Rianto Game Review: Divinity - Original Sin II #34

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Hello Steemian !! Good evening Steemian wherever you are Happy Activities Steemian for you who are being. May we all always be healthy and always in the unity of God Almighty. Rejoining @teguhrianto, in this case I am again going to share a beautiful game that makes the world seem impressed while playing. Have you listened to my post reviews in previous posts? Interesting right? I will give you the best review and good and unique information for my steemian friends, hopefully I can give you a little information about this game for all my friends, the game that I will give is Divinity - Original Sin II. Want to know what is interesting about this game let's see what is this game and what experience is given?

 RPG is indeed a broad genre. The core "role-playing" that should define this genre is indeed translated into various variants. Some focus on the narrative side, which contains a major story theme that requires you to act as a pre-determined main character. Bandage it with epic story and solid gameplay mechanics, then you find a quality like The Witcher 3 if executed optimally, or hundreds of Japanese RPG game titles across generations over the years.But not a few are also trying to answer the challenge of this role play in the optimal capacity, which allows you "mix" your own adventures. This is what Larian Studios is trying to offer with Divinity: Original Sin II.

First impression

You who had followed the football we certainly know, that this RPG game as always to our hearts. Falling in the first series and similar games like Pillars of Eternity, Divinity series: Original Sin II is an RPG approach to the real "role playing" aspect. That instead of getting stuck in just one story, one solution, or one problem, you'll be faced with so many alternate story paths you can take, complete, or ignore. We are talking about an RPG game that allows you to smash doors or crates if you do not find the appropriate key to exploit magic like Teleport to solve the puzzle though. The strong attraction as a role-playing game is what makes you fall in love with Divinity: Original Sin II.

Coming with the corresponding isometric and visual camera approaches in the "right-tailed" configuration, this is not the type of game that will always lead you where you need to go and complete every mission. Although linked to a common thread of the same story line, you are still given the flexibility to "mix" your own story. You can even play as Lone Wolf - go on a solo adventure, or just along with other characters, form a party. With so many side missions that can also be taken and resolved, Divinity: Original Sin II also injects a combat system that is ready to frustrate you if you are in an unprepared state. This is a game that needs planning.

While waiting for more time for review, especially considering we've spent about 40 hours for him and "new" exploring the second island, then let us throw a load of fresh screenshots from this oven to help you get a picture of what Divinity: Original Sin II is. Calling it the strongest candidate of the best PC exclusive games for the year 2017 is indeed not excessive. Why? Because of our 40-hour experience, we've even seen it as the strongest competitor of Persona 5 to compete for the best RPG title of the year, at least from JagatPlay goggles.

Intro

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a CRPG (Computer Role Playing Games) game that contains some classic elements of old-fashioned RPG PC games. You will not find an action-combat or open world world like today's RPG games, instead you'll find the modern feel of classic PC RPGs like the first Neverwinter series or Baldur's Gate ever popular in its day. You do not need to play the first series to play this game, considering the second series of this game set several centuries after the first series of stories ended. Surely this will cause you to lose some lore from the game, but not completely. The story of this game can still be followed even though you only play both series only. Unfortunately, I myself did not get to play the first series, so this review will be based on my opinion about the series both of them.

You are a Sourcerer with Unique Strength

You will act as a Sourcerer (the name for a group of people who can use Source magic) captured by the so-called Magister and will be taken to a prison on an island called Fort Joy. In the middle of a sudden journey the ship that took you and other prisoners attacked by Kraken to make you stranded on the island of Fort Joy. Arriving at Fort Joy, you discover that Bishop Alexandar turns out to be the brain behind your arrest and the other Sourcerers. You and some other Sourcerers have finally decided to take a trip to defeat Bishop Alexandar and find out the reasons behind your arrest and other Sourcerers.

Many Options You Can Choose

Different from most RPG games, like the classic Divinity PC RPG game: Original Sin 2 offers a lot of freedom. All your actions will affect the main storyline until the ending. You can create your own character or play a character that already exists in the game with various options that are very influential in the course of the game. For example, feature tags ranging from Soldier to Scholar that you can choose in character creation will increase your options in interacting with the NPC. Make you have other options to negotiate with them. You can solve the problem peacefully or violently.

