One possible benefit is that I have had plenty of time to give due weight to the feelings and impressions that I had upon wrapping up my manic playthrough all those months ago. While I have revisited it briefly for the purposes of this review, such a long lapse of time between my completion of the title and a serious attempt to transcribe my thoughts on it comes with both costs and benefits, depending upon one’s perspective. It was last May, in fact, when many of us had far too much time on our hands due to the global pandemic, that I sank around 150 hours into this game in a roughly two-week period. The point is simply this: RPGs often include many, if not all, of these elements, different ones tending to lean into particular aspects more than others, and Divinity: Original Sin 2 was fairly distinct with regards to the types of RPGs that I have previously played (specifically, JRPGs and ARPGs, including those mentioned).Ī second caveat that I want to introduce is that it’s been nearly a year since I was really in the trenches of Divinity: Original Sin 2’s vast single-player campaign. However, my aim here is not to delineate every kind of RPG on the market. ‘tactical’ or ‘strategy role-playing games’), oftentimes marked for their turn-based battle systems that revolve primarily around long, drawn-out skirmishes which require careful consideration of strategy amid a fluid battlefield where terrain may be as much of a factor as weather visibility. With that in mind, Divinity: Original Sin 2 is arguably more of an RPG than the games that I have long associated with the term, whether Japanese RPGs like the Final Fantasy or Tales series, which place greater emphasis on your party members and typically unfold their narratives, as well as character progression, in a more linear fashion or Action RPGs, which include games like Diablo or The Elder Scrolls and emphasize fast-paced, real-time combat these can be further distinguished from TRPGs or SRPGs (‘i.e. As far as I can tell, what separates a CRPG from other titles that fall under the ‘RPG’ umbrella is a heavier focus on customisation, decision-making, and tactics-based combat.
Franchises like Baldur’s Gate (of which Larian Studios is developing the forthcoming third instalment, now in its early access stage), Pillars of Eternity, or Wasteland-to cite a few-are basically foreign to me.
The first is that I have never played any of Larian Studios’ previous Divinity games, or even other ‘CRPGs’ that might be considered within the same ballpark (the ‘C’ once stood for ‘computer’ but has since been broadened to refer to ‘classic role-playing games’). I feel as though I should include a few caveats in this review of Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition.
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