Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

I must give this game 5/5. I have spent 100 hours and finally completed this wonderful game. Sometimes it felt like a chore, but I couldn't stop playing because the combat is very addictive. I will tell you some gripes that I had with this game. Some of the puzzles are not very intuitive and lack hints. They are near impossible to get through without a walkthrough and some minor spoilers. I unfortunately spent too long trying to solve puzzles the wrong way, before figuring it out through a walkthrough completely breaking the immersion. But that is what is fantastic about this game. You will be immersed. It's a big world with an even bigger story and definetely one worth completing. I felt a true sense of adventuring playing this game, as one should. Buy it and have fun!

I really enjoyed this game. After seeing all the gruesome details of DOS2, it's definitely like stepping into a fairy tale full of ridiculous voice acting. Also there's definitely less replayability and polish, but I still had fun. New skills. Summons for every class. Somewhat different charactering building systems. Best of all, no magic and physical armor, so I can have a mixed party. Just different enough to feel fresh. The only negative for me is that there are some basically essential events, and some nonessential but still cool things, that I feel are completely impossible to find without looking things up. Also tiny levers and buttons that I can't see in the darkness. I guess it was also annoying how the lores between DOS1 and DOS2 are contradictory.

It took me 117hours to beat this game, and it was time well spent. You can tell the developers really love RPG's by noticing all the details, visuals, lore, sounds, voices, humor, and action they put in this game. The game looks gorgeous, and plays extremely well, even on an old AMD FX-8350 bottle-necked system. Even in "normal" mode, this game's puzzles are difficult. Nothing is obvious, which can lead to some frustration (it did for me). But that is part of the challenge. As you progress and level up your characters, you feel powerful, but never overwhelmingly so. You have to always use sound tactics, or battles will go south on you FAST. And you MUST remember to quick save before/after any significant event, combat, and encounter. I spent plenty of time having to replay an area because I got cocky and didn't save after too many battles, only to finally lose and have to start over from my last save. This is a five star game, that gets almost everything right. The crafting system should have been more robust, and junk items should be clearly marked as such. By the end of the game, I was haulign alot of stuff I didn't need. Also, you don't know what you need to keep, but I guess that just contributes to the strategic challenge of the game itself. Even if you played the standard edition, you should give the enhanced edition a try. It has new quests, characters, voice acting, a graphics overhaul, and an expanded and changed main plot.This game is right up there with Neverwinter Nights - an instant Classic!

a CRPG with local multiplayer; perfectly controls for both keyboard/mouse and controller setups (helpful for if you want to play split-screen) combat is solid, classes are wide open, my only complaint is that characters hair look like they were crafted out of stone, and graphically, while impressive, it isn't the best optimized, but that's a problem Larian often has, so I wasn't too surprised. Probably the studio's best game, I'm still partial to Dragon Commander myself, being a strategy nut, but I'd still suggest this one to friends first, it's just that good. Definitely better than that new Baldur's Gate Expansion, that's for sure. -still salty-

★★★★½