Combat is quite enjoyable in this title and on Classic Mode does offer a challenge, nothing insurmountable for people with CRPG experience, but some poor choices can result in defeat or dead characters rather quickly. Story Mode was added as a new difficulty option, which as the name implies allows players to focus on the narrative aspects of Divinity: Original Sin II. The dialogue trees and narrative aspects were among what made this title great and it’s impressive that Larian Studios went to such effort to revamp this feature. The bulk of which was done toward the end of the game to improve the narrative but some alterations appear throughout all stages of the game. Out of the original fully-voiced script that contained over one million words there are approximately 100,000 new or newly-recorded words.

The changes don’t take away from the original’s greatness, but mainly attempt to further refine the experience. The Definitive Edition changes are available as a free update for current owners of the game PC. As good as this might sound, Larian Studios wanted to improve the game and gave it a massive overhaul on PC before porting it to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 as Divinity: Original Sin II Definitive Edition.ĭivinity: Original Sin II Definitive Edition is an improved version of the 2017 edition and quite a bit of information about that game can be found in our review. Divinity: Original Sin II was one such game to reach this lofty benchmark and with a Metacritic score of 93 we aren’t the only outlet that enjoyed this title.

There’s been few games throughout the years that Hardcore Gamer has awarded a 5/5, and while these rare gems exemplify what their respective genres are capable of and are excellent, must-play titles could benefit from the ever slightest tweaking, even though their high quality leaves no room for complaints. Part of why perfect scores are given so rarely is that no game is ever perfect.

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