![]() ![]() Unfortunately, a well-planned raid on Castle Neverwinter where the creatures were being held has seen them released throughout the city. Your character is recruited by Lady Aribeth, a noble Elvish Paladin, to track down four mythical beasts that could hold the necessary ingredients to craft a cure. The Wailing Death is a horrible plague that has brought Neverwinter to its knees, leaving the city reeling as its several districts have descended into chaos. While the Switch version doesn’t offer all the flexibility of the PC version in terms of fan-created mods and adventures, there are still a few exciting tales I look forward to coming back to.Īvoiding the classic trope of starting your adventure in a tavern, Neverwinter Nights has you craft an adventurer newly arrived in the eponymous town with hopes of helping the city’s officials find a cure for the Wailing Death. To get the best grasp of this edition, I took to the base campaign so I could find out what I had missed. The Enhanced Edition offers players a variety of campaigns to engage in, whether you are new to the title like myself, or a veteran that never dabbled in the continued support BioWare has offered. While I know this Enhanced Edition couldn’t possibly escape what made it of its era, Beamdog has put in a lot of effort to modernize this classic title. This time around, getting this exciting entry in the Forgotten Realms’ many tales on Switch offered an exciting opportunity for me. ![]() It was easy to get lost for hours in the various towns, numerous character interactions, or kobold-filled dungeons that made up the adventures that were synonymous with “tabletop RPG.” Neverwinter Nights first launched for PC in June 2002 and I did not have the system to run it, so I sadly missed out. ![]() If you can look past the shortcomings of the dated presentation and lacking polish, you’ll see why this is one of the most highly regarded RPGs.The classic isometric titles from BioWare are a lot of what I cut my role-playing game teeth on and were my introduction into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. That’s a shame when Neverwinter Nights was a game that tried to capture more of the tabletop RPG vibe than previous CRPGs had managed.Įven so, there’s well over a hundred hours of some of the best-written RPGs of all time, and a ton of additional curated content. All of this can be played with online co-op as well, though on PlayStation 4 you’re missing out on cross-platform multiplayer and the Persistent Worlds, two player-run campaigns that are hosted online and support hundreds of players at a time. Alongside the original campaign, it has two expansions included, Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark, as well as a load of modules to play through. The one place where Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition really excels is with the wealth of content available to you. On the plus side, the radial menus the game uses for in-game actions actually work pretty well with a controller, even if it’s still a little awkward to keep track of where the things you want are, as there are far too many of them. When it is time to sell all your loot to a shop, what would be a simple drag and drop with a mouse becomes a finnicky ordeal with an analog stick. ![]() It’s not always obvious which option in a menu is highlighted, or which option will be highlighted when you try to change selection, occasionally turning menu navigation into a guessing game. That would be fine if you’re playing on PC with a keyboard and mouse as it was originally designed for, but here I am playing Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition on console with a controller in hand. The presentation continues to be an issue throughout, as the UI is exactly the same as it was 18 years ago. Sometimes you can even see the previous screen behind them rather than the customary black border. They’re blockier than Minecraft and stretched to fill the screen in an ugly fashion. Even the CGI cutscenes look poor, as they don’t seem to have been fiddled with at all. ![]()
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