The game that has given me the closest experience to Baldur's Gate 2, since BG 2 came out in 2013. While I enjoyed Pillars of Eternity, the story felt a little flat, and the game was overwritten. Pillars 2 resolves all of those issues, the story feels amazing, the writing is very tight, the setting is beautiful. If you have concerns about Pillars of Eternity, (the first one), being a bit of a slog, consider skipping straight to Deadfire, there is no real advantage to playing PoE first, as you have to remake your character as a new level 1 character in Deadfire anyway. I only had two negative points playing Deadfire, firstly, I played through all three of the DLCs in my first playthrough, which made the game VERY long, as all three DLCs expand on the base game's campaign, (they are played during the main campaign, not after it), they feel like massive side-quests, and apart from The Forgotten Sanctum, feel very separate from your original adventure. Each of the DLCs includes some screen time for three of the Sidekicks from Deadfire, (minor companions that didn't get much airtime in the main game), and does provide more information about the world and what's going on. My second complaint was several odd quest bugs that cropped up in the second half of the game. I had waited until the "final" patch, so I was hoping that all such things were resolved, but still ended up with a quest giver or two that wouldn't let me turn in a quest. I had also had an NPC quest giver and a vendor that vanished until I completed a quest unrelated to either person. None of the bugs were blockers, although I spent a long time searching for Candied Nuts - only to not be able to turn them in for a reward. All the unresolved quests dropped from my journal once the story advanced past them, however. Great game! Adore it, better than Pillars of Eternity, and, (unpopular opinion?), way better than Divine Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Kickstarted this game, although I've never played any Shadowrun game before, and didn't know anything about the setting. I wasn't disappointed. I see some reviews have mentioned the checkpoint saves, but this has now been fixed, and the game can be saved anywhere. The art is beautiful, and the game got me really interested in the way the world setting works. It is quite short, I think I finished it in 8 hours or so.
Many people will tell you to skip this game and play The Witcher 2, but I fully recommend The Witcher, it's worth your time.
