As the tittle states, this game tries to do two things at once. It tries to offer fan service, while also be its own game. It is far to hard to try and appease to many different elements within the gaming community. I think this is where, perhaps, it has disappointed fellow players and fans of this franchise. The story writing is not as bad as I was lead to believe. I kind of miss previous epochs in gaming where you had to physically discover if a game was bad or not, before being bombarded by a long list of opinions from others. I will in part agree that the writing was in large part inexperienced. This I actually enjoyed as I write a lot and from time to time might publish something. So seeing something that is in process of development is really cool for me. I enjoyed a piece of marketing they did called "Hero With a Thousand Faces", always good to see a bit of Joseph Campbell (A person who had a massive influence on George Lucas during the first trilogy of Star Wars films). However, coming into what this medium considers a classic in writing with a lack of passion has been somewhat less thought out. The original games where a typical "the stars align" and you could see the passion for D&D, gaming and the setting of the forgotten realms. This is something I wasn't expecting and therefore got some enjoyment from re tweakings to certain aspects of the narrative. The game dynamics to me were similar to the old games. I like the lack of loading screen. The bugs were pretty bog standard, I imagine as someone that started gaming on the spectrum and commodore, I have more patience than others, and the CLUA system works perfectly. Though I felt somewhat disappointed with seeing more style over substance. I would have taken a bit more questing over looking at updated visuals and redesigned maps. Not as bad as others have said, Should be approached as its own game and not one part of the larger franchise.
