I finally fully understand why I just DO NOT like Shadowheart as a character in BG3.
Shadowheart is rewarded for being selfish, self centered, self focused, and actively harming the adventuring party.
Yes, I know, she has “a growth moment” - but you (the player) do all the work to get her there… IF you get her there… otherwise there is no growth moment at all and she stays as is OR she outright abandons your party.
Shadowheart, and subsequently BG3 itself, makes her story and actions and purpose more important than anything else going on in the world and yet will keep things hidden from you that will actively help… and then just expects you to blindly say “yeah okay” to gain her trust more.
No other party member does this. It’s literally just Shadowheart.
Additionally (and this is the game’s fault, not Shadowheart’s this time) the game gives you a chance to 10000000% rat out Shadowheart for being the thief who stole the Githyanki relic.
And you know what the game does?
Kills you.
A near god level character wipes out your entire party by using the WISH spell, forcing you to reload a save
The game doesn’t LET you sell out Shadowheart.
Also… Shadowheart is the only party character of the core cast who can ACTIVELY MURDER ANOTHER PARTY MEMBER MULTIPLE LONG NIGHTS OF REST INTO THE GAME AND AFTER THEY’VE TRAVELED TOGETHER FOR QUITE SOME TIME!
And… she just can do that. And that’s fine. And okay.
Legit, this makes her a unique character in the video game world itself and makes it super interesting to have her around and see what wild bananas bullshit she’ll pull next.
But here’s the deal… Baldur’s Gate is D&D, fam.
Now imagine, for one second, you’re playing D&D with someone who is playing a character like Shadowheart.
…you’d fuckin’ quit, or complain to the DM, or SOMETHING.
And as someone who’s had to deal with players like that in D&D before, Shadowheart’s character pisses me off for those reasons.
So THAT is why Shadowheart rubs me the wrong way and has since I started playing the game.
And YES I have like 200 hours into this game and I fucking LOVE it.
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my favorite baby style ncu continuity is cute tiny hopeless romantic kindergarten disney prince stan falling in love with kyle broflovski at first sight and buying every flavor of ring pop trying to propose to him like 'you are...the most Beautiful person i've ever seen.'
and evil feral kindergarten nj kyle threatening to bite him, fight him and end his pitiful life like 'and you are...so Gahdamn WEIRD. stay the hell away from me, yA FREAK!' and trying to bear mace him skdhs
— but then k-garten stan doing something incredibly wholesome, mindboggling stupid and storybook chivalrous to save k-garten kyle's life, the ice around his cold black heart melting, bein forever changed and falling head over heels in love w boy hero k-garten stan...
...all to take the fATTEST L OF ALL FUCKING TIME because he is too emotionally constipated to confess his feelings and end up gettin stuck in the super best friend zone FOREVER bc every day perfect stan marsh gets lovelier, handsomer and....Fucking STUPIDER.
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