Story: Starts fine and then becomes cringe. Even the fine part is debatable. Nothing feels immersive, why do the goblin just allow you to walk in their camp when you don't use the true soul authority? Why do the gyth do the same? The immigrants are kind of assholes that overstayed their welcome but I'm suppose to "feel for them" - I don't get any satisfactory way to deal with them in a game of choices.

In the second act, where I am now I just witness the most cringe "captain planet" type summoning by the 3 main villains. It was all over the top and stupid. Even small reactions from people don't feel real, sometime people need to be terrified but they are not, or angry but they are not. To their credit, this was also how DOS2 was. While I liked DOS2 and loved the builds and encounters that game had huge flaws in story and human interactions.

Dialogue is awful, is incredibly modern. You see terms like racist for instance, that is a modern term or Karlach using f**k a lot.

There is this lesbian couple that I told them to not be in the camp but they did anyway and my character is just ok with it, why even give you an option to say no?

By the end of second act the story is just boring. I see no great reveal, no intense action on act 3, I'm not even sure why I care about the march on Baldurs Gate.

There is a scene where the lesbian avatar of Selune is held by Myrkul but because Shadowheart drops her spear and lends a hand poof the spell is broken. This is incredibly bad writing, no matter the excuses it was bad and it was only a lesbian power fantasy made by incompetent writers.

Gameplay: I tend to like the DOS2 turn based style but I do not like 5'th edition rules, give me back 3.5. Encounter design is well thought, I like how much work was put in to having nice challenging fights and they seem to have learned a bit from DOS2. All my critiques to gameplay are from 5'th edition.

Woke stuff:

• Modern day diversity that you find just in London but is all over. On top of that you have multiple species. There is no identity to anything, elves are just long eared humans. Elves and dwarves all now have the same features are human races - you find a duergar that is african looking, no grey skin but brown and with african traits. Why??

** Lots of gay NPCs

*** My character feels forced, there is an instance where my character starts looking seductive to Gale. Why have that? I don't want to romance Gale, I never made any attempt at it. I can understand to some extent having Gale be gay??? despite talking about women but why is my character behaving gay?

**** Pronouns.

***** Haven't seen it yet but I understand there is a drag queen as well.

****** Forcing you to make "correct choices". I took Karlach before Wyll so Wyll shows up in camp trying to kill her. I told him to f**k off, he just tried to kill a companion. You had multiple companions telling you to take him on as a companion, the guy literally tried to murder on of them and all they could say was to complain on why did I not offer him to be a companion. Karlach tells me that several times -- why was this even on the table.

This is not a medieval fantasy setting, this is a modern day progressive western ideal with magic and swords.

Progression: At level 3-4 you kill a hag, ogre magi, beholder, drow, minotaurs, gyth and duegars. At 8-9 I defeat an avatar of Myrkul with the help of the avatar of feminist frequency but then I'm suppose to fight normal people and are even more difficult?

Fun, engaging fights. We get Jahiera and I understand Misc later on - I do like memberberries. Shadowheart is surprisingly nice and her backstory is cool. Gale could have been nice but now he just seems gay and lame. Astarion reminds me of Milo but got old fast.

Story: Starts fine and then becomes cringe. Even the fine part is debatable. Nothing feels immersive, why do the goblin just allow you to walk in their camp when you don't use the true soul authority? Why do the gyth do the same? The immigrants are kind of assholes that overstayed their welcome but I'm suppose to "feel for them" - I don't get any satisfactory way to deal with them in a game of choices.

In the second act, where I am now I just witness the most cringe "captain planet" type summoning by the 3 main villains. It was all over the top and stupid. Even small reactions from people don't feel real, sometime people need to be terrified but they are not, or angry but they are not. To their credit, this was also how DOS2 was. While I liked DOS2 and loved the builds and encounters that game had huge flaws in story and human interactions.

Dialogue is awful, is incredibly modern. You see terms like racist for instance, that is a modern term or Karlach using f**k a lot.

There is this lesbian couple that I told them to not be in the camp but they did anyway and my character is just ok with it, why even give you an option to say no?

By the end of second act the story is just boring. I see no great reveal, no intense action on act 3, I'm not even sure why I care about the march on Baldurs Gate.

There is a scene where the lesbian avatar of Selune is held by Myrkul but because Shadowheart drops her spear and lends a hand poof the spell is broken. This is incredibly bad writing, no matter the excuses it was bad and it was only a lesbian power fantasy made by incompetent writers.

Gameplay: I tend to like the DOS2 turn based style but I do not like 5'th edition rules, give me back 3.5. Encounter design is well thought, I like how much work was put in to having nice challenging fights and they seem to have learned a bit from DOS2. All my critiques to gameplay are from 5'th edition.

Woke stuff:

• Modern day diversity that you find just in London but is all over. On top of that you have multiple species. There is no identity to anything, elves are just long eared humans. Elves and dwarves all now have the same features are human races - you find a duergar that is african looking, no grey skin but brown and with african traits. Why??

** Lots of gay NPCs

*** My character feels forced, there is an instance where my character starts looking seductive to Gale. Why have that? I don't want to romance Gale, I never made any attempt at it. I can understand to some extent having Gale be gay??? despite talking about women but why is my character behaving gay?

**** Pronouns.

***** Haven't seen it yet but I understand there is a drag queen as well.

****** Forcing you to make "correct choices". I took Karlach before Will so Will shows up in camp trying to kill her. I told him to f**k off, he just tried to kill a companion. You had multiple companions telling you to take him on as a companion, the guy literally tried to murder on of them and all they could say was to complain on why did I not offer him to be a companion. Karlach tells me that several times -- why was this even on the table.

This is not a medieval fantasy setting, this is a modern day progressive western ideal with magic and swords.

Progression: At level 3-4 you kill a hag, ogre magi, beholder, drow, minotaurs, gyth and duegars. At 8-9 I defeat an avatar of Myrkul with the help of the avatar of feminist frequency but then I'm suppose to fight normal people and are even more difficult?

Fun, engaging fights. We get Jahiera and I understand Misc later on - I do like memberberries. Shadowheart is surprisingly nice and her backstory is cool. Gale could have been nice but now he just seems gay and lame. Astarion reminds me of Milo but got old fast.