I played Beast of Winter at a much higher level than recommended and took Vatnir with me, which was a boon for the fights in the White Void : a lot of mobs there are Spirits and Vatnir's automatic leveling gives him the Dismissal spell, which kills those enemies in one strike. It makes a lot of the fights a lot easier.

I have thought of buying this game recently.

Does 'game of the year' really mean much when folks haphazardly throw it at pretty much everything these days though? Same for calling things 'legendary', 'iconic', 'masterpiece', 'hidden gem', etc. Words and phrases like that lose their meaning when they're tossed around so frequently :C

Great graphics lol. Not worth playing

1 hour review is crazy

People don't want to admit that the plot for bg3 is a literal repeat of DAO

BG2 is a wonderful game. I really enjoy the story and the characters. The voice acting cast is fabulous. This game was the best technology generally available in 2000. The game is proof a great game overcomes "dated" graphics.

purposefully getting lost in this game has been amazing, moon-upon-thoss was the third town i visited and learning everything i did just by experiencing the game was perfect.

Totally disagree that the archetypes should have been classes

Moonstone was a great Amiga game. Initially what I thought this was going to be..

Short answer: YES! It is worth playing. It's better than most of the current crap out there. Pro tip: Try the many wonderful mods for this game!

I played this game on release and I had a bit better impression of it. Most problems like lack of meaningful choices does not bother me because I'm fine with linear stories as long as I'm only going to play it once. The Fetch Quests were mostly just reasons for the player character to visit a special area and see the story play out there. Wile it is inspired by D&D it is also based on the old Might and Magic games. At least the magic system seem to be. A lot of the classes seem to be quite unique also, with the fire mage being a melee specialist that buff himself and others with fire magic. Finally, I liked the low and gritty fantasy meets Lovecraft esthetics. Yea, the fact that the main solution to eldritch horrors seem to be to just kill them... Well, thats RPGs and D&D in particular for ya. I thought the writing was good for what it was. The scenario is believable, a stranded hero on a mission to save the girl are stuck on an accursed island and discover that the only way out is through. After finding the girl she and him decides after their successes that whatever this is is bigger than them both and that they have been successful at fighting it so far. The plan is not to kill the big bad though. It is to stop whatever ritual is summoning him before he arrives. I have never played moonring however so I dont know what you are comparing it to.

I doubt it

Your reviews always crack me up! In all the good ways. I love your argumentation, writing and humor. It never fails to be informative and right up my alley when it comes to the (obviously good) taste in games. Keep up the stellar work. Liked, sub'ed (for a while) and spreading the word!

1:01:00 I guess it's just a script error, but you gave a score of 9.4 for the Secondary Mechanics and the summary of "Bad". Or was that supposed to be a 90s kid "bad"?

Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 are better games than 3! The first two games have a better plot, another level of music, and a far superior living world feel, taking you to kingdoms, territories, and politics that make you feel alive while giving you freedom of exploration through a world map!!! I could go on and on giving you reasons to say that this isn't based on nostalgia, just the perception of superior quality, but now I have a child of my own to raise, so that is it!!!

I had a blast with Skald, and never heard of Moonring. If you say it's even better - I absolutely have to check it out!

24:10 looks great, what game is that from?

This game rules but not having even a one-time respec option isn't difficult it's just a waste of time. Oh you have a job and family? Sounds like you're too much of a pussy for a game this hardcore then. Give me a break, thank God for cheat engine

Dang you for not loving a game I love! Also dang you for making fair points and criticisms about it! 😜 But in all seriousness, great video as always, I still had a blast with this game, so I am glad I played it before I saw this video lol. But, I am also starved for Lovecraftian games. I should try Moonring after I finish BG3.

I loved the bg series from the original onwards but SOD was absolute cancer

hell yeah dude! Love ye olde reviews!

Is there anything like these 2 games that I can play on my Android phone?

I finished the game in about 30 hours and can't safely recommend it if you're a spoiled CRPG fan like miyself who will complain when a game doesn't give you enough roleplay choices or interactions with the world. Too much stuff is missing in the base release. Some of which can be fixed, like class/spell balance or UI or lack of content in second half of the game. But what's the point of the "factions" tab in the journal? Currently there's no such mechanic in the game and I'm not sure the dev can add it at this point, it would have to be tightly integrated with the plot and game world for it to actually make sense. Also I don't get why do we need these first person dungeon crawler sections where you can't properly interact with anything and can only move in four directions. Not sure it can be helped unless the dev makes a whole new campaign. Also I noticed that many skill checks don't lead to anything meaningful and only give you false choices that don't even give xp or meager reward. And the writing is not that great, it's just OK, isn't rewarding enough in and of itself. All in all, not a big fan of this game, it's not bad per se and is very playable but I wouldn't recommend it blindly to anyone, you can get disappointed just like myself.

Gorgeous looking game. But this made me give Moonring a higher priority in the backlog.

Honestly, fully agree with you about Character Progression

this has extinguished my enthusiasm for this game.

This game looks like Winged Exemplar

Appreciate you, man!

I love the vibe and feel that this art style conveys :)

"Chez" is normally pronounced like "shay", unless Chez Kane pronounces it differently. It's french, I think.

Ye Old Entertainment review just dropped.

haha! You used a fashion reference! 🤭

I dread the day you‘ll post a 2 minute review!

Well the C64 color palette is noteworthy.

Hey thanks for this. I stumbled on this vid randomly and have just downloaded Moonring. I played Ultima 4 back in the late 80's for years on a Commodore 64. I got absolutely nowhere with it. Not a single quest completed, not a single virtue raised. Why? Because my copy was from a friend who lived far away and it came with no manual, no guides, and no internet at the time to look up anything at all. My friend was no help as he had never played it. Plus I didn't even know how to go on the old pre-internet message boards to get help/advice/hints which was how I learned years later most players who beat the game were able to do so. Even if I had known how to go on message boards it would have made no difference because I knew no one with a modem. Plus I lived in a very rural area with no one around me that knew anything about PCs. So what did I do? I played it like it was GTA before GTA was even a concept. Just randomly running into villages & towns swinging on anything & everything. Getting destroyed by the town guards, dying, or barely escaping with my life only to get poisoned in the wilderness fighting snakes, etc. And I did this for hundreds if not thousands of hours. Sooo for a long time now out of nostalgia and regret at never having properly played Ultima 4 I have wanted _something_ kinda like it but with a little bit better graphics & gameplay. Hopefully this is it. So thanks again and subbed.

Can't wait to try this game!

I only half agree with Rick's statement that people don't care about game music only the game. I would argue sometimes the reason one is so into the game itself, which one may not even realize if it's sub-consciously, is because of the music. Music sets the tone of the area they're in and actions that it requires to progress. A couple of my many honorable mentions Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver or the original Deus Ex

This is a cool game but is totally different from BG3 i would not even compare them.

It shows it's age a lot, but they're both incredible, even on Playstation I had a grand time with these games.

this is a very good review and it made me download the demo on steam to take a look at it myself. I wonder why I've never heard of your channel before.

I disagree that the best games are thise where you use your imagination. If you didn't like the second Castlevania it's because it was poorly made. Period. Baldur's Gate, God of War, etc. those games are good snd immersive being triple A's only because they are well made.

DAO is fantastic. Too bad the sequels couldn't live up to it, because they had such a solid foundation in Origins.

Sub and Like for including Icewind Dale, one of my beloved og games and the soundtrack by Jeremy Soule is just amazing at evoking the feelings of cold and danger althou my favorite piece is "Easthaven in Peace"

Great game!