You will play the game, you will fuck the bear and be happy.
spoilers for act 1
the game starts with a mindflayer putting a psionic parasite in your eye in order to turn you into a mindflayer. it adds some dialogue options but you dont have to use them and i think there's a parasite skill tree if you interact with it a bunch. im not sure how the rest of the game is going to go (im only partially through act 1) but yeah it seems like mindflayers play a pretty big role in the main story, im guessing that they'll feature prominently in the later stages of the game and will probably be the big boss battle at the end. at the moment my party's main quest is about trying to find a cure for the parasite but there's also a bunch of cool side story stuff going on. each of the origin characters has their own fleshed out backstory too.
Take it for a test drive. Our lady fitgirl is working on a repack.
I've played it since it was pre-released. Intro bits got the most of the illithid stuff in it and after you hit solid ground and can explore the world it takes a pretty big step to the backburners for a while, beyond some dice roll choices that you can optionally take in some conversations.
I know anyone's free to choose how they want to play, but I suggest trying Bard out. Although I hear paladin is a lot more popular among the normies.
