original games. The bestiary is lengthy, you'll be battling everything from dragons and snakes to liches. It's what an expansion to one of the best games ever should be like.
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Posted on: March 21, 2020
Martinvls
Verified ownerGames: 27 Reviews: 6
Mixed feelings
I am great fan of original games and avoided SoD because of bad reviews, but finally I decided to try it, mostly for extra bard artifacts to us them in BG2. Game surprised me, both in good and bad ways. Good sides: game is not boring. Really, I spent this 20 hours totally engaged in story and gameplay. NPCs - both new and old are great, Beamdog managed to get same voice actors, and good old NPCs match what you'll expect from them - this alone makes SoD worth playing for a fan. Also I didn't encountered any bugs (in 2020 though) Contradictory side: story. Story is pretty good throughout the game and I enjoyed it.. but in the end Beamdog was itchy for a story twist and that twist breaks that seamless connection of BG1-SoD-BG2. Bad side: combat. Combat is weakest part of the game. It is simply not AD&D2, it is combat of consumables. Amount of consumables used by enemies, and amount of enemies simply makes it very tedious to fight in styles similar to BG1/BG2. In the same time combat is not hard (on core difficulty), just use your wands and acid arrows and summons... so in attempt to make game more difficult, Beamdog make it too tedious for "non-consumable" walkthrough (you'll be forced to rest too often), but didn't fixed overpowered wands/potions from BG1. At some point I simply stopped using class spells at all and was just bombarding everything with fire wands while spawning monsters to avoid being hit at all. Corwin in the same time has 100 damage per round output with acid arrows and any "boss" without invisibility just dies immediately. Game is stupidly easy if you play with consumables and barely playable without them.
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