RPGVault Reviews Throne of Bhaal

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(Originally posted by Darien)

A great review of Throne of Bhaal over at RPGVault takes a look at the expansion back, and offers up some decent screenshots. It also gives a good idea of how the expansion complements Shadows of Amn when the game is played again from the beginning.

The Throne of Bhaal storyline takes you from the pocket plane to the city of Saradush, which is under siege by a Fire Giant Bhaalspawn named Yaga-Shura and his army. You learn that he is almost invincible, and naturally, the critical path involves finding out how to defeat him and doing so. In the fashion of Baldur's Gate and especially of Shadows of Amn, this plotline is interwoven with a number of concurrent side quests that involve various locations in the city such as the sewers, a prison and the palace as well as sundry characters such as the paranoid city leader and a deceitful merchant. These quests also tend to have multiple or complex steps. The result is that while there is a relatively linear critical path, there's always lots else to do so the game ends up playing in a manner that feels far less so.

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