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Mother. Fishcakes.

It did not go well for me. Various mistakes were made. I'll have to go back a couple of hours and think again. And I don't care.

It's bloody brilliant.

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My favorite boss fight in the game. My favorite music in the game. One of my favorite quests in the game. Just brilliant.

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Definitely one of the more enjoyable dungeons in the act and hope was a fun character to be around

but if you went in blind with a bad party with no way out it can be a long reload
Also kind of a sequence break in you happen to find out about the house of hope without learning about orphic hammer, emperor confronts you about your intent to betray him as if you had learned about it from raphael

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I have the song saved on a youtube playlist, listen to it all the time. It's so amazing.

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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!!

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Note that hope can cast:
Divine intervention

Among other things it can get your party long rested, or...

I used it to have her summon her deity's legendary weapon...

which I got her to throw and I picked up as loot. Very naughty, I felt guilty, but didn't give back.

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It is done and with my initial team. I believe the word is 'Epic'.

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https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=876967#Post876967

I already created a topic about House of Hope before, maybe they need to be merged?



Thanks to Larian for Baldurs Gate 3 and the reaction to player feedback
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Originally Posted by OneManArmy
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=876967#Post876967

I already created a topic about House of Hope before, maybe they need to be merged?

This isn't meant to be a strategy thread - just wanted to give feedback about how much I enjoyed it, what happened to me and how I felt. Glad other people have said how much they've enjoyed it too.

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My new standard for every boss in every video game going forward: if they don't give me a recitative rundown of how screwed I am while beating on me, they are second-rate.

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Yep, this encounter is end-game quality in itself. There's a number of them, but this is right up there.

My daughter was helping me and the battle roiled from left to right and round again.

High point was Gale loosing a Disintegrate on a pillar for 150 damage and then counterspelling Raphael like 3 times in a row. I knew how much damage he was going to dish out and counterspell wasn't 100% reliable, so each was a victory in itself.

My only regret was killing Komilla, I should've and could've knocked her out for Hope. But she broke Shadowheart's concentration when the battle was still in question and the Myrmidon's turn was next.

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Originally Posted by Tarlonniel
My new standard for every boss in every video game going forward: if they don't give me a recitative rundown of how screwed I am while beating on me, they are second-rate.

But Good Operetta

(I had to look up the word 'recitative' - I'm annoyed because I'm a G&S fan - what a dullard I am.)

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"I am the very model of a modern major archdevil!" - hmmm. Has potential.

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Originally Posted by Tarlonniel
"I am the very model of a modern major archdevil!" - hmmm. Has potential.

LOL! I mean of course.

"I am the very model of an Arch Duke of Nine Hells, You Know."

xD


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