I finished it exactly once with the addon "Heart of Winter" and otherwise played it every now and then. The soundtrack always struck me as very unique, very quaint and fitting to the cold atmosphere of the game. In terms of content, it's not as story-driven as Baldur's Gate, but much more challenging in terms of combat. It had its crunchy moments, but if you approach situations tactically, you can get through quite well. If you like Baldur's Gate and don't mind a stronger focus on combat, you should get this, good game.

First playthrough of this after having completed the enhanced edition years ago and I gotta say...... Prefer this to the enhanced edition by a little bit! While a lot of the fights are admittedly pretty tank n' spank in the original, enhanced edition kits and other stuff totally trivialize a lot of them. The redone UI also kind of interferes with the atmosphere and visual composition of the game.

It was overall a really great experience with dungeons that I largely found to be fun and visually interesting with a loooot of fighting. I mentioned before that its usually pretty tank n' spank but I actually didn't mind this too much. The tiny nuances in character positioning and spell usage sort of make up for it, at least for me.

I think its missing some of the heart that the sequel has. 2 has a lot of fantastic voice acting sprinkled throughout with the interludes from Maralie setting the atmosphere wonderfully, I was missing Maralie's monologuing between chapters so much after working backwards from the 2nd game. Heart of Winter definitely steps it up in that department with a plot that is very personal and sentimental feeling. I felt very attached to my party all the way through and they will be missed...