I feel there is alot of replayability for seeing more content, but without an ending that resolves anything and with so much of the content being arbitrary RNG. There is alot of replayability but the dearth of resolutions and certainty that difference choices will actually lead to experiencing the different consequences in companion dialogue, wains desire to replay it despite the replayability? does that make sense?
As for tadpoles, I've seen in screenshots the people who eat all the tadpoles have weird faces and nah
I don't think the weird faces come from tadpole consumption. At some point,
the Emperor offers to make you partly Illithid at the cost of some physical deformation while not becoming a Mindflayer entirely
.
So AFAIK, you could eat all the tadpoles with zero consequences.
