First Impressions - Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

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We bought a new game yesterday. Found it in the used section of gamestop and googled a little on the phone. The impression I got was that it was some kind of Diablo clone and we both loved Diablo 3 on the Xbox 360. Said and done, we bought it.

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition is NOT Diablo. Not even close! Had I known that the battle was turn based I would have left it in the store... Luckily I didn't.

Character creation

We spent a total of 15 minutes here the first time. Mostly because of a phone call, but also thanks to all the available options. .

Start of the game

The game starts and we are lost! What do we do now? Going through the controls and trying to figure out stuff. After some wandering we encounter our first enemy and it turns out that the game is turn based! What?

We both feel a little lost in with the combat system, when the encounter is over one of our hand controls dies and we restart the game a couple of times before we fingure out how to start split screen again, Evidently its the '' button. Bad design is that the characters are moved around to the player that has a working controller, and before we find the menu where to assign characters to players again a lot of time passes.

After that we find the entrance to the 'Tutorial Dungeon'.

Moving through the dungeon things start to make sense and the controls are hammered into our fingers. A lot of the game mechanics are described in a neat and time compact way. So there, a little bit of new gear and experience, but most of all a playable game.

First impressions

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition is not a Diablo clone, more like an arcade version of Baldurs Gate. The coming few weeks will kind of give the ultimate review in the form 'if we play it again'.

Until next time: Work to Live, Don’t Live to Work