Reviewing as someone who's never touched a Divinity game before.
GOOD
It's a CRPG that's excellent on the gamepad. I have over 150 hours in this title and have never felt the want of a mouse-and-keyboard.
Excellent production values. The music and graphics are colorful, atmospheric, and full of flavor. You explore an Alcatraz for wizards, a wide-open countryside, and a tropical island with temple-ruins all beautifully rendered.
Highly versatile gameplay. There's tactical combat that lets you alter the playing-field, and there's a ton of options to resolve quests peacefully; like having a skeleton pick a lock with their fingers, pick-pocketing or teleporting a key item out of an enemy's possession, sneaking past or persuading a foe, turning invisible and so on. Sequence-breaking is highly encouraged.
High amount of customization available. You can freely respec your characters and try out all kinds of builds.
MIXED
The enemy AI can be contentious as it is 100% pragmatic. Like a Chess-bot it will calculate the perfect way to screw you, made worse the number of times you can get wiped out before you can act. This can be a headache to the extent that you're better off out-leveling or cheesing the opposition to win.
LAME
The last 10% of the game takes place in the crummy city of Arx, which suffers from many grueling and cheap fights unless you read ahead and cheese the system. You will be starved for XP just to hit level 20 for the final boss.
I had a use to mod to downplay the extreme power-scaling. A level 17 party will have no chance against a level 19 enemy. By the endgame you will have to replace 40+ pieces of randomly-generated gear every time you level up. This has the effect of making the game more linear and cumbersome than it needs to be.
OVERALL
I do strongly recommenced Original Sin 2, with the caveat being you use the reduced-number bloat mod to shave off hours of needless item management. It's quite hard, often unnecessarily so, but the sheer amount of freedom in it's problems has me coming back unlike most other role-playing games.
VideoGame 90% of a Masterpiece.
Reviewing as someone who's never touched a Divinity game before.
GOOD
MIXED
LAME
OVERALL
I do strongly recommenced Original Sin 2, with the caveat being you use the reduced-number bloat mod to shave off hours of needless item management. It's quite hard, often unnecessarily so, but the sheer amount of freedom in it's problems has me coming back unlike most other role-playing games.