Beyond Divinity

My bias is that I enjoy playing old isometric games. The story is fun with it's own charm. Much of the same mechanics from the previous game are in this one too. I would only recommend playing this one if you really enjoyed Divine Divinity and want to see the continuation of the story.

Really wish they still made games like this.

In Beyond Divinity, the arch demon Samuel has bound your soul to that of a Death Knight. While opposites in terms of alignment and personality, the two of you agree to work together to escape the curse. You choose one of three classes (though you can customize and mix them through your choices): Warrior, Wizard and Survivor (Rogue). As mentioned above, you also get the Death Knight as a henchman, and can use summoning dolls to get temporary party members. You can customize the skills of all of them. The game offers addictive action You can control either one of the characters, or both. The other character will auto-attack. I picked a Wizard for the main character and actively controlled the Death Knight. While the Death Knight ran around the enemies, my Wizard hit them with spells. While the action was a lot of fun, the game is more than just hack-and-slash. There are meaningful dialogue choices, puzzles to solve, etc. The graphics are quite good (check out the screenshots), though I would have preferred some more variation in the backgrounds. The music was nice and added to the immersion in the game. The voice-acting was also generally good, with some exceptions. Overall, this game should offer hours of fun to anyone looking for a good hack-and-slash with considerable depth.

I would love to buy the developers on this game a beer and talk about this game... or maybe they should buy me one??? I finished it and spent 63 hours of my life on this game. Like, I wanna know what happened between this and Divine Divinity. Can someone make a documentary on it. The plot is like a bad 80's fantasy film, I wanna know how it got green lit. The voice acting sounds like it was made in a parents basement, between two actors. Sometimes, it's not even the same voice between characters. I think you have to have a very particular love of CRPG's and maybe be over 30 to play this game. Sometimes it was fun to play, and had that go to a town, talk to people, do some quests feel that I don't get from something like mass effect in a snese. There was some cool references to Divine Dvinity, and I liked that it took place on another world. Sometimes, the puzzles or quests were so dumb or so broken, that I had to use multiple walkthroughs. Why did I finish this?? Sunk cost fallacy, and it was just so WEIRD on many levels.

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