Neverwinter Nights: EE - OC - Chapter 1 - The Intellect Devourer (Blind, Very Difficult)
4The Intellect Devourer / Peninsula portion of chapter one, played blind on the hardest difficulty using a sorcerer. Chapter one is set almost entirely in Neverwinter and tasks you with finding the four Waterdhavian creatures that escaped the academy in the prelude. After exploring City Core and hiring my first henchman (Sharwyn, I'll be sticking with her for the whole game) I eventually venture into the Peninsula district, where a prison break is causing some major disruption.
I'm still finding my feet at this point, having come straight from the Infinity Engine games I was confused about a few aspects. Like why my bard henchman wasn't able to identify my items and why I couldn't really command her to do much at all. I got used to it eventually, it's just how this game works, but when you see me fiddle about with the radial menus a lot it's usually because I'm trying to get my head around what I can (or more likely can't) do.
I'm also aware that the frame rate takes a hit at some points. It was largely to do with the sparkly wing effect on the dragon familiar, but I didn't know that at the time and it was bugging me. I eventually installed a mod to remove the effect and not long after dumped the dragon for the panther, which fixed the problem. Evidently this game was not well optimised and the Enhanced Edition suffers from the same issues unfortunately.
Like most of my other RPG playthroughs I will not be editing out the "boring" bits, so it will include all inventory management (of which there is plenty), travelling, shopping, levelling etc. You can skip anything of course but I prefer to leave it all in for archive purposes and to show a full raw representation, for better or worse, of my experience playing this game. Timecodes are included to help you navigate. I will be splicing at save points if I reloaded though, so whenever you see an abrupt camera angle change after a save screen that's usually due to a reload.
Timecodes:
00:00:00 - City Core Arrival
01:17:27 - Peninsula District Arrival
03:17:15 - Tanglebrook Estate Arrival
03:34:27 - Prison Arrival
04:36:35 - Containment Level Arrival
05:40:54 - The Pits Arrival
06:37:30 - Kurdan Fenkt Battle
06:48:57 - Lair of the Devourer (Intellect Devourer Boss)
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