What an incredible turn based RPG. I've spent just less than one thousand hours on this masterpiece which means its my most played Singleplayer game in my adult life (admittedly some hours were playing multiplayer with friends but still). Now there's no way that I'm going to be able to list all the good things about this game in one review, but I'll try my best and highlight some really good aspects to hopefully encourage anyone reading this to give it a go.

Pros -
Firstly, the music in this game is AMAZING. It either sounds completely badass for fights or incomparably elegant for exploring the world. There were so many times during my many playthroughs that I had to make the decision of either humming along to the music or letting my ears fully embrace those beautiful instruments.

Visually this game is stunning, the details in the world and the particle effects of abilities/spells look so well done and make it feel so satisfying when you cast them. I also really appreciate that this games movement is very freeing for a turn based RPG. I've always disliked those games where movement is restricted to like a chess board with squares. Having your characters quite literally being able to move anywhere feels so much better.

Next up, the story. EVERYTHING has lore in this game. If you love reading and want to read pages and pages of lore, character backgrounds and potentially hundreds of books scattered across the game, then you can most definitely do so. But its not forced onto you. Most books that you find throughout the game aren't necessary to progress, and a lot of the time there will be an option to resolve problems by fighting if you prefer a little more action. Its completely up to you how you want to play.

Lastly, I want to talk about the character creation. The character creation in Divinity is phenomenal. Obviously you can change the look of your character to how you want but more importantly, there are 10 Skill categories that you can allocate points to. You can mix and match them together and pair them with *mostly* any type of weapon in the game. The combinations you can make are endless. For example:

Want to be a persuasive fire-wizard that uses daggers instead of the usual staff/wands?
Want to be a non-confrontational thief that escapes his enemies by turning the floor to ice causing them to slip?
Want to be an archer that fires love arrows to temporarily make his enemies fight for him?
Want to be a cleric wielding a giant axe who can explode corpses?

Well you can have all 4 in the same party! I could talk about this game for hours but at the time of writing this these are the aspects of the game that came to mind. Now I'll talk a little bit about some very minor ♥♥♥♥ that don't put the game in any bad light but I feel are good to know anyways.

Very Minor ♥♥♥♥ -

Gift Bags: If you don't care about achievements then move onto the next ♥♥♥ -- Gift bags are the developers way of giving their own made mods for divinity. They are free little game mechanics that you can choose whether to enable in your game or not. (I highly recommend that you do not enable any of these for your first playthrough as some make the game considerably harder/easier). Some of these settings are incredibly useful but the issue is since these are acted like mods, achievements are disabled if you enable them, so you will need to replay the game without them in order to gain any. I wish the devs would have actually implemented some of these into the base game rather than adding them as mod-like settings after.

Inventory: Inventory management in this game could be a liiiiiiittle better. There's nothing necessarily wrong with the inventory system, but there are definitely a few QOL changes that they could have added. One example being the ability to name bags. Throughout the game you will pick up individual bags that you can place in your inventory and put any item inside. They are incredibly useful in tidying up your inventory and reducing clutter, but these bags cannot be named. So you will end up having to repeatedly look inside each bag to find out which bags have which items. Additionally, when crafting stuff, if an ingredient is inside one of these bags, the crafted item may appear in the bag of the ingredient instead of just appearing at the bottom of your inventory for you to sort out. Again, not exactly a game-breaking problem but definitely slightly frustrating when you have lots of items in a bag and now need to find a random crafted item amongst them all.

Other than whats listed above I just wish the game never ended honestly. I want more cool spells, more races, more talents, more fights, MORE OF EVERYTHING. Truly a really incredible game, please give it a go because the developers deserve it.

Thanks for reading <3.

Peut être un des plus grand jeux vidéo de l'histoire et je pèse mes mots

Je ne sais pas si j'aime ou si je déteste D:OS2, je m'explique :
Les graphismes sont magnifiques, la BO est juste incroyable, le jeu est vivant, CHAQUE pnj a une histoire à lui, une histoire à raconter, qui peut être ensuite utilisé comme indice pour une quête, ou même en lancer une ! Les interactions avec l'environnement, les objets, les attitudes, les sorts, le gameplay, tout est libre pour que vous puissiez vous en servir comme vous voulez. Il faut aussi réfléchir à comment utiliser ces choses à votre avantage, que ça soi pour détruire des pièges, vous aider en combat, etc...
Pour les points négatifs :
C'EST LENT. Mon dieu que c'est lent. Sans déconner, vos personnages sont des 35 tonnes. Ne vous attendez pas à un gameplay nerveux et rapide, parce que ce n'est pas le cas.
Au sujet des quêtes, pour moi, elles sont bien trop nombreuses et s'entre-mêlent entre elles. Lors de votre arrivée dans Fort Joie, si vous vous baladez un peu et que vous parlez aux gens, vous vous retrouvez avec facile 20 quêtes, avec le fameux système de "si t'as pas fait celle-là tu vas être bloqué dans l'autre", et trouver la solution ou des indices peut parfois prendre des heures. J'ai dû malheureusement parfois aller voir des soluces tellement ça me rendait dingue.

Une dernière chose pour moi qui me freine, c'est la difficulté des combats. Arrivé un certain moment du jeu, certains combats, pour moi, sont quasiment impossibles sauf RNG favorable des ennemis.
Pour prendre l'exemple qui m'a le plus marqué, je vais parler du combat dans les catacombes de Fort Joie, où vous cherchez des Magisters cherchant à déserter. Ce combat. CE. COMBAT. 30 essais. Les ennemis tapent bien plus fort que vous, sont plus nombreux, utilisent des AoE avec du DPT quasi impossible à tanker même avec un début de stuff. Impossible d'éviter les états, si vous utilisez vos PA pour vous déplacer, vous ne tapez pas et en + vous marchez dans poison+flamme, et si vous ne bougez pas pour pouvoir utiliser vos PA pour taper, les ennemis se feront une joie de profiter des AoE que vous leur donnez en restant pack. Et ne pensez pas qu'avec les lvls et le stuff, ça ira mieux, non. Je ne demande pas de OS tout le monde, mais de donner au moins UNE chance. Même le mode "facile" est une purge pendant les phases de combat. Même avec une stratégie pixel en utilisant le sneak avant d'engager, ça reste difficile. Très, peut-être même trop, pour un jeu comme celui-ci.
Malgré tout je continue d'y jouer, car l'histoire est bien écrite, mais je ne sais pas si j'arriverais à le terminer.