Divinity: Original Sin

Game Info

Gather your party and get ready for a new, back-to-the-roots RPG adventure! Discuss your decisions with companions; fight foes in turn-based combat; explore an open world and interact with everything and everyone you see. Join up with a friend to play online in co-op and make your own adventures with the powerful RPG toolkit. Divinity: Original Sin is a game that gives you a lot of freedom and plenty of gameplay mechanics to use or abuse. The game's epic story may drive you toward your ultimate end-goal, but how you get there is entirely up to you. Or up to you and a friend, because Divinity: Original Sin can be played completely cooperatively, and features both online and local drop-in/drop-out multiplayer. Great adventures become even greater when shared with a trusted comrade-in-arms!

Name

Companies

Larian Studios

Released

6/30/2014

Platforms

Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)

Type

Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie

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Reviews

Monday, October 28, 2024 7:25:38 AM

23 Steam users votes up

Jetblankey

Steam user

It's very sad to say, but the whole purpose of this character is just to annoy you and making some quests half impossible to complete.
What he does in the game is basically only following you all the time no matter where you are or what would happen by his actions, and he doesn't provide any aid or support in your battles either.
And unlike the other companions or NPCs, even if there are visible traps, he never avoids those and runs straight to you although he is supposed to be a very smart wizard. It would have been more understandable if he were some kind of baby squirrel knight who is a bit clumsy or something (He could have been more adorable and forgivable, I guess), but he is a very old squirrel knight / wizard who believes he is much smarter than humans or the others.
Then as you can imagine, it doesn't really matter how careful you are, he triggers all of the traps around you and this could actually kill the whole of your party by making the field blazing fire.
So although his personality might be fine as it is (I actually don't even dislike him. He has a nice personality), when it's connected with this stupidity, his arrogant attitude becomes quite annoying to be honest.
And there are some puzzles in the game which would be almost impossible to solve because of this behaviour since he stands on random pressure plates all the time while we need to stand on only certain ones. I don't really understand why there is no "Unchain" function for him while we can do it with the other companions.
And also, although he sometimes gives you recipes of some skill books, there are no unique skills or anything, so the ones he gives you are all available without him.
Lastly, while he has lots of dialogues, there is no actual story / quest / event at all.
Therefore, he is practically just a very very long flavour text who can ruin your game experiences.
It could have been better if he had some real stories connected to the main ones and he could actually fight along with us. Probably in the last act or so, so the adventure with him would be much more rewarding.
I imagine how exciting it could have been if he could really find what he was looking for in the end and uses his unique powerful spell toward our enemies. It would have been really cool, but the truth is, there is nothing.
Very disappointing.