Hello, made this account for only one post. The last time I did this was for the Mass Effect series ending, I want to start by saying I doubt a dev will read this and they owe me nothing. They deserve their money and their awards, and from what I’ve played (most of act 1 including all the side quests) this game is at minimum a 9/10. I would actually give it the 10.
With that said, I can’t complete it or even recommend it for me it ends in Act1. My story is similar to a few I’ve read on here, came to look for a fix to a minor bug and saw this thread. Karlach was the only companion I didn’t instantly friendzone, she had faced literal hell as a slave and despite it was optimistic and genuinely loved life. I liked her immediately, I’m glad I broke my no spoilers rule because honestly I don’t want my escapism to be as miserable as my reality.
Before I get accused of being a flake who can’t handle anything but a Disney ending let’s just say the last few years have been pretty rough (I doubt I’m alone) I worked through the pandemic trying to keep as many under my care alive as possible, we were doing well until a government policy that undermined all our preventative measures. Over half of us were off sick leaving me and a handful of other staff to try and manage. Everyone I sent to hospital died as even the big ones were fairly overwhelmed and the people I care for have such specialist needs the skeleton crew at the hospitals had no chance to do anything. In the end we were all but ordered to just do our best in the community.
I had to watch many I cared for die, I used my phone so their relatives could see their last moments as they couldn’t visit and then comforted them and the staff I had under me. Then I would go home and weep, this went on for a while.
At the time I had a mate with a tumour who was just recently married, a top bloke who was one of those jerks who was simultaneously very good looking, sporty and was so kind you couldn’t even be annoyed at him rolling a natural 20 in genetics. Except he didn’t and the tumour got him, I often wished I could trade places with him, he loved life so much and I was a husk at this point. But that’s not how reality works.
What’s the point of this self indulgent rant on a damn gaming forum you ask?
Well as painful as these memories are I accepted them and kept going, such is life. Life is unfair, deal with it.
I don’t however live in a world where people can be resurrected, or deities actually interact with you, or where basic potions have properties any doctor or scientist would consider magic, or actual wish spells, or true polymorph etc.
This is already long enough so I’ll stop, my point is even if you ignore all the points in game you were given opportunities to potentially fix her heart and told no there are options within the lore that could easily do better then being forced to fight until you die of exhaustion facing an arch demon in her own realm / enslaved.
I’m hoping that this is just cut content and eventually I can finish this but as it stands I’m back to getting home opening up the game, looking at the menu screen for a while then closing it.
If these options are really intended and she is supposed to be a ‘tragic character’ that didn’t earn her tragedy then great, you got me.
I guess this is mostly aimed at those who think all this drama is hilarious and buy the ‘it’s their narrative, cry more’ angle. But this game was sold to me under Larian’s reputation and the idea that choices matter.
TL;DR The only choice I wanted to make I couldn’t and I don’t understand from a role playing perspective why. GG.
