Posted on: March 13, 2017
DubConqueror
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well fleshed out interquel
I just finished my first playthrough of Siege of Dragonspear when writing this. I don't get all the hate and bad reviews. It was a wonderful game, much more fleshed out than BG1 itself. You're in for a long game if you start up Siege of Dragonspear. If you view it as just an epilogue, you will be disappointed in how long it takes. It's not something that's quickly done before starting Shadows of Amn. The story is linear, no free roaming like in BG1, but there's so many things going on. NPC's have more things to say than in BG1, almost all of it is voiced. The story is a side-track from the main storyline for a large part, but there's lots of foreshadowing of the events in BG2: Shadows of Amn. It fills in a lot of details to the motivations of the main protagonist in SoA and fills in the gaps of how 'you left Baldur's Gate under dark circumstances' (as the opening narrative of SoA goes) and end up captured in it's starting dungeon. There's even some links created with the Icewind Dale game. The game is full of special items, a bit too full, but the plus side of it is, those items give you a real sense of power progression even though your level progression is little compared to Shadows of Amn (so you won't end up overpowered if you import to BG2). What I liked less is the new art style of version 2.x of the new BG engine. To avoid the models being pixelated (the original models from the designers of the original BG1 were lost and Beamdog had to make do with the ingame sprites of the old BG1 when enhancing the engine), Beamdog chose for a blurry outlook that in my opinion, makes it look even worse. Finally, all the fuss about the transgender character Mizhena is 'much ado about nothing'. She has only 1 line about it, the sub-quest she's involved in is not even related to her gender. Edwin's sex change in BG2 got much more attention and never got such a reaction. Overall, this was a fun, involving and well fleshed-out inter-quel to the Baldur's Gate series.
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