Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

This is an incredibly good title in which I spent over 150h of good quality playtime. The mechanics are well polished, the story and characters are interesting, and you can easily find yourself living the whole weekend inside its world. Totally recommended.

I ran this on linux mint, so be forewarned. Ran like a charm for me. I think it might have crashed once, during two whole playthroughs. Okay, the story was a bit incoherent and not up to Larian's usual standards but it was still better than 90% of the dross out there so until I can only take off half a star, I'll let it slide because the rest of the game was just *so darned fun!* The companions were not deep but they were enjoyable with their own sidequests and bits of input into the main characters and quest. There were some fetch quests, but some were deep and others fed directly into the main plot--making the main story more interesting that it otherwise, might have been. The battle mechanics were well...joyous. Blast baddies off a cliff, rain down a firestorm, make enemies slip n slide on ice puddles while another party member hacks them down, use the environment to your advantage in a tough battle and turn the tides on their ambush of your party... Absolutely great replayability although not much of the story will change. It can be played through with a weaker party for those who want to play for characterization as well, or instead of pure battle and for me, that is the mark of a well-made game. It's Larian goodness through and through so whether you're new to Larian games or have played many of them--this is a good choice. It has plenty of Larian's famous quirkiness and hours of entertainment for players of all stripes.

i would highly recommend this game to anyone who likes rpgs.

Literally half of this game is inventory management. The excess of loot and bad inventory management system slow the pace of the game and ruin the experience. They force players to spend time on checking hundreds of containers and dozens of items from each vendor, as they get randomized every level and every hour, with usually worthless combinations, especially that some possible stats, as well as unlocking a spell through an item, are completely useless. One of the secret rooms is a library that has over 100 lootable places. The worst part is that some places actually contain crucial quest items. I was only able to complete the game after creating a 2-man lone wolf party so that I don't need to bother with this loot system as much.

Character creation has issues. The game will warn you if you remove points from your class’s primary skill. If you switch weapon skills you will get no warning, and your automatic load out of weapons will not update, so you will be suboptimal. The camera options are a mess, requiring you to zoom in and out to see everything. This made it a pain to find loot. After an hour of playing I finally got a tutorial notice of the key combination that highlights treasure in your area. You still need to zoom in and out to be able to pick up your loot. The first companion I found had such a backstory I had to look her up online to confirm she wasn’t a trap. The next one had an incongruous Texan accent in a fantasy game, with a kill-em-all approach that seemed a bad stereotype. I was very disappointed when the game revealed its “Save the universe” plot, moreso as it bears an uncanny resemblance to a storyline DC Comics published nearly a decade before the game was released. One of the two all-powerful beings you meet contradicts herself in her first few lines of dialogue, creating a plot hole. After this you are set on a quest that leads you into teleporting into a room where a woman is bathing, and apparently you are to enjoy being humiliated by this event. This also introduces you to the odd game mechanic of having to rock-paper-scissors for social interactions it is entirely possible for your main characters to have to R-P-S each other in arguments, where the computer acts for one of your characters. I encountered a orc. The game tries to make you feel bad if you decide to fight the monster that is resting a few dozen feet away from the mutilated bodies of the people you are to protect, all having been killed by orcs. The dialogue after the fight indicates the orc is a “citizen” instead of an orc, so maybe someone screwed up programming the game here. After an undetectable trap killed my party I gave up on this game. Learn from my mistake and do not buy.