Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

A detailed, complex RPG, with good characters and decent story and a beautiful world to explore. Veterans of the Divinty series are going to absolutely love it but new players might find the opening stages of the game frustrating due to the non-combat mechanics being poorly explained and early game combat being heavily weighted in favour of you opponents. To expand on these issues, the crafting system is simple but feels tacked on and completely irrrelivent, you will also need to seek out crafting materials if you want to make anything. it is also never explained in any way, even a simple quest requiring you to make a shirt would have been appreciated. You are never told that every almost every NPC can be traded with, easy enough to figure it out but this has causes another major issue especiialy in relation to the crafting system, if you want a needle to make a shirt? Have fun talking to every single NPC in the area to find who has a needle and then finding the other NPC who has some cloth. Now the combat, detailed and complex, great for Divinity veterans and hard core RPG gamers, a hellish frustration test for new players. Spells and abilites interact with each other in a variety of ways, figuring out combos is fun and interesting, sadly combat initiation is frustrating and will more than likey result in a few party wipes and resets, top of my list of issues is combat initiaion will likely involve your characters clumped togtether in a group and the first round will involve your entire party getting hit with muliple area of effect attacks, you will start yourt turn with no armor, a nice chunk of your health missing and possibly on fire. The worst part of all, you cannot reunite Buddy and Emmie. This point in particular Larian should ashamed of (there is a mod to fix it).

Started out fun, I really enjoyed the combat and story early on in Fort Joy. Then when the game moved to Act II, it was still quite a bit of fun but the story started to make no sense. Then when it moved to Act III, the combats became impossibly difficult unless you save scum and cheese your way through them. My spellcaster was a fire mage but everything was immune to fire, so I had to become a water mage. Really disappointing. Then in the final big showdowns, I was just ready for the game to end and finally threw in the towel with the finding the Red Princess dream portal mess. At that point, you pretty much have to go online and look up strategies for how to cheese through the combat. At that point, I figured I've got better things to do and gave up on finishing the game. There's some fun to be had in here, but I wouldn't suggest playing past Act II.

One of the best games I've played in a long time, after beating it my immediate reaction was to start up a second play throuhg. Boy am I glad I did, you miss so much playing through the first time, such a replayable game with a great amount of dpeth. Outside of the difficult settings being a little confusing, and a few gripes I think this is an instant classic that is going to be up there with the best CRPGs of all time. Can't wait for Baulders Gate 3, thanks Larian!!

The best RPG I've played in years. Challenging combat system, okay story. Still looking for a game as rich as Dragon Age Origins (turn based or not). This is as close as ever, but still not there.

This game is massively overrated. There are some decent elements, but overall, the technical realization of this game is underwhelming at some points - even 4 years after its completion (no updates? Shame on Larian). After the game somehow "forgot" two of my savegames after not playing for three hours and I would have had to repeat two crucial and difficult combats, I unistalled the game. Farewell.