Tonight I have installed in my BG 2 folder Erephine's 1PP mod for the first time. And it rocks.
I had not checked it out before, and it was a wonderful surprise to me: the spell animations are excellent, the paperdolls are better than the original ones, THE FLAMING SWORD IS BACK AGAIN!, the shields and armours are back to being shields and armours, and not strange metal pieces glued together anymore.
It gave me back the same sense of wonder that I had when I played BG 1 for the first time, curious about every spell effect and every new magical weapon--a sense of wonder that BG 2, though surely far superior in a lot of ways than its predecessor, had lost, for me. I find BG 2 paperdolls, for example, less refined than BG 1 ones, and in general I find the graphics much more streamlined and less fantastic. And THERE ARE NO FLAMING SWORDS, in BG 2.
Erephine made a truly wonderful mod. It alone sparked my interest in playing again BG 2 from the start, and with an excitement I had not had since a long time. I am so happy 1PP is going to be implemented in BG:EE.
I had not checked it out before, and it was a wonderful surprise to me: the spell animations are excellent, the paperdolls are better than the original ones, THE FLAMING SWORD IS BACK AGAIN!, the shields and armours are back to being shields and armours, and not strange metal pieces glued together anymore.
It gave me back the same sense of wonder that I had when I played BG 1 for the first time, curious about every spell effect and every new magical weapon--a sense of wonder that BG 2, though surely far superior in a lot of ways than its predecessor, had lost, for me. I find BG 2 paperdolls, for example, less refined than BG 1 ones, and in general I find the graphics much more streamlined and less fantastic. And THERE ARE NO FLAMING SWORDS, in BG 2.
Erephine made a truly wonderful mod. It alone sparked my interest in playing again BG 2 from the start, and with an excitement I had not had since a long time. I am so happy 1PP is going to be implemented in BG:EE.
