the expansion isn't as good as GA2 though.
The unofficial 1.9 patch and All Seeing Eye are essential add-ons, plus you can import characters from EOB1
offer the Unofficial patch, GOG!
I have the original CD-ROM of this and, like the original Tomb Raider, which it essentially is but in a dungeons setting with medieval weapons instead, it plays much like it, if less well designed with workmanlike dungeon levels. Due to it being 800x600 resolution or lower, it looks pretty rough today, and is best played with a joystick, once you get it to work on Windows 10, or IF you do. Get one of Eidos' early Tomb Raider episodes instead, and Miss Croft looks and animates far more presentably and graphically than this game's protagonist, Red Lotus.
A rather simplistic point and click with lush, slick, if childish graphics marred a little by a little bit of race identity politics. Graphical quality is superb, though you'll have tio pull the slider way down to make it playable and non jerky on older machines, while the soundtrack is atmospheric. Voice acting is clear though bloodless and bland.
Disregarding the fact it is free... Looks beautiful, but like many point and click adventures before it, it suffers from the same awful bad designs: Clunky UI, illogical tasks or puzzles, sluggish movement, unskippable scenes, along with solutions to things that wouldn't happen in real life, or that few would think to do or put together in a month of Sundays. And the beginning? The room has no door! What room has no door?
Look, here's the thing: Yes, the portraits are available for no money cost if you hunt around enough or know where to look and know how to tinker and work with game files to install them - not everyone does. Those users that can do so, then fill your boots Go you. If you have the moneytime/shoeleather to hunt around for them, go ahead. For many however, you can pay yourself £3.70 to £7.83 for the hour spent doing so (UK Minimum wage depending on age), Or, You can spend £2.09, and get them installed fuss free in the time it takes to boil an egg via the GOG platform or via the Beamdog client - Oh and you get all future DLC included if you bought the Digital Deluxe Edition of NWN... Artists have to be paid... You pays your money or moneytime. you takes your choice.
