Greetings! Although I have long appreciated the swords and sorcery genre, this has been my first time dipping into the DnD lore and Larian's treatment of it.
I'll keep it short and say that, despite some nice settings, engaging companions and solid in-world exploration, I've really been taken aback by the tone and major plotlines of BG3. It's like the game cannot decide what it is trying to be. Is this a fantasy epic? Is it science fiction? Is it a silly cartoon? It seems to depend on what you are doing at the time.
Regardless, I pressed on until finishing out Act 2 where I was treated to the visage of
The absurdity of that sight mixed with the solemnity that the narration tried to respond with felt like satire. The dialogue continued on to explain that
three literal gods needed to recruit three cartoon supervillains to control said brain because...reasons?
I stared in blank befuddlement. It did not help that immediately afterward
my guardian revealed themselves to being a Mind Flayer
who proceeded to spout five paragraphs worth of exposition that made just about as much sense.
So, all of that leads to my question: Are the tone and machinations of BG3 natural products of the source material in DnD? Or is this kind of storyline more of a Larian product?
Thanks, and Cheers.
