Basically I was rattled by all the warnings, exactly as the game wanted me to be...
...and I didn't know about the Taps of Full Rest, that I rushed to the portal and didn't have my full arsenal of spells anyway. Raphael is SO SO VERY ANGRY, it rattled me further!! The voice acting and character animation is just excellent. So when the fight started with the new music and THE FLIPPING SONG, I was so suprised, all I could do was gawp (and swear) in amazment, and I made terrible panicky choices with what few resources I had left!! And so the world ended! xD
This is such excellent storytelling, using Game as a medium to it's greatest advantage. Joyous stuff!!
I'm now working my way back through in a *slightly* more sensible away, although I haven't swapped my team:-
Me (Druid), Karlach, Wyll, Astarion and obviously Hope.
We shall see.
But it's one of those moments in any narrative medium - books, film, games, anything - where your first experience of it will stay with you forever. Feel so grateful that it wasn't spoiled for me.
I flipping LOVE this game!!