Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

I played the second one first and wanted to give this one a go, while I didn't expect this to be as good as the seconds one, I didn't expect it to be so bad either The good Combat is still fun even compared to the second one Graphics also look really good The bad Story is kinda mehish Music is not really good Respeccing your character is really expensive compared to the second one's system The worst The game is absolutely riddled with bugs: The combat queue works like 10% of the time The combat music suddenly just vanishes and never plays again Attacking and targeting issues, sometimes the game just decides you should walk over to a point instead of attacking Companions have really bad pathfinding and hazard awareness, walking or standing right into traps Save issues, when sometimes reloading a file resets some combats The bugs eventually became way too much for me to continue playing the game

This is a game of extremes: - On one hand, the gameplay is excellent. But only after you gather a descent amount of upgrade points, abilities and equipment, which takes a looong of time. - The game doesn't hold your hand as if you a preschooler, like many other games do today. But the game tells you very little and sometimes deliberately obscures stuff, so you either have a mountain of patience for searching or look it up online (I have no patience at all). - Gear management is fun, until you realize you spent 4 hours just to make your heroes work on that new level you just got, because without gear they are trash. A caveat: payoff here is excellent, I wiped the flor with the final boss (on normal) :) The story, setting, character and music have some moments but in general they are ok and just ok. It was fun playing through this story with those heroes, but this is one of those games where the gameplay is the main draw.The mission before the final boss is king od annoying to play, and once again the game tells you almost nothing and you have to figure this all on your own. I know some people prefer this, but to me it was a bit too much. Oh, and there is very little decision making, so it makes RPG elements a bit under-cooked. If you are the kind of player who wants to spent hours figuring what to do or finding that one button you missed, this is a game for you. If you want to spent hours picking and choosing which boots should your heroes equip, this is a game for you. Finally, if you want to wait patiently (very, very patiently) to finally be able to get some new abilities, this is a game for you. All that complaining aside, I did finish this game (150+ hours) and I had a lot of fun. I just wish I wouldn't need to use Internet guides so often to simply progress the main story.

Cool RPG with amazing co-op mode, but even on the hardest setting this game is waaaay too easy. The battles are basically auto-win, and what should have been a great game is quickly beaten within 20 hours and put away forever. Final boss is a total joke I killed with one earthquake spell. Really too bad the balance is so horrible.

I have to write a review about this game! I am playing RPGs-all sorts of them- for like15 years! Well for those 15 years i had been a dedicated warrior-brute-force-fist-over-matters. It was rare that i chose the mage class just because it was a great hussle of micomanaging spells,potions and all that magic stuff... But after i tried to play steel-vs-steel-plus-support-mage in this game the 1st run(tactician) i was OWNED. I got to the point where i thought this game was badly designed and unfair as i had played XCOM that had rng turn base too but it was doable!. After a bit of research in the forum about why i was losing so hard i got a whif of why and the reason was that i didnt use the elements to my advantage. I went and try to make a party of a mage and warrior.... IT WAS A BLAST ! Setting up the environment as a trap for your opponent with your elemental mage be that fire to an oily surface or thunder to a watery one. Never before had i so much fun using cloth classes! All that comes from a guy that is fed up using melee classes after trying to play mage in any game and ending up using melee... There are also cool pazzles that require many skills of your party to progress. EVERY skill has a use out of combat and can be used to interact with the environment! YES you CAN break doors! At last an rpg that lets you use your destructive spells to destroy those pesky doors that had been stopping me for years in games! YES you can talk to a lonely crab and be friends with it! YES you can do a stand up show to destract the audience and steal a talking head! So much to do in this game, in so many ways! Buy it, its an indie game too so the money goes straight to the developers too! Good stuff!

In 2017 I was disappointment many times when I bought a new game. This was my last purchase in the year. I saw it on sale, I know the hype, so I said, let's buy it and I will see. First 2 hours was like 2 minutes and I was not sleeping and playing when I can. I still don't beat game, as I did not have so much time, but I am progressing through it. Yes it has some flaws, for example quest structure is too rigid in contrary with the relative free world. So you can go and pass things earlier than was imagine by the storywriters and unfortunately there is no much response to it in dialogues (e.g. I solved the murder, but I could not tell it to anyone). Another flaw is that sometimes your 2 characters are doing things that prevent you to do something, that you know is a trap or cheat. In one situation I lacked the option to say, hey I know that this is a fraud, but let's do it anyway. This should be done a bit differently. But it does not affect my rating. Or I could say it is not 5 stars, it is 4.8 stars, which rounds up to 5. I like the music, voice acting is good, not annoying. I like the story and the way how it slowly develops, with some already mentioned caveats to the rigid quest structure. I like the turn based combat, as you can pause and think what to do (I was never able to manage the tactical pause in other similar games). One feature is that you have various elements and powers and you can influence and use the environment tactically. You can interact with a lot of the things and talk to animals. You do not have all aggressive animals jumping from all directions on you that you have to farm because of the XP (this is in fact a nonsense that is in many CPRGs). And in fact there is just few XP farming, rather here every encounter has some meaning and every fight is set to the wider context of the story. This is in fact perfect. There is a good choice how to build your characters and progress them. You can be double handed sword wielding wizard that talks to animals or whatever else.