So…Lucky for me some games are released in Asia first. I think this game was made by a German Developer so it was released in the UK and parts of Asia before the US release. This also holds true for Risen, which I played before the fix came out. The first release was too dark to play.

Now for Divinity (D2), I have never played the original and never even heard of it. It may have came out in 2002 on the PC. The only reason I wanted to play this game is because I like RPGs and I saw I can turn into a dragon. AWESOME!!! Now even though I really enjoyed this game I will have to start with the CONs because these are what hit you in the face when you start playing. The game doesn’t really get enjoyable until you are a little deep into.

CONs
The graphics could be a hell of a lot better. They are decent but the cut scenes are PC port overs that have been dumbed down. The characters look decent. The world is huge and looks pretty vibrant but no where close to what Oblivion looked like. I will go on record to say this is one of the hardest games I have ever played. I think besides the graphics this will be the biggest drawback. Hard to the point you may want to stop playing. But since it takes you a while to get to the point where you can be a dragon, I played on. What makes it hard is you will come to certain areas where the baddies are a higher level than you but almost impossible to beat. And this happens a lot. You just need to do as many side missions as you can to level up. Now would be a good time for the PROs.

PROs
As I said do a lot of side quests. Luckily for us the side quests are awesome. Maybe even better than the main quests. 1 early example deals with adultery. before I get into that you are able to read people’s minds if you want to give up some experience points. It is usually a good thing to do. So some chick in a village asks you to give some other dude a letter. After reading her mind you find out she has been diddling this guy on the side. Now if you happen to find her husbands diary you discover she has done this before and he murdered the guy and buried him in his basement, but she doesn’t know. Before you go ahead you can open and read the letter if you want, against her wishes. Then you could deliver it to him OR you can bring it to the husband. I brought it to the husband. He got very angry, but then I told him I read his diary and I know he killed a guy. I threatened to turn him in, he got upset….so….I killed him. Then I delivered the opened letter which the guy was upset that it was opened, but I lied and said it was like that when I got it.

So you can see I could have tackled this small side quest and many different ways. That’s what makes it so fun. And before I finish I will add that the levels are not just horizontal but also very vertical. Which comes in handy as a dragon.

So if you want a hard RPG that plays similar to Baulder’s Gate and you don’t care about graphics, you should pick up this game.