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The Autosave is sparse, so if you’re not careful you can lose a fair amount of progress by blundering around too hastily. Because there’s no clear path through the game and very little signposting, it’s easy to stumble directly into a fight you’ve no chance of winning. The environments are sprawling, multi-levelled areas shrouded in the classic Fog of War. Even on Classic Mode battles can be trying, let alone Tactician Mode (which comes with an permadeath option, natch), and you’ll want to make friends with the Quicksave as early as possible. An Ability Points system limits your movements and actions, and forces you to consider every turn carefully and, where possible, plan ahead. There are so many skills, spells and elements to consider, along with distance to enemy, status effects, terrain, and elevation. Turn-based and tactical, combat is complicated and challenging in Divinity Original Sin 2, even when you’ve passed the 15 hour mark.

You’ll spend as much time trying to sneak or talk your way out of combat as you will fighting, but the enemy encounters are often exhilarating affairs that marry elements of Dragon Age: Origins and Baldur’s Gate. Different elements combine with varying effects during combat, so you can ignite oil patches, or freeze and electrify characters standing in puddles of water.

Or you can split your memory slots evenly and, I don’t know, chloroform an enemy before setting them on fire.

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Say, for instance, you have points in both Pyrokinesis and Scoundrel if you want to go the sneaky route exclusively, you’ll need to unlearn your fire spells to free up slots. It’s aided by a unique skill system that requires you to spend points in a character’s Memory attribute to allow them to learn more skills associated with their chosen creeds. It’s a deep system, and one that will require a fair amount of scrutiny to get the best of. Further to this are skills that grant buffs to your character and the party, such as Leadership or Thievery. Then there are talents like Scoundrel that allow you backstab and pilfer, or Polymorph, which literally lets you turn enemies (even bosses) into chickens.

Dungeon rats might give you clues to escape routes, while whole mini-quests revolve around conversations with cats and dogs. It’s the talents, social and combat-based, that really change the game.įor example, Pet Pal is a social talent, which allows you to talk directly to any animal in the game, including some that would be enemies otherwise. You can alter this as you play, so it really only determines your initial skills and weaponry. From there it’s into the sprawling skill system, as you alter attributes (the usual Strength, Intelligence, Finesse, etc…) and pick a starting class.

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You can select a starting class, plus associated skills and traits, but the stories and appearances remain the same.Īlternatively, you can create your own unique character from four races and undead variants of each (equalling eight options), and then adjust their looks and choose a name. Finally, there’s Beast, a dwarven sea captain who’s cousin is a tyrannical queen, and Fane – an undead Eternal who’s so distanced from humanity he’s essentially a sociopath. There’s Sebille, the psychotic elf who seeks revenge against the slaver who disfigured her, or the Red Prince, a haughty Lizard warrior who wants to reclaim his throne Ifan is a former hero turned assassin, while Lohse is a conjurer possessed by a demonic spirit. They’re a mixed bunch, but they’re all utterly brilliant. The five you don’t choose become potential companions on your subsequent quest.

You can, if you wish, choose from any of six pre-fabricated characters with their own established “Origin” stories, which serve as extensive subplots to the primary narrative of your rise to become the next Divine, a kind of magical Messiah. The very first choice you make in the game is a pretty huge one, as you’re faced with the expansive character creator. Suffice to say, these early choices are really just a taste of things to come, but I was hooked right away.īut I’m running ahead of myself.

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If you take the latter, this area acts as a tutorial of sorts, familiarising you with the basic commands and giving you a subsequent series of choices involving a prisoner in the hold and the guard watching him. Waking up tied to a surgical bench aboard a prison ship transporting “Source-users” (that’s mages, essentially) to the ironically named Fort Joy, your avatar is immediately faced with the first of a growing stack of choices: follow instructions and leave the room, or explore a little first. Divinity: Original Sin 2 lets you know it means business in the first few minutes of its story.