Except it’s actually more like XCOM, as it takes into account defensive terrain and elevation, as well as pools of water or oil that can be exploited by magic users with elemental powers.Īll of this is just as challenging as it sounds, but there is a difficulty setting that allows you to make it almost trivial, so you can just concentrate on the story instead.
The combat, for example, at first seems a fairly ordinary turn-based battle system.
But that’s really only the start, as Original Sin II layers on additional mechanics that could almost be their own game. The game would be extraordinary if it stopped there, the size and complexity of the game world allowing for the narrative depth of a Telltale graphic adventure but within a giant open world arena. Or, like any other aspect of the game, you can just skip all that if it doesn’t interest you and use pre-set characters instead. Many modern role-playing games focus on combat above all, but here you’re given as many other options as possible, from stealth to smooth-talking, and are left free to specialise in whatever suits your play style best. Although here, as with everything else, the game goes a step further and allows you to create your own classes and character types, all of which function perfectly no matter how bizarre they seem. And yet here they’re just optional extras you could play the whole game without ever discovering.Īs you’d expect of any hardcore role-playing game the character creation tools are pleasingly involved, with different sets of combat and social skills, Source magic, and multiple class types from the obvious classics to those unique to Original Sin II. The game introduces powers like teleportation, or talking to both ghosts and animals, that other developers would have based a whole game around. The writing and voice-acting for all this is surprisingly good, considering developer Larian is just a small Belgian indie studio, but while you can talk or sneak your way out of many fights that’s far from the only option. Or, alternatively, convincing you to just give up on it all and go full evil. Often times this ends up denying you a potential new side quest, but you also feel the game affecting your world view, tempting you into being a better and more tolerant person. So many times you end up killing people only to later find out they are considerably more sympathetic, or at least complex, than you first assumed. Divinity: Original Sin II (PC) – the combat could almost be its own game
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