I played this for the first time around the time it came out when I was a wee little boy. I never beat it, and so started a cycle of playing the first 10 hours or so every few years until I finally broke through and finished it last year. It's fine, a little underwhelming, but a serviceable crpg released before Bioware decided to heavily deemphasize any rpg elements in their games.

The writing and worldbuilding is a mixed bag, but the DLC stuff in particular felt really really empty and weak. Minor spoiler but favorite part of the game is towards the end where the "enchantments!" kid is just in a room filled with corpses giving you a blank stare, and if you ask him about it he just goes "enchantment." It's trope-y but it's a good bit.

Reviewed on Aug 01, 2023


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