Rahdulan
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Minor combat quirks aside, though, its biggest flaw is mostly just limited production values. The voice acting is often shit, level design is limited (but, again, really no worse than your average Bioware game so I don't understand why critics shit on the linear level design in this yet give Dragon Age and Mass Effect a pass), and the world's not all that interactable (again: Bioware too). But as a fan of the books, I actually thought the game does a really good job of recreating the universe, tone, and style of the books without seeming like they are merely ripping off plot points from the books. I very rarely get invested in video game plots just because they are usually so shit, but this is one of those rare RPGs that I actually stayed up late playing just because I wanted to see what would happen.
Yeah, having finished the game I can definitely agree with you on this. Voice acting in particular is horrible, as if they had no voice directors to give the actors context for the lines they were delivering. Despite that I still find myself liking the game immensely even though the story is a really slow burner taking it's sweet time because of the way they framed the narrative, but when it all clicks together it's just marvelous. Especially how the stories of our two anti-hero protagonists are actually linked together. Mors, man. That's a good character.