There are a lot of good things, even revolutionary ones happening here. If you want to read those, have a look at the other reviews. I want to point out the bad stuff (and it may seem like a lot, but have a look back at how many stars i have given this game. That should tell you how good it is. Despite my many ramblings: 1. The writing of the story is frankly lackluster. I have had this kind of complaint back in divinity original sin 2 already. The world seems small if every story thread, every companion quest and every character's origin and/or destination points to a single city: baldur's gate. 2. The way your companions are introduced to you is somewhat weird. Especially the first few (astarion, shadowheart and laezel) are very hard to warm up to. I had the feeling that they were mostly arrogant, full of themselves and generally unlikable... Only to suddenly have the hots for you! Out of nowhere it seems.. I don't mind romance, but it all seems really forced. 3. Gameplay and balance. Some subclasses are just bad and kind of useless. No one picks them. Same for the deities clerics can pick. Aside of 3 (shar, selune and mystra) they dont have any effect on the story or even dialogues. Speak to the dead is also very very lackluster. It is such an interesting spell, but interacting with the dead is like having an unprepared GM in a pen and paper rpg forgetting you had that spell and then "winging" it. 4. Last but not least: the bugs. They are mostly harmless, but every now and then you might encounter a gamebreaking one. In my first playthrough I had a bug in which a critical npc just kept getting killed as soon as he got loaded into the map. It forced me to halt my progress for half a year! until it got fixed. That is unacceptable and makes me lose interest in playing the honour mode. Overall it is a good game. But it could really have been polished better. 4 Stars
