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Irenicus' backstory and the overall plot post-Spellhold are random and silly.

Irenicus' voice acting and most of his lines are great.

It will get everything killed. The one time it works out for you will be totally sweet though.

AoE spells are just fun - Colour Spray, Grease, Web, etc - but will wreck your fighters unless you place them carefully (and the AI is pretty suicidal). Eventually, there are a lot of low-threat opponents, which means even the low-level ones stay useful the entire game.

Usually the most dangerous threat is anything that can throw bullshit magic back at you - so, monsters - and then worse, anything that can do that magic and has protections against your magic - mostly wizards. Most of those fancy monsters want you to stock up on a couple of status-healing items when you notice them for sale, just in case. Wizard fights become about comprehensively dispelling their protections and then them instantly exploding from Minsc slapping them with a greatsword.

Later, in BG2, things get pretty damn unfair (in both directions - a lot of near-impossible fights are totally negated because you scrounged up money in the starting city to buy an overpriced shield).

There's a nice deconstruction of WWZ ongoing on SV.

Lets Read: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

It takes the form of a in-universe read through of the text, challenging the Hard Men Saved The World narrative as a piece of propaganda to support the US Junta and their overseas allies, by a survivor in Bristol. It reinterprets many events to actually make some kind of sense - North Korea isn't a spoopy megabunker, but close enough that propaganda can spin it that way. Yonkers was a deliberate destruction of units and officers who were considered unlikely to support abandoning half the country to die and couping the government.