The game looks incredible, but my god is it ever BORING. Starts off quite nicely but as soon as you hit the first town prepare to hit a brick wall of boring dialogue, tedius inventory management, confusing quests that require you to talk to dozens of boring NPCs that give very vague clues, and the slowest waste of time you can possibly imagine.
Don't waste your time and money on this. You might want to keep going to try to get the point when it "gets good", but it doesn't. The art may look great but its the worst gameplay experience. Basically crap in a very fancy looking package.
So, this game. It's okay. Not the best game in the world, but no the worst. It would sit at a comfortable 3 stars if they iron out the game-breaking bugs.
The game looks okay, with nice blur effects at certain zoom levels, but the world feels extremely clunky to move in, and your character constantly looks like they've shit themselves when running. It looks off.
Gameplay, while fun, feels extremely limiting and hard to use, you'll find yourself constantly moving to the wrong location because the pointer decides to move when you click, as well as spells snapping to targets when you don't want them too. When it works, which is rarely, it does come together nicely and showcases what they advertise.
The characters are dull, un-interesting and riddled with cliches. No sooner do you meet someone they pour their life story out as if you know them, and each character is a cliche of their archetype. Dwarf loves beer and fighting, elf is aloof and danagerous, you dont get the idea of unqiue people, you just get - oh that's an elf gonna be weird and shit.
I can deal with the above, but what drags this games score down are the bugs.
I play with a mouse only, maybe using wsad to move the camera. The spells do not seem to work correctly with the mouse and by that I mean, if you click your spell bar, 6/10 times it will recognize the input and then you can cast on yourself. The rest of the time however you'll find yourself moving and wasting your turn because the game ate your input.
Have had this happen over 8 times now, and moving instead of casting wastes my turn, and usually ends with a party wipe after.
all in all, do not buy the game in it's current state, wait for patches and a reduced price, not worth it yet.
Excellent game, even with some bugs that will probably be addressed in patches. I expect modders to improve this game even more.
120 hours, fun game, kept me coming back for more.
Pros
1. Good story
2. great locations
3. good characters
4. Fun battle system
Cons
1. some quests not clear about objectives, or outright broken
2. Too much googling needed to find out what's wrong, only to see it's a bug
3. last act in Arx is not as good as first two acts.
A great experience and will replay.
This is the first 'turn base' combat game that I really enjoyed, in consequence I took the time to explore everything it offered. The result was a very interesting experience, conflictual, but worth it.
The 'narrator' concept is brilliantly implemented, I really didn't feel the need for animations while interactig with the world's characters. It was the hook that kept me going while I started playing. It just 'works', I don't remember any other rpg game that implemented it like this...
The story is complex and interesting. Maybe it gets a little too twisted at times, but the 'script' is very well written so it's a pleasure.
The combat system gives such an immense freedom that you can only applaud it's creators. The drawback, at least for me, was the difficulty and the time invested in each battle. I don't have a lot of free time...and if you make mistakes (which you will) and you have to re-battle, well, it can take up to 1h+ , in some cases, for one battle. This was the conflictual part - oh, and the fact that sometimes I just don't see some darn levers, that are too blended in the environment ..really frustrating-
As a side note, I found it to be more ballenced if I play in 'explorer' mode and fight with levels greater than mine (up to 2 points), otherwise it's too easy. It's just tad easier than 'classic' mode while fighting with the same level. (throughout the game I constantly changed difficulty in order to find a ballanced combat enjoyable for me)
So get it, try it, enjoy it!
Divinity 2 is an excellent RPG. Plenty of ways to customize your character, plenty of ways to customize your party, large game length, plenty of interesting quests and locations and NPCs to meet. You might be a little overwhelmed at the start by the options and history/ lore but rest assured you don't need to of played Divinity 1 or any of the other games- the game stands on it's own and things will fall into place later in the game. The game also has excellent replay ability and has improved on a number of things since the first game. Larine has improved on a number of things since the games initial release with free add-ons.
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