Baldur’s Gate 3 Review (Xbox Series S)

Baldur’s Gate 3 Review, is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Review Pros:

• Stunning graphics.
• 137.8GB download size.
• 1000 Gamerscore.
• Action RPG gameplay.
• Official Dungeons And Dragons licensed game.
• Nudity option – on/off.
• Text settings – subtitles, show speaker icon, text background, background opacity, and dialogue text size slider.
• Colorblind support.
• Accessibility options – longer active search hold, center cinematic audio, force mono audio, overhead text size slider, explicit options, and camera shake.
• Sensitivity sliders for each stick.
• Five difficulties – Explorer, balanced, tactician, honor, and custom.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play and on the loading screens.
• Fast loading times.
• In-game cutscenes, FMV, and player interactions.
• Two character choices – create your custom character or choose from the group of characters – Astarion, Lae’zel, Gale, Shadowheart, Wyll, Karlach, and the Dark Urge.
• Your character can identify as male, female, nonbinary, and other.
• In-depth character creator – origin, race (Tiefling/Drow/Human/Githyanki/Dwarf/Half-Elf/Halfling/Gnome/Dragonborn/Half-Orc/Elf), Class (Barbarian/Bard/Cleric/Druid/Fighter/Monk/Paladin/Ranger/Rogue/Sorcerer/Warlock/Wizard), subclass, background, abilities, skills, and appearance. Along with your name.
• Choose a guardian to fight alongside you – randomize, race, sub-race, body type, voice, face, and basic face/hair/scar settings.
• Enchanting soundtrack.
• All the cinematics are of a movie quality.
• Interactions and some actions require a skill check, this is done by rolling a dice and adding any modifiers you have to try and match/beat the shown amount.
• It uses a lot of the Dungeons and Dragons 5e tools et and phrasing but in an inviting way.
• The narrator of your story is like the DM (dungeon master) who narrates and describes events and outcomes as you play.
• Save and load when you want.
• Interactive points will be highlighted when hovered over.
• A full 3D world with 360-degree camera control.
• Running activity log in the corner shows at all times.
• Online Co-op is drop-in and drop-out.
• Play how you want.
• Multiple choice encounters and questions.
• You play the game like a typical 3D action game but you can click the left stick and make it more like a point-and-click game.
• Such powerful performances from the amazing cast of memorable characters.
• The world’s and locations just look amazing.
• It is a visual treat.
• Recruit party members and you control them in battle, you can also swap between characters when roaming around.
• Earned exp pops up above your head.
• Round-based combat is where you can move, use an item, and do an action.
• Radical menus are used for a lot of the menus, especially the combat ones.
• Seamless transitions between cutscenes and gameplay.
• Earn/unlock/buy new dice.
• As you travel around the environment can help/hinder you like being in deep water or up high.
• Handy right-click button to highlight all interactive points in the area.
• Waypoints act as fast travel points.
• To regain health and some supplies you can take a full or short rest, one gives all health, and the other only half your health.
• You can share initiatives with party members when in combat.
• Earn EXP and level up to get a stats increase, new passives, or spells. Your party members are dealt with by you aswel.
• The campsite is where you can fully heal, replenish spells, talk with characters increase your relationship level, and organize who is going out on adventures with you.
• At any point, you can teleport to your camp through the menu.
• The map uncovers as you explore.
• Aside from enemies, there are environmental hazards.
• Travelers chest is your storage and you can send things there no matter where you are.
• The journal stores all quests, inspirational dialogues, and tutorials.
• To full rest you have to own all the needed food and supplies otherwise you have to do a half/partial rest.
• If you ever wanted a digital Dungeons And Dragons experience this is it and you can do it solo or with friends.
• The game helps the Tabletop game as it can inspire ideas and give insight into how a DM can work.
• Anything can happen at any given time.
• It has a strong grip on you so you are left thinking about the game long after you turn it off.
• Every encounter is different even replaying an encounter through save scumming (reloading saves) can be different.
• Group and ungroup at any time.
• Find many secret areas and locations.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Review Cons:

• Cannot rebind controls.
• No random name generator.
• The game never actually pauses when pressing start.
• A lot to take in and for a long time especially if you’ve not played Dungeons and Dragons 5e or a game in this genre before.
• Slowdown happens in places.
• The game stutters when autosaving.
• It’s not always clear when you are breaking the law or what characters can see you doing.
• No way to speed up enemy turns in combat.
• The action camera shots can be quite bad.
• Any sort of precision can be tricky.
• You don’t always get great feedback on combat.
• The list of quests gets long and a nightmare to manage or even understand half the time.

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Baldur’s Gate 3:

Official website.

Developer: Larian Studios

Publisher: Larian Studios

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