The kind of a game where you can put a throne into your pockets and then place it home to tie the room together. Or polymorph the particularly difficult enemies (yes, last boss included) and then spend ungodly amount of time trying to catch them to land a hit. The downsides are that the game is grindy and often times tedious - Larian figured out their writing
long before they figured out their gameplay.

Hey, wouldn't it be FUN if we put second longest, most tedious dungeon of our game right in the beginning, when PC is at their weakest?

The kind of a game where you can put a throne into your pockets and then place it home to tie the room together. Or polymorph the particularly difficult enemies (yes, last boss included) and then spend ungodly amount of time trying to catch them to land a hit. The downsides are that the game is grindy and often times tedious - Larian figured out their writing [i]long before[/i] they figured out their gameplay. Hey, wouldn't it be FUN if we put second longest, most tedious dungeon of our game right in the beginning, when PC is at their weakest?