Posted on: February 27, 2022
bemuhe
Games: 226 Reviews: 5
It's a sin, but "original" is dubious.
The high rating and enthusiastic reviews of this game might lead you to suppose that whatever little flaws it has will be minor enough to be buoyed up by the excellent quality of the thing as a whole. For many people, evidently, this is the case. It really boggles the mind. It's almost as astounding as I the 4.3 star rating of this game is suspicious. Almost, but not quite. Many of these reviews, both professional reviews and the reviews on this website, refer often to the humor in Divinity: Original Sin. As was I, you might find yourself guilty of thinking these people are implying that some degree of wit, of sharp dialogue, or of clever situational irony is present in the game. That is not the case, oh no; not at all. By humor they mean "silly voice acting, rattling off banter that was tired well before this game came out, and doing it non-stop. All the time." Divinity may have a great many excellent things about it - although these things might not have been overly keen to present themselves to me during our time together - but thoughtful writing is very much not one of them by any stretch. Regarding the atmosphere, let me give you an example of the profound level of imagination and immersive world building you're going to be faced with here: in the opening moments of the game it's revealed that you've been sent to investigate the murder of someone named: ...and I swear I'm not making this up... he's called "Sir Jake". And it's consistently like that; or at least I can verify that it was written like that up to the point where I couldn't bear to see any more and threw in the towel. I have no wish to insult the audience that appreciates this sort of thing - everyone has a right to their own pleasures. But, if your pleasure happens to depends to any degree at all on sophisticated writing, please be aware that you will not find it here.
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