If other RPGs generally have attributes like Strength, Agility, to Luck that can sometimes be upgraded (or set up in such a way depending on the title of the game), Divinity: Original Sin 2 does not just dwell on it. This game has several options that you can upgrade each of your characters to level up, ranging from Attributes (strength, finesse, etc.), Combat Abilities (dual wielding, geomancer, etc.), Talents like Pet Pal that allows you to talk to animals, to Civil Abilities which will help you in exploring the world, such as the ability Telekinesis and others. You can also learn skill from skill book or skill that has one package with equipment you get. This skill is limited by the slots you can expand by adding the slot skill points in your Ability options. Each skill book has its own requirements, such as a fire ball book skill that requires the ability of Pyromancer level 3 and the other. This allows you to change the class you want according to your own style of play, for example you start your character with the ShadowBlade class and then replace it to Enchanter in the middle of the game by learning the skill book and increasing your Enchanter's ability to the next level. Combat its turn based tactical X-COM series. All the current combat environments you can use to set your strategy to win the battle. For example, you can use fire magic to land full of puddles of oil, blow up explosive drums, and others. Every action you take will take Action Point or AP, so you can do some action until your AP runs out when your character turns. The same can be done by your enemy. In addition, you can also combine your magic to add damage to your enemy or simply eliminate the magic that has been used by your enemy. For example, using poison magic to heal your undead one party or combine poison and fireball magic to do more damage. All decisions in his combat depend on your style of play. Unfortunately, this combat game is probably not suitable for you who just play strategy game, because it is quite difficult and unpredictable. The beautiful graphics and music will make you feel at home for a long time exploring the Divinity world: Original Sin 2 full of mystery. You will be greeted with amazingly beautiful music when you first play the game.

Free games

The main story is full of conspiracies and twist plots, but you can choose which path you will go through in the main story according to your own will. As I said at the beginning of the article, you will be given a lot of freedom in this game. Exploration and talks with the NPC become one of the keys of this game.

You can continue the game story in a different way, either peacefully through persuasive conversation, stealing the stuff you need, or killing all the existing NPCs. Your choice in ending this game will also give you different endings according to your choice. Unfortunately, the innate nature of the story can cause confusion when you suddenly find the last clue of the story but passes through a few middle clues that you find later towards the end of each quest.

Unlike other RPGs with marked quests in the map, you will not find them in Divinity: Original Sin 2. You are given the freedom to look for side quests to the main story in the game by talking to almost every NPC in each area . Sometimes you also will not get quests or information that the NPC has because you either missed the NPC question or angered them. All your actions and decisions will be very influential in the game, even you will lose your party members if you misstep when choosing an answer.

The absence of clues and only clue in each quest will arouse your curiosity to explore and think logically how you can complete each quest. Not infrequently the quest that can make you frustrated because it did not find a way out the problem. Herein lies the excitement of this game, inevitably you have to explore or collect information from the existing NPC. The addition of a puzzle is quite complicated to solve, giving your own satisfaction when you do not think will be able to solve it with clue that you already know or take along the story. Another unique thing in this game is voice acting. All NPCs even NPCs that have only one sentence and are non-essential NPCs even have their own voice actor. All voice acting in this game is done very well. This element becomes a small addition that may be trivial, but can add a separate atmosphere when you play it.

So Developer in Game Master Mode

Not only can you enjoy the game, you can also create new scenarios in the game through Game Master mode. Larian Studios provide Game Master mode so you can design your own game like the original developer. There are various options you can do, from changing the folder, putting the NPC inside the provided 3D map template, to providing a narrative scenario in each session or folder. Simply put, you can create your own story through Game Master mode.

Scenarios and stories you have created can be enjoyed by other players either online via internet connection, or LAN (Local Access Network). You as a Game Master will be able to set the course of other player games or your friends who go into your scenario by adding powerful monsters, rare items, and NPCs that can be invited to make transactions. Unfortunately, for now this mode does not allow you to create your own 3D map with tools like map editor. You are only allowed to create scenarios according to the 3D map template that Larian Studios has provided. You also can not select a preset voice actor or create your own cinematic scene in this mode.

In addition to extending the life of this game after you complete the main story, the Game Master mode can also hone your skills to become a good game designer. Especially for those of you who have passion in the field of game development, aspire to be a video game developer, or find it easy to do video game development. If the RPG game is always synonymous with its singleplayer, Divinity: Original Sin 2 has a co-op multiplayer mode that is quite exciting. In this mode you can play with other players or your friends in singleplayer campaign. Uniquely, unlike the party with the NPC who always obeys you, your friends one partymu can interfere or make their own confusion as they please in the game. They could kill your character while talking to the NPC or finish off all the NPCs in the game. While his PvP mode focus on tactical combat in single playernya, where each player can set two person characters. This mode does not seem as desirable as this article was written.

Conclusion

Larian Studios is really working on Divinity: Original Sin 2 very well. All aspects of the game are very neat and beautiful. Despite the puzzle, storytelling, and difficult and somewhat messy quests when you're "misstep" because of their free features, they make you feel the perfect role-play experience. You are no longer restrained with fixed objectives that exist like today's RPG games, and are free to do anything as if you were the main character of this game. Making tens to hundreds of hours of your game will not be in vain. This game is not for all circles like RPG games made by other famous developers, but if you really like this type of RPG video game we are sure you will not want to miss it.

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 Information Game  Divinity - Original Sin II

• Developer :                     Larian Studios
• Publisher :                      Larian Studios
• Director :                         Swen Vincke
• Producer :                       Octaaf Fieremans
• Programmer :                Bert Van Semmertier
• Artist :                               Joachim Vleminckx
• Writer :                            • Jan Van Dosselaer
                                                • Sarah Baylus
                                                • Julien Brun
• Composer :                      Borislav Slavov
• Platform :                         Microsoft Windows
• Release :                            September 14, 2017
• Genre :                               Role-playing 
• