Neverwinter Nights: Der Schatten von Undernzit
Neverwinter Nights:
Shadows of Undrentide
07.07.2024
Schattige Schönheit
The expansion pack adds a new campaign and new features including new character classes, creatures, feats, and spells, and other nuances such as allowing the player to access and modify their henchman's inventory.
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The synopsis for the first Neverwinter Nights addon Shadows of Undrentide , reads so wonderfully archaic that it makes me think back wistfully to a time when games were self-contained and expanded with expansions. Nowadays you only get the full game at some point through season passes and subscription models *cries in Millenial*.
I don't feel like crying with the five-track OST, as the score for the main game already wasn't much of a revelation. Nevertheless, it is somehow noteworthy that one of the two Amarasingham brothers (Arx Fatalis) composed the score instead of Jeremy Soule. One of the two? As is so often the case, sources disagree: the internet claims it was Kemal Amarisingham, the file tags speak of Simon - solomonically I give them both credit.
The tracks are spectacularly unspectacular in themselves and only worth mentioning because they sound different from what Soule presents to us. On the one hand more lively, on the other more oldschool, the album seems like an unintentional throwback to the days of the dungeon crawlers. Is it worse than the main game? A little, because it is completely different and seems alien. But that's a matter of taste.





