No one said becoming a God would be easy but no one said it would be this Goddamn hard either. Sometimes just deciding on how you want the story to advance is pretty damn difficult. Exploring can lead you to great reward but also to instant deaths as a hidden failed perception check will see your high level wizard fall victim to a spike trap or a surprise Voidwoken ambush. Your party will almost always be outnumbered by varied enemies with just as many deadly attacks as your party members have. Not just in terms of combat but in exploration and storytelling terms as well.
One thing potential Divinity players should know is that these game, particularly the Original Sin off-shoots, are hard. It’s fairly rote by High Fantasy standards but points for including lizard people and a well-defined magic system that feels separate from the elemental one used by the games’ regular, non-Sourcerer characters. Possessed of a dormant power called Source you must break your chains, escape the island and become an all-powerful being known as the Divine to push back the darkness of the Void. Either way the game begins with you on a ship bound for the prison colony of Fort Joy. You can also create your own character but that shuts off the Origin Character stories. Set in the world of Rivellon centuries after the first game players assume control of one of six characters known as ‘Godwoken’: Ifan Ben-Mezd, a human mercenary Sebille, an escaped Elven slave-assassin Beast, a Dwarf pirate-rebel the Red Prince, a banished lizard noble Fane, the last surviving member of a skeletal race known as Eternals or Lohse, a human bard open to possession.
But Divinity: Original Sin 2 is different and I’m not entirely sure why.
They join numerous RPGs like XCOM 2 or Divinity: Original Sin that I consider to be either too frustratingly difficult or not compelling enough to continue with.
Dark Souls II, Sekiro, Resident Evil 6, Blasphemous and all three remastered Crash Bandicoot games are just a few I’ve left by the wayside. I’ve enjoyed plenty of games that I’ve left unfinished because of a boss stonewalling, poor platforming or just bad and repetitive story beats. At least not when it comes to video games.
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