It's mildly infuriating that Gauntlet Edwynna won't let me pass.

[deviousity]

She demands 200 gold. I have 13k gold so it's not like I can't afford it,, But it's the principle. How does she not know who I am? Why can I not explain who I am? I have the Archducal Coronation admission pass, how does that not get me in? Why is there no Persuasion check? Full stop. I'm pissed. I'm about to Misty Step or Fly in. After I slaughter the whole group of guards and quick load.

If I had the option I could easily pass the check to get in without spending money.

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[deviousity]

Huh. So I brought Jahiera out and used her to start the conversation. It was a little different.
She had an option I didn't have. The scene was a little more informative.

Also, those kids came out of nowhere. Whatever they threw, they must have rolled a 20. It was pretty cheap though, having some random kids come in and do what they did.

I mean, I could have easily talked my way in even without rolls. Hey, go tell Gortash that Ketheric's redeemer is here. Go ahead, I'll wait. Or how about this. I just killed some Doppelgangers masquerading as circus performers. You can go see for yourself. I'm tracking a murderer and I need to get into the city. Or how about, Arfur Gregorio sent me.
Official business. Really, I have to pay to get in? That's complete BS.

[There is no Mango]

Act 3 is just not polished at all like the other 2, it is what it is.

Same thing happened to DOS 2 with the absolutely terrible island act on release.
Same as inventory management was horrible in DOS 2 and is horrible in BG3.

BG3 being a great game in many ways does not stop it from having some glaring flaws.

[deviousity]

I could comment on the flaws but I want to keep this on topic here.

So, Gauntlet Edwynna demands 200 gold to let me in, I tell her I'm not a refugee, she doesn't budge. I didn't escalate to actually attacking them, instead I tried bringing someone famous. So I swapped someone out for Jaheira and tried again. She had an option I didn't have, and it lead to a confrontation with the Steel Watch robot. It communicated telepathically and said it knew of all my crimes from those eyes the cult has everywhere, clearly revealing where its allegiance lies. Then some kid comes up and throws a rock or something, disables the robot, and now the guards don't care about keeping people out anymore. So I understand they did know who I was and they weren't on my side, and there would be no persuading them. But it would have been much more direct and interesting instead of some randoms coming to my aid, unrequested, if Gortash took over the robot, like he does a few minutes later, and invited me to his coronation immediately. There would have been a build up of tension, thinking "uh oh I'm gonna have to fight this thing," then a twist ending. Also, no new content would have to be created, the scene with the kids could actually be cut, and the dialogue from later could be moved up.

Edit: I read somewhere that the "kid" was actually a deep gnome with the ones that want to blow up the foundry and it wasn't a rock, it was some kind of device purpose-built to disable the robots. Still, I think if you wanted to make the scene dramatic, having Gortash take over and change things up is better.