I played this through to the end (the original NWN2). The characters are interesting, voice acting good, plotting fair, typical D&D and cool for that. Music well done as well. Inventory mgmt typical for the time. I had a few bugs, one that wouldn't let me leave a location forcing a quite old save (worked the second time thru lost about 2 hours). I think the game broke down near the end. The entire keep building "mini-game" thing near the end felt contrived and out of place and frankly wasn't that interesting. The ultimate build-up to the final battle was...fair...I've played far better...but this game truly has the ALL TIME WORST ENDING OF ANY RPG EVER. I'm 35. I've been playing PC RPGs/NES/Sega Master System (Phantasy Star 1 shoutout)/SNES/etc etc since the 80s -- Ultima V, Wizardry 5 on thru the SSI games and then the "old"/new classics of BG1+2/IWD/etc... This game takes the cake. Go ahead. Google NWN2 ending disappointment. They flaked at the end. Wasn't cool. The opposite of how cool some games build up and then "pay off." After countless battles, hours, story investment, etc, it just literally peters out, trails off, and meh.... I wanted to like this more, but about 2/3 through (the first 2/3 really were rather fun and enjoyable just now AWEsome) -- the last 1/3 was like a terrible early aftertaste of bitterness....

Know that this game should be called "Lemmings have more brains than your party 2" or "Try to get the camera in a decent position before dying 2" or "The art of selling things painfully slowly 2" or "Is that an automatic equipment re-shuffle or are you just happy to see me 2" or "Getting attached to a useful character who you probably wont be able to use most of the time 2" or "Experiment with the AI behaviour options and watch your party go double full retard 2" or "Enemies clearly made up of physical matter appearing out of nowhere 2" or "The art of getting four people and a pet through a simple door in a dungeon 2" or "Fantasic views of the inside of walls using three cameras 2". Know that the music gets the stars.

While I do own Neverwinter Nights and all it's expansions, I did never finish it due to lack of time. I did get through the first few parts though, and it was fun to play. Nothing much to say: it sounds and looks great, but seeing that I still play Baldur's Gate 1 (often even unmodded, in 640x480), you can imagine that I'm pleased very fast in that regard. Neverwinter Nights 2 and it's expansions were hard to get in 2009 (in The Netherlands), and the patches were even harder to find. There is no "full patch", like Neverwinter Nights 1. You need to download all the seperate third party patches from the IGN Vault, and use a third party program to actually install them, if you don't want to depend on the update servers forever. Therefore I've saved these patches, as I can see me playing this game in 2016, 10 years after release. (That is no strange thing to do for me.) And now, as I've done with every game that I've own(ed) on CD, I wil rebuy it on GOG, so I can give away my CD's and don't need to worry about patches, DRM, or No-CD Cracks. Just download, install, and play. Forever, as long as you have a computer that can run the game. As it should be. Thanks GOG. I'll download and archive this game for the time that I can actually get around to it, (re)play it, and finish it.

I'm writing this review after playing only the original campaign, hopefully MotB will make me change it. But I hoped I would enjoy this game more. I didn't like many of the changes from NWN1. Not only I was forced to have a party (partially by toughness of certain parts), but often I had to take a character with me that I didn't like at all and would kick him out if allowed. The influence system makes it worse. It often made me to take unwanted characters and say things I wouldn't say, just to gain the most inf. OK, reality, but took liberty from the game. Story felt cliched and sometimes confusing, funny at times probably not intended. It reminded me of stories such as KOTOR, only being worse. NWN1 had a simple, but great story which worked for me. I also didn't like strategy elements added to the game, like managing the keep. Particularly, it wasn't explained well enough in the game. Even after patching, I encountered several bugs, some game breaking forcing me to reload. No Time Stop?! Make the game harder in a different way than taking the best spell I was looking forward to from the game! Ok, I was overpowered in NWN1, but enjoyed it. In NWN2 I felt crippled, even when the ending was easy (haha just recalled killing a certain character bragging with power with Finger of Death in a couple of seconds after starting a fight). Not very interesting locations, mostly. NWN1 wins again. It was still a good game, but it lacked the magic of NWN1 where I couldn't stop playing.

Bugs and I got problems with file corruptions. I cant even play the OC that my game crashes or save files gets corrupted. 20$ wasted