Divinity: Original Sin 2 Hands-On - Doubling Down on Deep Roleplaying
Racial traits, origin stories and more.
By Vince Ingenito The fear I always have with huge, almost impenetrably deep RPGs like Divinity: Original Sin is that their developer will start making the assumption that they’d sell more copies if they just made their game simpler. Larian Studios’ amazing take on the Baldur’s Gate formula was one complex beast, and I would have bet the farm that they’d "streamline" Divinity: Original Sin 2 to make it more palatable to a broader audience.
I would have lost a lot of money.
In what seems like a bold, even brazen move, Larian has doubled down with Original Sin 2, providing more ways to mold your character, more ways to get into trouble, and more ways to fight your way out of it.
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