As a downside, doing so lets you see the simple sprites in all their pixelated glory, which reveals the limitations of the "enhanced" visuals. Even so, plenty of welcome improvements lie in store, such as the way the option to zoom in and out by pinching the screen allows a welcome degree of precision demanded by the iPad's smallish screen. The old, blurry GUI remains more or less intact aside from a widescreen modification, but its background colors now have a dubious tendency toward blues rather than greens and grays. Others just seem silly, such as the way developer Overhaul struck the inoffensive and memorable Nietzsche quote from the opening two or three seconds. Some of the "enhanced" changes will disappoint fans of the original like myself, such as the way the animated cutscenes of the original give way to unsatisfying illustrated montages with clipped dialogue. The iPad version in particular has an unfortunate tendency to crash on some of the busier battles, and framerates can slow to a crawl when someone casts an entangle spell. Dialogue options sometimes don't respond, and laughably, selecting Minsc's famed hamster once caused a crash. Erased, allegedly, are more than 400 bugs that plagued the original, although my playthrough suggests that several new bugs made their way in as well. Yet that's a bigger undertaking than it might sound like. This isn't a remake it merely takes the skeleton of the original game and fleshes it out with enhanced visuals and a treasure trove of tweaks quietly stitched into the interface. The key to appreciating this new release lies in its name. Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition fares better on PC.
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