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...