I've played three out of four of the campaigns in this title. The first one is well balanced between plot and combat, the others are less balanced. "Sword of Zehir" is mainly about raising money with the trading company and killing time with poorly designed quests, and the story of "Mask of the Betrayer" suffers from giving too much powers to the playing characters and turns the game from "Dungeons & Dragons" to "Magic & Magic", like in the old marvelous days of the book game in the 80's. Anyway, I enjoyed myself very much. Having bought it at -75% of its price, it's worth the money for sure.

I loved the first neverwinter nights in every way, this game made some well needed changes to how it handles summons and companions, aswell as armor and weapon crafting being easy and limited early game which makes it super rewarding if you use your limited resources correctly to make strong gear. I disliked how it changed how to interact with the world and a noticable lack of lootable containers such as barrels or chests. The combat seemed to have taken a hit too and feels abit more rough but its still fun. my most disliked change has to be with the classes and leveling as the max level for the main story is 20 while in the first game it was 40 which is very limiting until you get into the other stories that raise your level cap.

My entire experience with this game was never fun, just endless problem solving. It was difficult to get the camera & mouse settings right, and difficult to get the player & companion A.I. settings right. But as a D&D and RPG fan (Baldurs Gate & Icewind Dale, etc), I really wanted the Neverwinter Nights experience, so I got all the settings set as best as I could, and kept playing this game anyway. But the bug that eventually got me to Ragequit was the random camera flipping. After moving a character, the camera direction violently jerks 90 degrees in a random direction. I spent a couple days searching and reading old pages for a solution, and the only suggestion that had any effect was using a program called the Client Extender. But what that did was change the 90 degree camera flipping, into TWO smaller random camera flips. Now it either flips a small distance in one direction, or sometimes randomly flips back and forth two ways. So this was not solution. There isn't any solution except to uninstall this disaster and try a different game.

If you thought the first game was buggy, then prepare to meet it's superior. This game is riddled with bugs, some of them game breaking, from start to finish. On several occassions i was forced to use the console to advance any further. This is just not good enough to be honest. It's a big game, lots to do, lots to explore, plenty of companions and npcs to interact with and a decent story (if not nearly as good as the first game). It also has a fair share of humor, which is one of the better things about it. It just doesn't seem like they finished it properly. Your control of the party is also a huge problem. Unless i want to chose "puppet mode" and issue every single order manually, the party members will just be all over the place. If they haven't decided to just stand still in some random corner. If you can live with these things, there is still a decent game somewhere inside the chaos. But don't expect it to live up to the first game.

1 of the best on GOG