Baldur's Gate was noteworthy for its open world, for its brilliant writing, and for its strict adherence to the spirit of the Forgotten Realms setting. This abomination lacks all of those things: -You're shoehorned into a ridiculous quest that makes no sense at all. Whether you're playing as a good character or an evil one, the story gives you very little incentive to proceed with your quest. The writers probably think that this is "nuanced", but I think that it's just really sloppy storytelling. At all times, I felt apathetic about the main quest -- and utterly ambivalent towards "The Shining Lady", which I certainly can't say about Sarevok, Irenicus, and Mellisandre! -As far as I can tell, there's absolutely no open world to explore -- just sequential map segments that are extremely frustrating and annoying, as Beamdog implemented some monster-spawning "feature" that leads to swarms of low-level monsters attacking your party at random intervals. -The writers force SJW nonsense into the game, with a "transexual" character, Minsc making fun of Gamergate, a refugee crisis, and so forth. Terrible. There may have been good ways to write these issues into the story, but they were not implemented. Instead, we're faced with ham-fisted propaganda. Just abysmal.
