From my experience of playing all the other BGs( 1 & 2 multiple times) I can tell you this is not BG unfortunately. The game has its own merits, but the grindy searching for objects to sell and talking animal quests make this game Divnity 3. The spells have been simplified, A lot of them were just removed. "Fly doesn't let you fly you can just get to vertical positions faster so it is not fly, you don't float and enemies can't get to you. At the moment I am waiting for some more patches and maybe I will complete it but I haven't finished ACT 1 cause its a slog.
I really wanted to like this game. But the Russian Storytelling of find " How to Open Doors" is just plain bad. I had it with their locked doors. every quest has a locked door with no hints on how to open it most of the time. So you waste time looking for the answer until you realize you are wasting your time and you cannot find an answer. I liked the combat system and the story was not bad but the frustration it builds with the always jamming locked doors in front of you is 2 much