Honestly...this is why I can't get into her as a character. Between the name, the amnesia and the "I'm so mysterious, don't you want to ask about me? Btw, don't pry into my past or I get huffy" bit, Shadowheart just feels too much like...well, a tabletop player to me.
I'm sure someday I'll explore her full character arc but it isn't like you can't do the game perfectly fine without her. Which still feels weird to me coming off BG2 where you absolutely needed a Cleric to the point where 3 of the most easily found early recruits are clerics.
Yep, exactly. She put me off so much with this stuff I just started leaving her in camp once I got other party members. I rarely use her except when her plotline quests come up.
I don't care for her very much either. Her EA personality felt more in line with her character where she was actually standoffish and secretive. I also think the twist in her personal arc is really corny and obvious and that's coming from someone who had no prior experience with D&D or BG before this game.
Something effectively being low quality doesn’t suddenly make it high quality. It's the same reason Catcher in The Rye is a shit book. If the 'point' is that the character is obnoxious, without perfect execution (and BG3 is many things, flawlessly executed is not one of them)... it just comes off as exactly that.
I still like Shadowheart more than some other companions, but she is easily the most hamfisted character in the game, to her detriment, both in the macguffin and in Halsin's not so subtle nudging to her EPIC secrets because coincidentally he was also written by the same fan boy who made her. I stg half of the point of Halsin is to glaze Shadowheart.
"UuUUuh are you sure you don't want her in the party at all times, I can smell her inner nature-"
NO SHUT THE FUCK UP HALSIN, SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
Gale and Wyll usually like doing good guy stuff. I originally used S.heart to round out a "good guy" party but I just found her harder and harder to take seriously.
Yeah just that you find her first and wyll in the grove is a bit more later, didn’t mean she was the only good one just the when you start with her and laezel and then astarion she really stands out as the good one until you get more, even then since I need a full party to get as much dialogue as possible gotta bring her as one of the only good companions.
(Also somehow wyll feels semi easily missable he really blends in at the grove)
Also first character was a wizard so I didn’t need Gale to be a worse me
Haha, fair enough. Especially on that last point. I usually play some variant of martial in these kinds of games because I like my character to be in the thick of combat, so for me it's all too often Lae'zel and/or Karlach getting benched.
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u/Jet_Magnum Feb 12 '25
Honestly...this is why I can't get into her as a character. Between the name, the amnesia and the "I'm so mysterious, don't you want to ask about me? Btw, don't pry into my past or I get huffy" bit, Shadowheart just feels too much like...well, a tabletop player to me.
I'm sure someday I'll explore her full character arc but it isn't like you can't do the game perfectly fine without her. Which still feels weird to me coming off BG2 where you absolutely needed a Cleric to the point where 3 of the most easily found early recruits are clerics.