Posted on: July 4, 2017
Electric-Wizard
Games: Reviews: 4
Shameless and lacking.
Quite simply put, this is not a Baldur's Gate-level product and doesn't deserve the name. The writing is hackneyed and jarring, and doesn't have even a hint of the brilliance that BG1 or BG2 ooze from every pore. The characters have been devolved from "interesting people with multitudes of facets" to "one-dimensional punchline/stereotype". The plot is blindingly stupid when really, it should have written itself: it takes place shortly after BG1 where you're basically clearing out the last of the bad guy's forces. Instead of this growing into a rising political crescendo, you almost immediately end up getting visions from Force ghosts, having the story of BG1 rehashed and fed to you again, and culminates in an ending so monumentally stupid it beggars belief. In fairness, five bucks on sale isn't a terrible price, so if you want to gawk at it to see how bad the damage is as if you were driving to work and saw a motorcycle accident, this isn't a bad price point for it. But I really assure you that you will walk away unsatisfied on every single level.
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