While all of the party options have a specific role they fill base on their class and skills, it was often the side chatter and one-on-one conversations that really sealed their place among go-to band of adventurers. Throughout the game, I experimented with a few different characters in my party before I eventually settled on a final composition that fit my playstyle. They add a layer of personality to the game that can be off at times, such as a low level enemy yelling “So I kicked him in the head until he was dead nyahahaha” before entering a battle, or absolutely sobering like the moments of quiet where all you have is the narrator slowly describing an event that’s to come. Most of the map is open from the start, it’s all up to you, provided you and the allies you encounter are strong enough to handle the threats that come your way.Īnother big aspect to the storytelling in Baldur’s Gate is party interactions and the narrator. Once you leave the opening area of Candlekeep, side quests add to the overarching story, provide details into the lives of party members and guide you through the many towns and patches of wilderness. Despite the speed at which side quests pile up, these quests rarely feel like simple fetch quests. It’s up to the player to find those areas and most likely pick up more quests along the way.
The “important events” section of the journal is a guiding line but that same journal quickly fills up with quests that take you everywhere. That being said, the game opens slowly but expands quickly. With everything that’s available, I rarely found myself searching for answers that the narrative didn’t provide either through the main story, sidequests or NPC interactions.
The narrative is strong and concise throughout the story. Whether you’re solving small squabbles amongst townspeople, hunting down the source of the iron shortage, or slowly figuring out exactly where you stand in all of this, Baldur’s Gate effortlessly weaves together conflicts ranging from the immediate physical danger of a bandit encounter to the lingering threat of an enigmatic dark hidden magic. There are moments in the story where your character has mysterious dreams and fateful encounters that start vague and small-scale which then slowly, almost imperceptibly, work their way up to being dark premonitions that hint at a more serious, more detrimental past as the current events become more meaningful and consequential. All of these details are vivid and immediately transport you into the high fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms.īaldur’s Gate opens like many high-fantasy RPGs - after choosing a race and class, you are thrust into a mysterious world that initially begins closed off and mundane until one assassination attempt turns into an investigation of the land's mysterious iron shortage and your character's tie to it. I didn’t even mind dying a handful of times because the hand-painted image shown was beautiful in its simplicity.
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However, the colors are vibrant and cutscene artworks are full of detail. While colorful, Baldur's Gate doesn't immediately impress in its outward presentation: the environment is static and character models are generic versions of their character portraits, which in comparison are detailed and unique. The way music can switch between large scale upbeat battle themes to gentle nighttime ballads, as well as the vast dialogue options throughout, this feels like a proper RPG in pretty much every respect. Characters on screen are detailed enough to be discernible without stepping into the era of hyper-realism while the environments take on the homemade, painterly look one might associate with tabletop games.
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Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition relies on the visual and auditory nostalgia of the CRPGs I spent my free time with as a young teen. Despite being a long time fan of RPGs and tabletop games, this Enhanced Edition is my introduction to Baldur’s Gate and it seamlessly melds those experiences.
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