History YMMV / NeverwinterNights2

* CompleteMonster:
** [[OurLichesAreDifferent Black Garius]], the self-proclaimed "Master of the Fifth Tower", is the supposed leader of the Cult of Shadow, a group of necromancers that plunders grave sites and old battle sites for corpses to their army and tries to free the [[BigBad King of Shadows]]. In reality, [[TheStarscream he wants to exploit the King for power]]; [[BadBoss treats his subordinates as expendable pawns]]; and was ready to wipe out the remaining cultists as soon as he was done with the ritual to bind the King. However, the ritual is botched and he dies, only to be revived as a Shadow Reaver, a slave to the King. He's perfectly fine with his state, as he has more magical powers than he had in life. His greatest atrocity in the game was ordering the massacre of a peaceful village in order to frame the PlayerCharacter, who had thwarted his efforts. If you prove yourself innocent in the court, he shows no regret over the people that died, but is enraged over his minions for failing him and kills Lorne on the spot if you didn't do it yourself.
** Myrkul from ''Mask of the Betrayer'' has an entry at Monster.DungeonsAndDragons.

* CompleteMonster: [[OurLichesAreDifferent Black Garius]], the self-proclaimed "Master of the Fifth Tower", is the supposed leader of the Cult of Shadow, a group of necromancers that plunders grave sites and old battle sites for corpses to their army and tries to free the [[BigBad King of Shadows]]. In reality, [[TheStarscream he wants to exploit the King for power]]; [[BadBoss treats his subordinates as expendable pawns]]; and was ready to wipe out the remaining cultists as soon as he was done with the ritual to bind the King. However, the ritual is botched and he dies, only to be revived as a Shadow Reaver, a slave to the King. He's perfectly fine with his state, as he has more magical powers than he had in life. His greatest atrocity in the game was ordering the massacre of a peaceful village in order to frame the PlayerCharacter, who had thwarted his efforts. If you prove yourself innocent in the court, he shows no regret over the people that died, but is enraged over his minions for failing him and kills Lorne on the spot if you didn't do it yourself.

* DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound:
** The various "I can't carry any more" soundbites get real old, real fast. Characters complain whenever they pass certain encumbrance thresholds, which are very low for most magic users -- and unfortunately, magic users tend to be the ones who can identify magic items, which need to be in the identifier's inventory, and are often quite heavy.
--> '''Sand:''' I am ''not'' a pack mule and I can't move carrying all this stuff!
** "Sure, I can do that! ...All done!" is heard quite a bit in dungeons. Since interacting with the environment with a skill never takes more than a few seconds, and traps and treasure chests are often clustered together, the barks are played to annoyance.
** "[[SmallNameBigEgo I THINK IT IS TIME EVERYONE MARCH BEHIND ME, YOUR NEW GL-L-LORIOUS LEADER]]!"
** Grobnar's battle cries. Tolerating his voice is hard enough when he's not squealing at you.
** The air elemental's constant wind blowing sound, which it makes even when standing still.
** The Magic Circle against Alignment spell. Whenever someone enters or exits it, it has to make a damn bell-like sound. Now imagine a whole party of six adventurers going in and out of the circle constantly, because no one has [[ArtificialStupidity a decent pathfinding]]

* MagnificentBastard: Mephasm, who never overtly does anything evil by his own will in the story, yet nobody has the slightest doubt that he's as bad as they come.

* MostAnnoyingSound:

** For some reason, the silver shards that once comprised the blade of the Sword of Gith were translated into "silver crumbs", as in the same kind of "crumbs" as in "breadcrumbs". It's as silly as it sounds.
** There's also a case later in the game where a Githyanki who both sounds and looks male addresses himself by female pronouns. Keep in mind, this game received an official Polish dub, meaning that the people behind the dub had the actor use those female pronouns while speaking in a distinctly male voice, and at no point did anyone decide to question this. How that kind of mistake happens is a mystery for the ages.

* ThatOnePuzzle: There's a mission in the game where you are trying to get a number of different spirits to a central location. The spirits tell you that certain wards prevent them from moving forward. The player has the ability to turn off (and on) certain wards. Simple, right? Well, actually the puzzle isn't too hard but the [[StoryAndGameplayerSegregation solution doesn't match the exposition given]]. Rather than simply opening up the wards in front of the spirits, you have to ''close the wards in all other possible directions except the one you want''. So, rather than opening up the passage for the spirits, the puzzle is more about forcing the spirits down certain paths by closing off any alternatives to them, as they will ''never'' go down the desired path unless it's the only option.

* InternetBackdraft: The Wall of the Faithless. It's a combination of Edition Wars and Religious Wars rolled into one - mentioning it anywhere will cause a fight to break out. It doesn't help that it disappeared from the setting without explanation shortly after the game came out.

