General story/writing:
Game is saved by the "evil" characters which are well written and actually use their brain. You are not safe however from the sassy, wise black-woman with american accent stereotype, or the lesbian transgender couple shoved down your throat as the good guys (same as Valerie the mid being fawned over as beautiful in the previous game).
Overall story is okay and offer a lot of possible overall slightly actually different outcomes branching that could be considered "best" depending on how you roleplay it.

Game mechanics :
Absolutely garbage, and that's a consequence of using a D20+Rest system and everything being about either :
>Meta-gaming the "test" that you will be required to take to stack modifiers, making it gamey and tedious
>Reliant on luck, encouraging save scumming
>Either you put the difficulty to trivial or you are punished for not save-scumming metagaming.
>Witholding a lot of information about the consequence of choices, resulting in punishing players for not metagaming
>Class system is tedious, offer a lot of options but most of those are "wrong" choices. You'll end up theorycrafting your build in advance instead of making spot choices with the information available to you
>What works mechanically doesn't thematically, and vice versa.
>Overall wide disconnect between game mechanics and story.


Recommendation however is to install mods such as bags of tricks/isekai class to take the piss about the world and having say, your OP character and his harem rather than playing it seriously.

Overall the game is wide but shallow, most of the play time will come from reloading/turn based "gameplay" (erk) if you play on higher difficulty and you are actively punished for not-metagaming. Very different from actual tactical RPG, such as the original dragon age for example. This one is closer to a very long checklist that was made for you and that you have to clickously check dialogue by dialogue, skill check save scummed by skill check save scummed, grease exploit ecounter by grease exploit ecounter.

Also :
Californian Spyware installed on my machine despite me being European. Lawyering up for a refund and breaching ELA on top of breaching GDPR.

General story/writing: Game is saved by the "evil" characters which are well written and actually use their brain. You are not safe however from the sassy, wise black-woman with american accent stereotype, or the lesbian transgender couple shoved down your throat as the good guys (same as Valerie the mid being fawned over as beautiful in the previous game). Overall story is okay and offer a lot of possible overall slightly actually different outcomes branching that could be considered "best" depending on how you roleplay it. Game mechanics : Absolutely garbage, and that's a consequence of using a D20+Rest system and everything being about either : >Meta-gaming the "test" that you will be required to take to stack modifiers, making it gamey and tedious >Reliant on luck, encouraging save scumming >Either you put the difficulty to trivial or you are punished for not save-scumming metagaming. >Witholding a lot of information about the consequence of choices, resulting in punishing players for not metagaming >Class system is tedious, offer a lot of options but most of those are "wrong" choices. You'll end up theorycrafting your build in advance instead of making spot choices with the information available to you >What works mechanically doesn't thematically, and vice versa. >Overall wide disconnect between game mechanics and story. Recommendation however is to install mods such as bags of tricks/isekai class to take the piss about the world and having say, your OP character and his harem rather than playing it seriously. Overall the game is wide but shallow, most of the play time will come from reloading/turn based "gameplay" (erk) if you play on higher difficulty and you are actively punished for not-metagaming. Very different from actual tactical RPG, such as the original dragon age for example. This one is closer to a very long checklist that was made for you and that you have to clickously check dialogue by dialogue, skill check save scummed by skill check save scummed, grease exploit ecounter by grease exploit ecounter. Also : Californian Spyware installed on my machine despite me being European. Lawyering up for a refund and breaching ELA on top of breaching GDPR.