#DIVINITY ORIGINAL SIN HIDE HELMET PC#

So far, the extra quests and dialogue feel right at home, and the addition of dual-wielding has made my rogueish spellcaster even more formidable. ThereвЂ™s still a garbage dumpвЂ™s worth of shit that I havenвЂ™t in Divinity. IвЂ™m no Chris Carter, so I canвЂ™t finish a 100 hour game in two days. The environmental/elemental battles always find a way to remain exciting. Each time my brother covered an orc in oil and I set him ablaze, we high-fived like a couple of douches.

Turn-based combat doesnвЂ™t seem like it would flow as well, but it does. The co-op conversations, in which your main characters can agree, disagree, argue, and jest with one another, eventually leading to traits that have a tangible effect, are perfect for couch sessions. Now that almost every NPC is voiced, the world feels even more alive and personable. Divinity: Original Sin вЂ“ Enhanced EditionВ is one of those rare fantasy RPGs that has charm, charisma, and doesnвЂ™t feel completely generic. Overall, I wouldnвЂ™t call these controls unwieldy so much as inconvenient.Д«ut if you can manage to acclimate to these puppetsвЂ™ strings, thereвЂ™s a fantastic game underneath. It does work better if you use the point and click control scheme, which I found myself utilizing often. That is entirely too many commas and clauses to complete an action that youвЂ™ll do often. Instead of just clicking and dragging it out of your way, you have to hold down that search button, choose the item, go to a separate small menu, choose move, and then determine where youвЂ™d like to place said item. Moving items out of your way is probably the offensive activity here. Unfortunately, even with hands-off experience I know how much faster that can be, and in a game as large as this one, poor inventory accessibility goes from a wrinkle to a wound after awhile.

#DIVINITY ORIGINAL SIN HIDE HELMET PC#

If you hadnвЂ™t played the PC version before youвЂ™d probably think it was a little slow but nothing out of the ordinary. Holding down the X button brings up a search circle around you so that you can look at multiple items simultaneously, which minimizes minutia but still isnвЂ™t completely ideal. While the presentation is pleasant (little chests, barrels, and gore piles show up as a cute lilвЂ™ grid when you look through them), picking up items can be a tad tedious. Combat is easy enough to handle, with multiple radial menus and shortcuts providing quick-enough means to an end.ДЄn RPG can live or die by its inventory, and Divinity: Original SinВ was never exceptionally manageable in the first place. This effectively allows you to maneuver your avatars like a point and click RPG and is blessing when you want to go to the bathroom while you traverse to the other side of a map. You can move your character around with the left thumbstick, or you can click it to create a small cursor. There were multiple times in the ten or so hours we played where he would be in town and IвЂ™d be fighting enemies on a distant beach.Д¬ontrolling characters works better than expected in that it actually works without making me want to throw my controller into the toilet in exchange for a mouse and keyboard. I also didnвЂ™t anticipate being able to wander so far away from you partner. This can be jarring if you separate and rejoin multiple times in rapid successionВ (imagine someone flailing their hands in front of your face really fast to obscure your vision), but it otherwise works surprisingly well. Split-screen co-op functions much like ToeJam & EarlВ from back in the day: both players share a screen when theyвЂ™re close to one another, but if they drift far enough away, the screen splits and each player has their own camera to control. Here we are a year and change later, with two controllers, a couch, and some thoughts.

We wanted to play together, but didnвЂ™t have two computers capable of running the game at the time. Though I didnвЂ™t play much of the original ( PatrickвЂ™s review is here!) when it played last year, I enviously watched over my brotherвЂ™s shoulder while he played through the slick cRPG. Once I finished my slog through the Sword Coast, I could revisit Rivellon in Divinity: Original Sin вЂ“ Enhanced Edition. While playing through the lukewarm Sword Coast LegendsВ last week, I kept telling myself there was a light at the end of the tunnel.

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