Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s big Guardian plot twist haunts players over a year later Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 is celebrating its first anniversary, but even after an entire year, players are still reeling from a key story revelation regarding one of the game\u2019s customizable characters. Any player who has reached the late stages of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 will know the Guardian isn\u2019t actually who they originally appear to be. One of the first things you\u2019ll do in any run is customize this character to your liking, but this mysterious figure has so many dark secrets that many players ultimately feel like they\u2019ve been catfished. Even now that the game has been out for a full year, the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 community is still talking about how stunned they were by the big plot twist that the player\u2019s Guardian is actually a mind flayer known as the Emperor. One meme posted on the BaldursGate3 subreddit sums up the shock pretty well, highlighting the time many players put into designing their ideal Guardians only to discover later on that their initial appearance was a ruse. The top comment on the post hilariously explains how some players approach Guardian design differently once they know the truth: \u201cEveryone\u2019s first Guardian is their perfect romantic ideal or someone they can imagine as a mentor. Everyone\u2019s every subsequent Guardian is hitting random until you get a result that makes you burst into uncontrollable laughter.\u201d \u201cI block the screen before hitting random so when they show up it\u2019s a surprise,\u201d shared another. Others praised developer Larian Studios for managing to actually shock players by getting them attached to their Guardian only to break their hearts. As one said, \u201cI put so much thought into my first guardian,\u201d incorporating them into their Tav\u2019s backstory. \u201cThen came act 3. Damn you Larian and your amazing storytelling.\u201d Of course, not everyone is heartbroken by the Guardian twist. Larian shared stats for Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s anniversary that reveal over a million players chose to romance the Emperor despite the truth, with 37% of those players sleeping with him in his mind flayer form \u2013 despite having the option to have him maintain the Guardian design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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