It is a bit of a slay and I really really like how they handled some bg1 chars with Skie and Safana as standouts. The maps are pretty varied and fun to explore and the devotion to making this feel relatively faithful to bg1's personality is commendable. I find the scale of it a little bit silly, it makes the grander parts of bg2 feel slightly trivialized. It also feels sort of awkward that bg2's events never call back to siege of dragonspear despite its scale (how could it?)

Also the amount of tone-ruining sarcasm in PC and NPC dialogue in beamdog's writing throughout this and the enhanced editions is sooooooooo crazy insufferable i could die.