Well, isn't it the general consensus now?

- I hate that I am forced to run around with no option to remove the tadpole for 90 hours. This is the most baffling to me( if we are all going to RP to the best of our ability, NO ONE, would stop until they find a way to remove that thing).
- Then you are forced into being under the Emperors control for 90 hours, with no choice, despite all the bragging about choice and consequence.

These two are enough to kill all desire I have for a replay.

You see threads of a potential great plot all over the place, but seemingly some incredibly weird design choices pulls it apart rather than making it all come together. The main story needs a rework, I am not going to come back if this is what I can expect from now. This is an RPG, them RP and main story is the most important thing.

I think if you sum up the story in 2 or 3 sentences it sounds like an incredible premise for a story, but the execution is insanely incoherent.

Things that need fixing:
- We need to be able to remove the tadpole at the end of act 1, at the very least in the start of act 2. Like you said, at some point we are just expected to not care about it anymore, which is just insane.
- You are absolutely right about the absolute reveal. This needs to be fixed.
- It needs to be an option to ditch the Emperor. We are allowed to kill all our companions but this guy is forced on us? I just cannot understand.
- No consequence for snorting tadpoles
- Act 3 is all over the place with everything (bugs, plot triggers absent, story non-sensical)
- I don't get how sometimes the pacing of the story is 10 hours between each segments, the game never lets me get invested. I have seen Gortash 3 times this game, how am I supposed to care? Same with the Dark urge, I had like 4-5 story segments in 90 hours, and now it is over? Already?

But honestly I have a giant compendium in a thread in the suggestion and feedback section (so I'm just going to stop here for now), I suggest some of you guys that hang out in the story section check it out, because you make some really good points. I would add some of them but they are spread out over multiple threads.