All in all I am confused as to why we are not given a way to remove the tadpole until the last hour of the game.

It is just too shallow a plot-point to have it hanging over us for 90 hours, and I honestly do not think it makes sense. That is a larvae in your damn head, that will destroy you from the inside if you do not find a cure. It makes absolutely no sense running around for 90 hours doing sidequests (or main quests for that matter), while we have a literal parasite in our head. Around the end of act 1 that thing needs to go, and be replaced by us having a personal stake, or an actual reason to care about the Netherbrain and all the other stuff going on.

I just grow increasingly annoyed by the plot denying me the opportunity to get rid of the tadpole while it keeps throwing quests at me and expects me to ignore the most imminent threat of all. Companions stop commenting it, no one seems to care. We have no indication whatsoever when we could turn, and after a certain point we are just forced into RPing that we believe whatever the Emperor is saying. Frustrating.

Honestly they need to sit down and play through it from start to end themselves, they will easily see how many jarring plot points detract from the experience. I can not see how they can have played through it all themselves, and no one picked up on all the inconsistencies and forced plot points?

Forced to have tadpole in head for the entire game (how on earth does it make sense to ignore this?)
Forced to take the Emperors side.
Forced into choose X mindflayer.
And way more..


They have superb plot points and characters to hinge the story on for a rewrite, it can be done, granted Larian is willing to.

All the chosen three have the potential to be really good villains, we just see too little of them, through the entire game imo.
The elderbrain can be intriguing but its place in the plot feels strange. Maybe it should be the boss of act2, then we have an entire powerstruggle on our hands in act3, idk
The tadpole works, but it is way too annoying to not have a solution to that thing by the end of act 1
Raphael, Mizora and Aelyn etc and similar characters can be interwoven into the plot more
The Emperor has potential but they absolutely need to find a place for him where we are not forced under him for literally 95% of the game
Daisy/guardian/dream visitor can be superb if rewritten, but the way this just gels into the Emperor is bad
Shadowlands is great, the city is great, it is all there really.

Last edited by Surge90sf; 17/09/23 12:16 AM.