Seriously though. I bought the game based on all the praise and I was very happy with it for the first 10-15 hours, but past that it's been a chore to finish.
The itemization is truly awful and unrewarding. There's no loot hunt to speak of because of this. Items are generic garbage and you have to spend tons of time reloading quicksaves at big chests, if you want to get something even remotely useful, especially late game, or you have to spend hours with the clunky crafting system.
The story comes in these huge lumps of dialogues, followed by huge lumps of boring monster clearing. And I mean really freaking boring, even on the highest difficulty the most difficult thing is to wait for the enemy turn to end. Jesus.
On top of all this garbage, I spent probably hours walking around, because they couldn't bother putting up more teleport points. I guess that's one way to make the game longer. Damn.
The game dragged on way to long, way past the point where combat felt fun and fights engaging. The only reason I finished it is because the story by itself is actually well written and interesting. It's a shame the game has no pace and proper narrative structure.
All in all, I don't think I'll buy another Larian game without properly researching and twitch watching it.
