The whole Auntie Ethel/Mayrina sequence was very cool indeed, in all departments (combat, design, music, dialogue, glorious, scenery-chewing character acting, etc). Hugely immersive, amounting to a sense of "presence" at times - very reminiscent of the mesmerising 3 witches sequence in TW3.
It's the second time I got a strong BG vibe and forgot it was a Larian game (first time was the phase spider cave and the associated quests) - that sense of monstrous evil, etc. The coda was sad too, no really stellar outcome there (quite tricky for a Paladin as well, in the end I snapped the wand, on the basis that doing the other thing would have just prolonged her travails, whereas now - hopefully - she can move on with her life, at the cost of thinking I'm a bastard. But that's fine, we Paladins don't need to be loved, we just need to do the right thing - mainly Divine Smiting evil into oblivion
).
To get Mayrina down I used a void bulb - I was quite chuffed with myself for coming up with that, though I later realized I could have just used the fucking "control orb" there once I reached it, but I didn't notice that till after it was all over. :D
(Btw if you speak to Auntie when she's dead it's quite amusing - never stop being Auntie Ethel, Auntie Ethel - but there again, it reminded me of how absolutely stuffed to the gills the game is with great bits of voice acting in almost every NPC you come across.)
It's the second time I got a strong BG vibe and forgot it was a Larian game (first time was the phase spider cave and the associated quests) - that sense of monstrous evil, etc. The coda was sad too, no really stellar outcome there (quite tricky for a Paladin as well, in the end I snapped the wand, on the basis that doing the other thing would have just prolonged her travails, whereas now - hopefully - she can move on with her life, at the cost of thinking I'm a bastard. But that's fine, we Paladins don't need to be loved, we just need to do the right thing - mainly Divine Smiting evil into oblivion
).To get Mayrina down I used a void bulb - I was quite chuffed with myself for coming up with that, though I later realized I could have just used the fucking "control orb" there once I reached it, but I didn't notice that till after it was all over. :D
(Btw if you speak to Auntie when she's dead it's quite amusing - never stop being Auntie Ethel, Auntie Ethel
- but there again, it reminded me of how absolutely stuffed to the gills the game is with great bits of voice acting in almost every NPC you come across.)
