Adramahlihk always has the first move since his initiative is insane so for 30 seconds I watched him piling up Epidemic of Fire and other mass murder stuff onto my poor melting party. I came to talk to him and the dialogue was triggered when my party was standing in the doorway. It always annoyed the living hell out of me but the frustration reached its peak at the end of Lohse's personal quest where you battle the archdemon Adramahlihk and the nurses. I'm getting destroyed just because the boss always moves first and I have to resort to save-loading. I should be in a more or less equal position with a boss and either win or lose based on my strategical decisions. You load up your game and, knowing the enemies' positions, spread out your party so you won't get wiped immediately, and then trigger the fight. By the time you finally get to do anything, your party has been bombarded with mass murder spells and mass melee skills and you'll be lucky if half your party makes it to your first turn. At this moment your party stands in one spot and waits. Your initiative is always lower so the boss gets the first turn. It's not much of a problem when you traverse the map but when it's boss battle time it just becomes one of the most frustrating things. You can't see your opponents since they spawn out of thin air as soon as you trigger the battle, or the battle is triggered during dialogue when you don't expect it. The main issue with the battles in DOSII is simple: you can't prepare for them. Gameplay You aren't really ambitious, are you Lohse was the leader of the party, the other three were Fane, the Red Prince and Ifan. I know that Divinity: Original Sin II is a critical darling and everybody loves this game. This post will contain both gameplay and story-related spoilers. It made me realize that I wasted so many hours ultimately for nothing. I finished Divinity: Original Sin II but in the end I got more negative emotions out of it than positive and the ending - any of them - just felt like a spit in the face. Alas, the more I played, the more frequent the frustration was, and every time it got worse. Sometimes the game would just force me into using the atrocious trading interface and I would spend an hour managing my inventory.Įvery time I thought: it would be the last time, it would get easier the more I progress, maybe I am to blame and I'm just not playing it right.
Every few hours the game would toss at me something foul: a bug, a weird quest, limitations, an imbalanced fight where my party would get wiped before its first turn.
However, the more I played the more the game seemed to be pulling me into some weird kind of emotional swings: I would play several hours and enjoy it wholeheartedly before being thrown into some kind of ultra frustrating episode.
The contrast was stunning: the combat was indeed fun and dynamic, the map gained verticality, you could now move almost freely around the battlefield and had more action points per turn. If you don't enjoy the game you're playing - better leave it to someone who would and find a new one. The plot did not pique my interest either and I decided that was enough. Combat was a suffocating drag with a remarkable potential to be anything but that, I had a fairly mediocre party setup and I couldn't find any way to respec my characters. Then I learned that nowadays you can forget all that old nonsense and just jump into Original Sin because OS is the RPG gem of your dreams.Īs usual, I decided to start from the start and wasted about 30 hours in Divinity: Original Sin before abandoning it for good. All in all, I can't say that my relationship with this franchise was positive or consistent, for that matter. A really long time ago I played Divine Divinity, a diablo-ish hack'n'slash, about 8 years ago I picked up Divinity II but didn't like it. Time and time again people recommended The Source Saga to me, especially DOSII, and I have never heard a bad thing said about this game. I try to remember these games and come back as soon as I get the opportunity because I don't like unfinished adventures.ĭivinity: Original Sin II was one of those games. Unfortunately, sometimes I can't: either my game of the year comes out, or people hook me up on some other game that I decide to play immediately. I try my hardest to finish every game I start if I really like it.
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