Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

This game is soo boring. Hardly any combat action. Just walking around and looking in boxes and barrels for things and a storyline I just don't care about. A complete waste of time and mone in my opinion..

An exercise in frustration. It starts out simple enough, but it heaps on annoyance after annoyance. The map interface is annoying to navigate. The world itself is nothing extraordinary, rather boring and forgettable. The main quest is standard fare, but hindered by the aforementioned annoyances. Combat is ridiculous, with even the most basic of mooks usually packing unlimited supplies of poison/fire/shock arrows and spells above what would be reasonable to expect, like random cultist mooks in a low level area packing petrification spells. Basically, crap that either shuts down at least one of your characters for several turns or piles ticking damage upon them with very limited ways of countering those effects. The game is also overly fond of throwing you into battles where you are outnumbered and where enemies pelt you with the aforementioned afflictions from beyond your reach. Enemies have way too many action points and for every move you make you can expect each of them to attack or fling spells at you twice. This brings us to the other major annoyance - the barrels. Someone at Larian must have some sort of fetish with barrels or spent an ungodly number of hours playing Donkey Kong because you will find barrels containing flammable oil or poison in the most ludicrous of places. Between this and the aforementioned arrows issue, you can expect battlegrounds to turn into burning infernos or poison swamps. This would not be so bad if you were able to properly exploit the elemental system, except for the fact that you don't have fire spells that early on and your supplies of arrows and grenades are limited. Boss fights are also extremely annoying. There is one fairly early in the game that has an attack that is basically a one hit kill and can chain, hitting more than one character at once. The one not long after that starts the fight by summoning more annoying mooks and flinging more burning crap right off the bat, before you even get to do anything.

This is a gem. I like turn based fights. Yes, Im a HOMM 3-7 fan. All of them. But: I spent more time on the Internet searching for clues on what to do than playing the game. No hints, no nada, no friendly way to discover the mechanics of the game, by actually playing the game. It is clear that the developer put a lot of love in building both the game and its world, but man, some of us are playing games for fun, not to build our lifes around them. I'll continue playing it, Ill buy the second one, and of course, Ill complain there too :))

I'm trying to avoid repeating what everyone has already said, but if for some reason you can't read other better reviews, in short - Excellent game, seems to modernise the classic RPG genre while doing its own thing, making it more accessible to new players, and is still a decent challenge for veterans. Engaging, unique and addictive combat that still holds true to its RPG roots but avoids the whole micro-managing aspect (relative to Baldur's Gate, that is), so it keeps the action going. Overall definitely worth it if you're a fan of RPG's, or if you want to enter the genre but don't want to start with the admittedly, beginner-unfriendly 'classics' of the genre. Now the reason for 4 stars and not 5 While it was great they added voice acting, some of the characters were enough to stop me playing the game. Their voices were so annoying and the very definition of over-acting, they caused me to rage quit. I would like to throw ZixZax and the potion lady from Cyseal into the void. Play the game and you'll know what I mean. While some people may like it, I found the overall tone of the game to be overtly twee. It's a very standard fantasy setting, with some interesting quirks thrown in, but in all honesty it was not to my taste. Not helped by the overly cartoonish graphics. Realise this style may be for some people, just not my cup of tea. Some broken quest design. Avoiding spoilers, there is something you need to do at the end which is not communicated to the player very well, even though its critical to do this throughout the entire game. It extends the length of the game considerably and really does require a walkthrough. Which brings me to my next two points. The game, in my humble opinion, goes on for too long. What feels like the end of the game just dragged on for me, such that by the actual end, I just didn't care. Finally, entertain yourself with the fanboys in forums blindly defending any issue you have with the game.

The game starts off really interesting and promising. Classic(ish) fantasy RPG, with a unique tactical, turn-based combat style. I really loved it. Pouring oil to the ground and make it burn with a fire arrow = fun. Soon after the tutorial part, you get to a city, which functions as a hub. You have a main mission: to investigate some murder case. Man, this was the point where it all started downhill. It was boring and unlogical (you have to break in and steal things to get evidences?? especially, since I was playing a knight, duh), and also you have to find manually some characters (there is no hint in which house they are living). At the end, you find some clues and your journey takes you outside the city walls. Wow, huge map, lot of things to explore, some fights finally, you think. But you soon realize that virtually you can go to one specific direction only, because in all the other directions you face higher level enemies who just kill you with one blow or two. So you have to figure out where you can go at your current level. It's kind of like a "pathfinding" - if you can't just slay your enemies in one route, you're going the wrong direction. Not fun. Ultimately, I've give up after Rex Braxxus, a map boss (I guess), who just killed my entire party with one touch. Okay, let's go elsewhere and I'll be back later, but soon after I've met a beefy mob who just killed my entire party, again. And that was the point I have had enough of looking for "the right path" to go. It's just meaningless and frustrating to have a huge map if you can't wander around, but you have to spend your time finding the right way.