I don’t even really know where to start with this one. My intention is not to write a classic review (for a classic RPG) that covers the individual aspects of the game. You know, story, characters, progression, combat, all that juicy stuff. I’ve shifted away from this format in an attempt to focus on how a game affects me, how it makes me feel. Take Wall World, for example. This little indie gem got its hooks into me so hard that I couldn’t stop playing – a feeling I hadn’t experienced in a long while. But how do you do that for a game so expansive and so beloved as Baldur’s Gate 3? Because I do have feelings, though a hot take they might be and very different from Wall World, and I don’t just want to blurt them out. I’d like to weave a narrative, encase you in a web of connected threads. Threads that convey my feelings, my experience, starting with the honeymoon phase, covering the disagreements and fights between me and the game, and, finally, the reunion.
Thing is: I’m not much of an author, so… I’ll have to wing it. I just hope you fail a perception check and actually come out convinced of the opposite.
The Gameslinger 