>>3711627
>so really fucking nobody was calling it a hack n slash on release
The zoomer shows his final form.
>A great game for those who loved the hack-and-slash parts of "Baldur's Gate."
PC Gamer
>If you're looking for a quick dungeon crawling, hack-and-slash trek through the frozen north with a peppy little story and some great combat then this is definitely a title to get.
Armchair Empire
>It should leave the most seasoned adventurer hungering for more. The hack-and-slash battles and the progressive storyline should keep the most demanding RPGer happy.
Gamezilla!
>Icewind Dale: Hack 'n' slash RPG reviewed [...] Character progression is perfectly balanced, so that battles are challenging without being too easy or frustratingly hard. The storyline is a paint by numbers fantasy affair, but really only serves to link the dungeons and battles together as your party dives onward, hacking and slashing their way through the land.
Eurogamer
>Icewind Dale is considered more hack-n-slash than Planescape: Torment.
Gamespace
~~I would've given you about two dozen more examples, with links, but the modern web is fake and gay and just gave a bunch of 404s for the majority of links~~
A normal person would've just said "Oh, I didn't know where that term came from, when I hear that term, I think of Diablo-clones and ARPGs and stuff like that" but you lack grace or humility and had to septuple down on having a moronic spergout, even when your elders attempted to politely inform you.

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