Objective Rating: 4,4
Subjective Rating: 5

Outstanding:
The soundtrack
The length
The choices
The freedom

Good:
Experimanting with the classes and abilities in fights
The voice acting

Mediocre:
The D&D system
The multiplayer experience (partly fixed)

Bad:
The perfomance in act III for many people (partly fixed)
People running away from your pets (fixed)
Missing crafting element

The Worst:

Thoughts:
Where to begin with this behemoth of a game. There is so much going on, that there is a lot to attack. But thats the thing, you can critize so much on this game because it has it all. So many classes, so many dialogues, so many fighting abilities, so much story and so on. This game broke the RPG genre and sucked in so many players who had nothing to do with RPGs or CRPGs before and they had fun. If I had to critize something its the too early release date. They should've waited a bit longer and release it with all the features it has now like changing your appearance.
And we have to talk about multiplayer. Multiplayer even being an option is outstanding by itself because you can share your experience with others and really roleplay your way into the world. But no one tells you in the beginning how important the origin characters are. If you play with three friends you are missing out so much important content. The game should recommend atleast one of you playing an origin character or let them be an weaker ally you can bring as a fifth member. Also if we can alter the classes of them (which makes no sense) why not let us alter the looks? Just a weird choice overall.
And I am not 100% on board with the D&D system. It is very cool to theorycraft stuff but there are so many dead spells and abilities. Why would you ever want to pick the champion if you knew what he does and when do you cast spells like true strike? I atleast didn't use half the spells because after one or two uses they felt completely useless.
But even though I only used half the spells and perks it has more to offer than 95% of other RPGs. Thank you Larian Studios for bringing this genre and the fantasy theme on a podium again and giving it the spotlight it deserves.

The early hours with this game were fantastic. I was playing with a friend, just one session every week like a real tabletop game, and loving every minute of it. It felt like every little corner of the game had been mapped out to bring all the creativity of a game with a real DM to a place with all the luxuries of a video game. We were role-playing and the game was rewarding us for it, we were winning fights by locking enemies in burning rooms and dropping chandeliers on their heads, and we were meeting new friends and doing sidequests left and right.

But as the game wore on, all this wore thin. Although the combat remained tactically deep and interesting, the room for lateral thinking narrowed—or perhaps just the lateral angles were too much the same as before. The NPC quests became rote "check in with everyone every time you rest", and the sidequests started feeling less like we were playing with a DM and more like we were struggling to find the exact right verb in an adventure game.

It all finally came crashing down in the Act 2 to 3 transition. Without going to deep into spoilers, we tried to follow up on roleplay we'd been doing the entire time (following crumbs laid by the game!) and it just categorically refused us. It broke our investment in our characters and in the large-scale plot, and once we found ourselves in the environs of the city surrounded by mountains of NPCs who largely had nothing going on we just checked out.

It only took another session or two before I said, "hey what if we didn't play this anymore?" and my friend said, "yeah I was thinking the same thing." Maybe there's just too much game here to make all of it good. Maybe the first few hours sell the player more than it's possible to make good on. Maybe D&D 5e is just not a good ruleset for this kind of thing. Probably some combination of all these and more! Either way, I'm feeling pretty burnt out on this game.

Cute game, writing can be pretty funny at times. Characters are pretty memorable despite only getting a couple minutes of screen time, and the "choose your own adventure" aspect combined with the marble mini-game is neat. Also liked the design of the little overworld map - gave this small game some scale and added charm.

Marble game itself is simple, but a fun use of the Playdate's crank.

Wish there was a way to see which game routes you have taken previously without rolling credits (e.g. via an option on title screen)

Progress: Rolled credits a couple times to get a couple different endings.