** There's also a case later in the game where a Githyanki who both sounds and looks male addresses himself by female pronouns. How that kind of mistake happens is a mystery for the ages.

** For some reason the silver shards that once comprised the blade of the Sword of Gith were translated into "silver crumbs", as in the same kind of "crumbs" as in "breadcrumbs". It's as silly as it sounds.
** There's also a case later in the game where a Githyanki who both sounds and looks male addresses himself by female pronouns. How did that kind of mistake happen is a mystery for the ages.

* SelfFanservice: While Bishop ''is'' MrFanservice, under his [[PermaStubble grizzled]] exterior his model has a [[PrettyBoy boyish, almost androgynous]] feel. (Especially his [[https://lparchive.org/Neverwinter-Nights-2/Update%2031/ concept art]]). Ha! Good luck finding any fan art that doesn't play up his [[PermaStubble stubble]], [[HeroicBuild muscles]], [[CoveredWithScars scars]], or [[CarpetOfVirility grizzled exterior]] for all they're worth to make him RatedMForManly.

** The final voice over of [[WhereAreTheyNow the epilogue]] is cringe-worthy terrible, which makes you wonder why didn't the developers removed it entirely. Fortunately, the voice over of the expansions are far better, as they are voice by Kelemvor and Volo's voice actors.

** The final voice over of [[WhereAreTheyNow the epilogue]] is cringe-worthy terrible. Fortunately, the voice over of the expansions are far better.

* {{Narm}}: Half of the voiced villains and baddies are trying way too hard to sound evil.

** ''Mask of the Betrayer'' is fairly notable for its ability to make the player do some [[KickTheDog absolutely terrible things]], well beyond the previous game's "ask people for more money when rescuing them." Leading leading several innocent people, [[spoiler:including Anya]], to a gruesome death at the hands of spirit eater-worshipping uthraki, is just one of them.

** And of course, there's the [[spoiler:"Devour" ending, wherein you eat Akachi to become a full-fledged EldritchAbomination whose mere ''existence'' is declared by Kelemvor to irreversibly cross the line.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:The player]] leading several innocent people, [[spoiler:including Anya]], to a gruesome death at the hands of spirit eater-worshipping uthraki.
** Alternately, [[spoiler:forcing the Spirit-Eater Curse to devour the Red Woman, effectively rendering Akachi's sacrifice completely moot]].

** Indeed, ''Mask of the Betrayer'' is fairly notable for its ability to make the player do some [[KickTheDog absolutely terrible things]], well beyond the previous game's "ask people for more money when rescuing them." [[spoiler:Devouring the soul of the Founder]] is another big one - notably, it's the only thing that can cause Safiya to turn on you regardless of influence. Even the curse itself doesn't want to do it.

* CrazyAwesome: Khelgar considers using his weapons to be unfair.
** ''Ribsmasher! [[VerbalTic HA!]]''

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''Storm of Zehir'' has some excellent music. The brass in the main menu theme is particularly good.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome:
** An in-story example: arguing your defense at trial. In song. Flusters the prosecutor and wins you the crowd.
** [[http://youtu.be/ulueUlCPjvs "Approaching the Spirit Army"]] from the ''Mask'' soundtrack.

** Speaking of, cleric Knight-Captain. A wizard or sorcerer has the EarlyGameHell to worry about, but a cleric has reasonable HP and armor, melee skills, and access to healing magic to get them through it. Roundabouts the midgame, you have Harm to inflict HPToOne on most enemies, Divine Power and Righteous Might to out-damage the fighters, and Turn Undead in a game where it feels like 80% of endgame opponents are affected by it, with Diplomacy to handle anything social. And to cap it off, the only cleric companion shows up pretty late and isn't too well-built.

* CompleteMonster: [[OurLichesAreDifferent Black Garius]], the self-proclaimed "Master of the Fifth Tower", is the supposed leader of the [[ReligionOfEvil Cult of Shadow]], a group of necromancers that plunders grave sites and old battle sites for corpses to their army and tries to free the [[BigBad King of Shadows]]. In reality, [[TheStarscream he wants to exploit the King for power]]; [[BadBoss treats his subordinates as expendable pawns]]; and was ready to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness wipe out the remaining cultists]] as soon as he was done with the ritual to bind the King. However, [[EvilIsNotAToy the ritual is botched and he dies]], only to be revived as a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Shadow Reaver]], a slave to the King. He's perfectly fine with his state, as he has more magical powers than he had in life. His greatest atrocity in the game was ordering the massacre of a peaceful village in order to {{Frame|Up}} the PlayerCharacter, who had thwarted his efforts. If you prove yourself innocent in the court, he shows no regret over the people that died, but is enraged over his minions for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]] and kills Lorne on the spot if you didn't do it yourself. Garius was all in all a [[SmugSnake smug]], power-hungry backstabber with no redeeming features whatsoever.