Once you got to the second world map everything crapped out. My character, despite having almost maxed remove traps couldnt disable or find most of the traps in the map, the balance was completely screwed up. The enemies sucked, the puzzles were annoying, the art sucked(except the ice temple), the music sucked, the roleplaying sucked etc. The second map of icewind dale 2 was quite terrible.
BTW the vale of shadows in icewind dale rocked.