++ Character generation and development (from an RPG, not personality viewpoint) ++ Tactical battles + Graphics / music / sounds are doing their job, liked, but did not love the atmposhere - Still do not understand why you have to deal with regular arrows / bolts etc. in any game in the 21st century, adds nothing to the gameplay that you have to deal with ammunition - Identifying which things are magical and which are not are super annoying, they should be always shown in different color (you have to ID every jewellery...) - Sometimes 3D environment was super confusing (library) The minuses are like small bad technical design issues IMO, this is a great game. If you like IWD or similar games, and you do not want really deep adventure elements, than this is a must play!
I played almost 10 hours with this game, got into the outer part of the temple. There I stopped playing due to a bug where my main weapon somehow vanished from the hand of my fighter. Since it was not the first issue I faced, I quit the game and never went back. Good: - battles are good, tactical, if you put energy into you character creation etc., it pays off - atmosphere is good - I personally loved the graphics and sound effects, music was mostly OK, sometimes voice acting is bad, but it adds to the nostalgic feeling Bad: - controlling the characters when not in battle is awful, feels sluggish, sometimes some characters just stop moving even if they are selected - game can crush randomly - in the starting village, you run up and down the whole town several times to do quests which felt absolutely unnecessary, boring and annoying due to the control hardships. I like RPGs (e.g. Planescape Torment), but in this game, everything outside of character development, loot and battles feels like a drag - bugs mentioned earlier (randomly vanishing NPCs which appear and disappear as they would like, disappearing weapon slots, enemies somehow see you through walls an initiate combat, but are not coming closer to you etc.) To summarise: if you can patch it up, and deal mentally with the horrible RPG parts/dialogs/running from NPC to NPC, you will enjoy the battles and the D&D system. Otherwise, Icewind Dale 1+2, Baldur's Gate 1+2 are far better options IMO.
