Baldur's Gate 3

Game is an unbalanced mess. The beginning, as usual, will be the most ironed out section of the game. Essentially Act 1 was such a blast playing through, however, the game past that point completely nose dives. The story feels like it doesn't exist. Either you are running around exploring or you are entering into combat which, by the way, the implementation just does not work for this sort of game. I ran into so many encounters where I had to load a previous save or keep loading a save to get myself out of fighting. It just became too tiresome. Kinda lame that failing a speech check more often than not will most liklely turn into a fight with you being punished for it. Furthermore, I am unsure what the idea behind throwing 10 enemies against your 4 party members is, but it got old. It got old really fast. Initially, the camping mechanic seemed pretty cool, until you get to Act 2. Having to long rest after every fight literally throws the tadpole threat out the window. I thought we were slowly transforming to monsters and had to find a cure quickly? I also had to drop the difficulty down to the easiest setting to try to get the game to feel more immersive and even that setting isn't even balanced. Having to rest to recharge your spells and abilities is such a terrible design decision for this game. I can't get over the amount of romance that exists in this game which is a shame because Shadowheart and Wyll are well written characters, both with engaging and interesting quests. But all that is undermined by lust and sexual degeneracy. At one point, my camp just felt like an orgy-in-waitng. I can determine one party members entire fate depending if I'd like to engage a sexual relationship with them or not. Overall, I was looking forward to being immersed by the story and decisions of each character. What I bought was frustrating game design and woke nonsense. By the way, a certain character has the Star of Remphan carved into his face which I thought was hilarious.

This game has an incredible potential, but is constantly marred by puzzling and inexplicable flaws. All the origin characters are incredibly weird: a demon slayer with demonic prosthetics, a renegade noble that became an hero of the Realms after a devilish pact, a vampire, a mage as powerful as Elminster... one of them would be tolerable, but your story gets ALL of them toghether like some kind of circus. And they all start at level 1 anyway, so how does that make sense? I've never seen such a bad character design before. The core pitch (weird power that corrupt) is also straight-up taken from Mask of the Betrayer. There is no continuity with the previous games. BG2 ended with your character dealing with Bhaal's essence somehow, NWN 2 had you absorb Myrkul's remaining essence, yet you have again all the death gods alive. I understand this is a fault of 5th edition, but still it makes the setting absurd and if you add it to the fact that several characters from BG2 were brought back and re-hashed in (despite being 100 years later) the whole story feels annoyingly unoriginal. Save games. Good lord, I don't know why Larians are stuck in 1990 but why is this game lacking the most common autosave options? You spend one hour and half looting a cellar and looking for a vendor, then you abruptly get into a fight and your last savegame was before that all. I don't have much time to play and this gross oversight costs me whole days of progress. But there are also some good things here. Lots of dialogue, several non-standard interactions (even if they all sum up to the same three things: mind reading, speak with animals, speak with dead) and every major quests can be solved in a good or a bad way, occasionally with some extra neutral options too. Your choices do matter and the story, which is pretty long already by itself, lends itself to be replayed for at least a second time. It's a decent game but we're very far from the quality of its predecessors.

The game does many things well, but my main problem is that it doesn't feel anything like a baldurs gate game, but rather more like divinity original sin game. It's more like a divinity original sin 3 than baldurs gate 3. I feel the name is misleading. In conclusion: If you liked the divinity games, you're going to enjoy this. If you came looking for baldurs gate 3, you might not enjoy it. I started playing BG2 again, and I enjoyed it far more than this game, even considering I've played through baldurs gate 2 more than once already.

I dont want to waste words or time on this. Levels restricted, The story didn't live up to the hype, And now I need to sign in to play, It's a death of a thousand papercuts.

When a friend showed me the character creator, that's when I knew I'd love this game. The whole universe manages to adapt to my imagination. I love my goofy character and can't wait to play them in my own campaign someday. Everything from the plotlines, the characters, the voice acting and the environments feels like crossing through to another world. And it's overall just really funny a lot of the time. I can't wait for September !