I own the game on steam and have reviewed it there but I felt compelled to review it on GoG to so that I could warn people away from buying it. The visual overhaul is so minimalistic and miserly that it is, in many scenes and models, unnoticeable unless you have NWN diamond running on a second monitor to compare the two. Visually speaking this is an expensive sweetfx tweak more than it is an enhancement. The support for native widescreen is nice however the game does not actually have a fullscreen button requiring you to use alt+enter to restore fullscreen after the game randomly decides after a patch to lock to windowed mode. Online play is a mess requiring multiple work arounds to get working, you also cannot manually search the sever listings when looking for a specific server. This wouldn't be a problem if the direct IP connect feature works but it doesn't. I will say that once those I employed the work arounds that I can now both play and host multiplayer sessions but I cannot give the developers any credit for that when my players and I had to check through steam community pages and reddit to find the solutions we needed so that I could manually edit .ini files in order to get the thing to work. This sort of sloppy, lazy design is unacceptable for a supposedly 'enhanced' edition. Do not buy this game, do not support this developer until they change their poor business practices.
Gemini Rue is a cut above most games in the storytelling department. It's narrative is split between two progtanists, Azriel Odin a gruff hard boiled ex-assassin turned cop and Delta-Six a man with no past and only a borrowed name. I can't go into detail for fear of spoiling something but believe me when I say the story is worth the price of admission. On to the gameplay. Gemini Rue is a basic adventure game. You have an eye to see, a mouth to talk; a hand and a foot to interact with the world around you and an inventory. The puzzles are logical (no insane 90s moon logic here) but at times a little too easy but this is the price paid for the excellent story focus that requires the player keep moving rather than spend hours rubbing everything on everything else. The only weakness I found, aside from a few puzzles being a bit easy, were the shooting sections. I found these to be cumbersome and annoying rather than challenging. If you can look past the occasional weak puzzle and dodgy shooting galleries then you're in for a good ride through the Gemini system.
