No real complaints here. Everything from writing to dungeon design is done in the old BG1+2 style. The area art and vistas are especially impressive with a few welcome upgrades to background animations/effects, which I don't remember seeing in the original games. The bestiary is lengthy, you'll be battling everything from dragons and snakes to liches. It's what an expansion to one of the best games ever should be like.
Eternal embers doesn't and can't fix some of the glaring issues facing TQ after 3 expansions: - experience points have become irrelevant since you'll level up just 2 or 3 times throughout this expansion. Besides, increasing your strength from 1200 to 1215 won't make you any stronger and you have nowhere to invest those extra points in the mastery tree - the relevant skills are probably already maxed - picking up gold has likewise become irrelevant, buying weapons from merchants costs tens of millions of GP and you can effectively lose all the gold you've hauled throughout the game just to buy a couple of items - farming relics for artifacts is as painful as ever. Chances are you'll be collecting a bunch of greater/divine recipes because you need recipes from lower difficulty levels. That's a massive time waster to get. - with lowered resistances on "legendary" you'll essentially be a glass cannon. Prepare to die often. Eternal embers itself has some annoyances worth mentioning: - the areas can be massive and you'll frequently get lost as there is no clear indication where you have to go to progress. This "open world" concept gets old pretty fast - halfway through the game you'll enter Egypt again and the this part of game is just badly optimized and dull. Massive areas, endless optional dungeons and repetitive battles with same enemies over and over again. On top of it all enemies seem to drop only one specific relic - Serket's touch. You'll have no incentive to fight these enemies, but you'll have to since you'll probably be lost, desperately trying to find the next rebirth fountain It's a shame some of these issues destroy my overall impression of Eternal embers, especially because it's visually by far the prettiest of the expansions. One thing is for sure - unless developers address some of the issues above, there is no need for any extra expansions. Just start working on TQ2 instead.
