An amazing game with a rich story and a great selection of characters to meet and interact with. The graphics are great, the voice acting is fantastic, and the gameplay truly is digitized D&D in its closest form yet - with all the joys of nat-20s on things that don't matter whatsoever, and nat-1s on things that absolutely do.

Two specific things I appreciate and applaud this game for:

- You can be the bad guy. Not in a cuphead sense where you get a binary option 90% into the game where picking the "be evil" option instantly game-overs you, but you can choose to be a villain, and you get to play the entire game and experience it from the point of view of a bad person. Such a breath of fresh air, and practically demands a second run-through - I cannot fathom why more "open" RPGs don't also offer such a fleshed out and genuine option.

- Sexuality, nudity, and intimacy is treated with full seriousness and care. It was always a bit of cognitive dissonance for me that games are totally fine with ridiculous levels of violence, as seen in Mortal Kombat or Doom, yet the mere act of nudity is avoided or even punished in many cases. It is refreshing for a successful, popular game to include full nude character models and genitalia, and full options for romancing and bedding a majority of the recruitable NPCs in ways that don't feel like they were done as a last minute thought or forced, but genuinely earned through gameplay and through bonding with the characters you fight and explore alongside. Finally it is treated as a normal thing that people do, and I cannot express how good an idea this was.

One thing I will mention however, is the absence of a couple of features I would have liked to see:

- I would have loved to see a return of Divinity: Original Sin 2's magic mirror system. In BG3, it does exist, however you can only customize your player character, and not any of the pre-existing party characters, which is unfortunate. It's just a small inclusion I would have appreciated, as I think Lae'zel would look even more badass with long flowing hair.

- Unless you are playing with friends, there is no option (that I can find) to create more than one character. I would have liked to completely custom make multiple characters of my own to play as, but this is still unavailable without getting friends to help. There is a recruitment system, however the options are premade characters with no customization options, which almost sucks more as we got so close yet still can't have the full choice to make our own party solo.

In conclusion: If you're reading this review, you probably already bought the game because everyone else on planet Earth already shouted its praises to the heavens. And let me assure you, if you're still not certain - it has earnt every bit of it.

An amazing game with a rich story and a great selection of characters to meet and interact with. The graphics are great, the voice acting is fantastic, and the gameplay truly is digitized D&D in its closest form yet - with all the joys of nat-20s on things that don't matter whatsoever, and nat-1s on things that absolutely do. Two specific things I appreciate and applaud this game for: - You can be the bad guy. Not in a cuphead sense where you get a binary option 90% into the game where picking the "be evil" option instantly game-overs you, but you can choose to be a villain, and you get to play the entire game and experience it from the point of view of a bad person. Such a breath of fresh air, and practically demands a second run-through - I cannot fathom why more "open" RPGs don't also offer such a fleshed out and genuine option. - Sexuality, nudity, and intimacy is treated with full seriousness and care. It was always a bit of cognitive dissonance for me that games are totally fine with ridiculous levels of violence, as seen in Mortal Kombat or Doom, yet the mere act of nudity is avoided or even punished in many cases. It is refreshing for a successful, popular game to include full nude character models and genitalia, and full options for romancing and bedding a majority of the recruitable NPCs in ways that don't feel like they were done as a last minute thought or forced, but genuinely earned through gameplay and through bonding with the characters you fight and explore alongside. Finally it is treated as a normal thing that people do, and I cannot express how good an idea this was. One thing I will mention however, is the absence of a couple of features I would have liked to see: - I would have loved to see a return of Divinity: Original Sin 2's magic mirror system. In BG3, it does exist, however you can only customize your player character, and not any of the pre-existing party characters, which is unfortunate. It's just a small inclusion I would have appreciated, as I think Lae'zel would look even more badass with long flowing hair. - Unless you are playing with friends, there is no option (that I can find) to create more than one character. I would have liked to completely custom make multiple characters of my own to play as, but this is still unavailable without getting friends to help. There is a recruitment system, however the options are premade characters with no customization options, which almost sucks more as we got so close yet still can't have the full choice to make our own party solo. In conclusion: If you're reading this review, you probably already bought the game because everyone else on planet Earth already shouted its praises to the heavens. And let me assure you, if you're still not certain - it has earnt every bit of it.