The first time I played this, honestly I wasn't interested in it and let it fall to the wayside for other games.

Years later I came back to it out of boredom, and I'm so glad that I did. This game is so much fun, and is unique in a way that's hard to describe. The classes are varied and enjoyable enough that they’re all fun to play— which is not the case in a lot of games for me tbh. (Magick Archer is, of course, my favorite). The DLC (Dark Arisen) is honestly one of the best expansions I've played, it feels like it added so much to the endgame content and a good amount of challenge. I think I've gone back and done Bitterblack Isle's quests at least fifteen or twenty times at this point. I'm only missing a few achievements, so I might as well 100% the game-- but while that may feel like a slog in other games, it would be a delight for this one.

5/5, I don't even care that the graphics aren't the best (it is an older game at this point) and some of the lore is kind of ambiguous to the point of causing fights with its fans, I just love it that much. Jank and all.

Combat is really fun, story is interesting, but its execution very mediocre, classes kinda boring.

Romance system absolutely horrible. The game potentially contains literal pedophilia being "forced" onto player. When I say literal, I mean literal child character is involved. But there are also at least two, that look to be in early teens that the game wants to pretend to be older. I've looked up opinions of people and for the most part the comment sections on reddit were even more disturbing.

The gameplay is engaging and fun, but these features left me feeling disgusted af and if I knew about these things, I wouldn't have bought the game and now it's too late to refund.

If you wonder why I didn't stop playing it's because I like to get achievements and I believe I can fully avoid the disturbing content now that I know about it :-)

You can wife up Mercedes. That alone makes this game a solid 8/10