After much hand-wringing, complaining, and grumbling, I’ve finally turned my back on to return to the game I really want to play – . I might go back to Starfield one day, when there are fewer excellent games coming out. With every gaming boom comes a bust, so I’m sure th꧙ere will be a time in the next few years when we’ll see a schedule less packed with time-consuming triple-A games. But that time is not now, and I’d rather spend the little free time I have playing things that really en💜rapture me.

When I stepped away from Baldur’s Gate 3 to live out my space fantasy, I’d been in the middle of Act 2, wandering my way through the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:spooky Shadow-Cursed Lands. I can’t lie – while the game isn’t scary, it got creepy enough in places that I recoiled a bit and needed a break. There are laughing, creepy kids. There are undead nurses treating dead bodies. The whole map is shrouded in darkness and the distinct aura of evil, and it’s freaky. I’ve mustered up enough courage to finish most of the plotlines in the game, and have finally, finally, managed to get🎃 to Moonrise Towers. I’m excited to help cure the Shadow-Cursed Lands of its curse and make it a normal, nice, picturesque place again.

Related
What’s The De💜al With Underwear In Baldur’s Gate 3?

Baldur's Gate 3 lets you mix and match underwear, but that often leads to them becওom༒ing magical shapeshifting undies

The only problem is that I keep getting my ass kicked. I’ve gathered all my allies, who are happy and willing to aid me in my fight against that asshole Ketheric Thorm. Jaheira and the Harpers, in particular, are raring to go. The moment I got t﷽o the tower, I snuck around the side of the castle and set my party up to flank the enemies on the first floor. Unfortunately, it looked like Jaheira and her Harpers started the fighting without me – I could hear the sounds of screaming and dying behind the closed doors I’d snuck up to. Opening the doors revealed a blood-drenched scene, with countless servants of the Absolute beating the shit out of my allies, whose bodies were littering the ground.

I got to work, dispatching the enemies left behind. It wasn’t that hard, because I’m playing on the easiest difficulty. But 🍸Jaheira is lying dead on the ground, and because she wasn’t in my party, I couldn’t revive her. I know she can be recruited as a companion, and because I know this, I want to do it. I want badly to save everyone I can, to keep everybody alive and well and happy. So I save my game, and I try again. I go through the front this time, to see if I can protect Jaheira better, only to see her launching herself recklessly through my swirling Cloud of Daggers to get towards enemies. She’s throwing herself at everything she can fight, literally, which isn’t ideal considering she really doesn’t have that much HP.

I realise that short of getting her to join my party and therefore depriving myself of an extra ally in my fights, there’s really no way to keep her alive. She’s doomed to die by her AI, or perhaps it’s just her total dedication to wrecking the Absolute and its followers. (I like to pretend there’s always a story reason when it comes to Baldur’s Gate 3, since there usually is). I’m not willing to spend hours redoing the same fight over and over in an attempt to stop her from heroically sacrificing herself to stop the Absolute, even if it means I’ll never get to see where her story goes. As much as I’d like to see it, I simply cannot put myself through those gruelling battles more than absolutely necessary. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sorry Jaheira, you were cool and all, but ♍I’m not going to be penalised for you💮r bad battle strategy.

Next: The Shadow-Cursed Lands Make Baldur's Gate 3 A Halloween Game