GB Feature: NWN: ShadowGuard Review

Following the Kingmaker review we posted earlier in the week, this time we provide an in-depth look at ShadowGuard, another of the premium Neverwinter Nights modules now available for purchase. A snip:

ShadowGuard tells the story of you, the only child of a city magistrate. When the module opens, you find yourself graduating from the local academy, which means you’ve just become a citizen of the empire. One of the (perks) of being a citizen is that you get to sit in judgment of criminals, and so your first task in the module is to decide the fate of some guy named Yakir (the Black Butcher.) Now, this isn’t a case where you might find Yakir innocent if you dig deep enough; he’s an evil guy, deserving of his nickname, and so it’s merely a question of which punishment you want to give him. However, your graduating class includes two other people, and of course they’re split on which punishment Yakir should receive, and so I thought this was going to be a cool way of deciding which of your classmates was going to be your henchman for the module. But, alas, there is little that could be considered (cool) about ShadowGuard. The fate of Yakir is completely meaningless, your classmates pretty much disappear from the module after the graduation ceremony, and the graduation ceremony itself isn’t even necessary.