I refuse to believe this is a product that Larian was proud in getting out the door. It’s clearly an unfinished game that they just recently added a semi satisfying epilogue to. I did hear about the financial struggles and crunch time, but it was under development for years. I see now that they have much more in store and that they’re correcting their mistakes but this feels like an Early Access Part 2 situation.
I've been in the same state of denial until I read the recent
interview with the lead writers. I, too, thought noway this is the actual ending and the reason for it clearly must be time pressure.
Turns out, there is no reason.
Saying this Emperor was always planned? I can't believe it. This is just PR talk.
From the MtG cards (and leaks) it's pretty clear that the Emperor was the mindflayer big bad. There's a reason you fight him as the (pen)ultimate boss if you side against him.
An unsupervised child in a candy store is the perfect way to describe Larian's writing style, not just in act 3 but throughout the game.
That pretty much sums it up even for the Original Sins games. I was pretty sceptic when BG3 was announced but honestly the early access was showing some promise. Unfortunately, we may never know.
There's also the elephant in the room that has to be addressed at some point. This game attracted the dating simulator players as can be seen by the forum topics (much like Dragon Age earlier). I think in the future a lot of resources will be put into appeasing them and the overall writing will take a bigger hit. They will also gatekeep and form a guard to any criticism Larian receives. I am hoping for another 5e game from Larian, hopefully NWN3, but they gotta be careful.
