Character development is extremely slow and leveling up is very difficult. Naturally, you can't step into other parts of the map because you don't have enough levels. The turn-based battle system is extremely difficult and slow. I even had to install a mod to speed up the clunky animations in the game. There is an unfair system in dialogs. The results are randomly determined by the npc, usually with a rock, scissors and paper system. After reading so much dialog, researching the map, talking to NPCs, everything gets messed up. The main quest and side quests get mixed up. Even though what to do is indicated a little bit in the texts, this is very, very insufficient. You can't understand what to do and where to go. You just wander around the town. The section where you can look at the list of available missions in the game does nothing but confuse everything even more. I think it is very difficult to finish the game without any help from anywhere unless you look at the walkthrough and follow it. After all, what's the point of playing a game if you can't finish it by looking at a guide? You need to spend hours having fun without getting bored. I don't have time to waste my patience for this game. In short, the game has an unbalanced system within itself. It bored me so much that I couldn't continue any further. A game that started well became a hopeless case for me later on. When you compare this game to the second game, it doesn't feel like a sequel, nor do you realize if it was made by the same developer. The only similarity between them is their names and they have nothing else in common. It's a very amateurish job by Larian. They got over their inexperience when they were developing the second game, but I wish they would have released big updates later on that would have fixed the first game because I was really curious about the story. Even if I somehow finish this game, I can never consider it a successful game regardless of the terrible experiences it gives me. This is a really bad and unsuccessful game.

I wanted to play through these with my bf, we got about 75% through the main stuff here and had a lot of fun with the combat and some of the interactions together, but I think to enjoy the story properly with the way we play stuff, it just doesn't work as a co op experience for us personally. They're long and unwieldy, even if the Co-op feels good overall. The dialogue is pretty good, and it does drop some interesting events on you, but largely in our context it just felt like running back and forth with trivial objectives. The combat feels great and gives you some wonderful tools. Frankly I have no notes on the combat because it suits the game very well, is engaging and fun, and is the part of Co-op that feels good.


It's all a bit too generic, though, and the presentation is lacking. I'm not a huge straight up sword and sorcery style fantasy fan, there has to be some particular hook to make it more palatable to my tastes, or just be well crafted enough to keep me engaged. There arent any big hooks that appealed to me, and with the combo of problems we had with playing in this manner and knowing div 2 and baldurs are better, we decided to split from this and play those individually.

It's also so so sad that there aren't really furry races in their games. I'm probably a minority for all of Larian's ventures for this, but throw us a fox or werewolf or something. Dragons and lizards don't count.