I don't understand why folks make statements like "this game is full of bugs, but also has a lot of charm" and then proceed to give it a five star rating. Probably "nostalgia points". Let me try to level with this one. Yes, I love it for nostalgic reasons--I played it way back when, but I've also played it recently. I'll keep it real here though. Too many bugs and 'awkwardness'--too many times where an NPC would get stuck somewhere because of bad path-finding and I'd have to reload. Some weird animations, from character animations to spells (e.g. most of the spell animations happen very quickly and awkardly--always a let down, but in BG series, spell casting was epic) to combat (just not up to par with other games of the same period)--I also think their art design pallete for areas (city and wilderness) wasn't as extensive as what they wanted, so artistically it doesn't feel as expansive as what I had hoped for. It's not a bad game though, I love it for reasons beyond nostalgia--a lot of great/funny writing, some very interesting and fun quests, diversity in how quests can be completed by making use of the various skill-sets and just straight up player choices with the dialog trees, narrative, setting... But it's not perfect and doesn't deserve all the five stars that it's getting. I'm going with 4.
