To me companion content, romance or not, is what carries this game because the main plot becomes so completely boring by Act 3. It starts well in Act 1, but soon you realize that the mindfuckery from EA is gone.
i still don't understand why they completely removed the EA storyline. that was what drew people in. it's almost catfishing, or false advertisement on larian's part. it's crazy how i still remember that ring that Omeluum gave us in the underdark that disabled the mind flayer parasite from activating. When you speak to those dwarves in the underforge, and allow one of them to connect with your mind,they were unable to, and because of this they attacked you since you were'nt a true soul. In the release version of the game when I got the ring I was like..what? because they changed it into being some kind of resist charm ring.I'm sure Raphael's deal in the original storyline was more bigger than him being a disney villian at the end of act 3. A lot of things got scrapped as if they were still brainstorming the plot of the game. All of that should've got done way before they entered EA. Anyway OP, the reason why things don't make sense is possibly due to the many times they reworked the story and left the threads of the original version in.
