A Thorough Look at the Baldur’s Gate Series

Videogame critic and YouTube Noah Caldwell-Gervais — who some of us remember for his for the most part excellent video essays and retrospectives that are unfortunately often marred by low production values — has published a thorough look of the Baldur’s Gate series in its latest incarnations, the Enhanced Editions developed by Beamdog.

It’s an interesting look at one of the milestones of the CRPG genre, that also provides one of the most interesting and levelheaded critiques of Beamdog’s Siege of Dragonspear expansion yet (though it’s one I only partially agree with), but it’s also a very long and time-consuming video. Be sure to have two hours of free time if you want to watch it in one sitting: