NWN2: The trial (mild spoilers)

I know I sound like a fanboy, but I just had "my" trial in Neverwinter, and
this has to be the finest "30 minutes of show" that I've seen in a RPG.
Sand was brilliant, Torio was excellent. Sand especially is so well written
and spoken -- it's just a really good, immersive part of the game. He does
remind me a little of Hugo Weaving's Elrond. After so many bland, flat and
remarkable characters in almost all RPGs in the past few years, this is
really refreshing.

I've made a save game right before the trial and will "watch" some
different approaches just to get more of this. Actually, I'm not the
type of gamer to play modules or campaigns more than once, but I think I'll
give NWN2 a second go-through when I'm done, just to see how the other NPCs
are written/spoken, since I can't have all of them in my group. (And I want
to do the "evil" part in Neverwinter, and speak to that spider in Duskwood
I couldn't speak to ...).

And a long campaign it is ...

M.

"Michael Vondung" <mvondung.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I know I sound like a fanboy, but I just had "my" trial in Neverwinter,
and
> this has to be the finest "30 minutes of show" that I've seen in a RPG.
> Sand was brilliant, Torio was excellent. Sand especially is so well
written
> and spoken -- it's just a really good, immersive part of the game. He does
> remind me a little of Hugo Weaving's Elrond. After so many bland, flat and
> remarkable characters in almost all RPGs in the past few years, this is
> really refreshing.

I liked the trial (pretty clearly inspired by the Phoenix Wright games, I
thought, but still fun), but that one was one of the few bright parts of the
game, I thought. And while I liked the NPCs, the interaction with them was
rather limited, I thought.