{"id":1427,"date":"2025-07-22T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:07:17","slug":"review-dungeons-dragons-neverwinter-nights-2-enhanced-edition-switch-a-flawed-gem-that-needed-more-polish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/review-dungeons-dragons-neverwinter-nights-2-enhanced-edition-switch-a-flawed-gem-that-needed-more-polish\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dungeons &amp; Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition (Switch) &#8211; A Flawed Gem That Needed More Polish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roll for initiative.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/strong> has had a long and checkered history with video game adaptations, with every ascendant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/baldurs_gate_3\">Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/a> being matched by an equally disappointing <strong>Iron &amp; Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft<\/strong>. Then there are the games that fall firmly in the middle, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/neverwinter_nights_enhanced_edition\">Neverwinter Nights<\/a>. After the success of the first game in 2002, Bioware passed the buck to Obsidian for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/dungeons_and_dragons_neverwinter_nights_2_enhanced_edition\">Neverwinter Nights 2<\/a>, which went on to become a modest success in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Now Aspyr has seen fit to do a modern remaster of it following on from the middling re-release of its predecessor a few years ago. Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition isn\u2019t exactly a comprehensive overhaul, but the polishes and tweaks here make this overall the definitive way to play this flawed gem.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/dungeons-and-dragons-neverwinter-nights-2-enhanced-edition\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll for initiative. Dungeons &amp; Dragons has had a long and checkered history with video game adaptations, with every ascendant Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 being matched by an equally disappointing Iron &amp; Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft. Then there are the games that fall firmly in the middle, like Neverwinter Nights. After the success of the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}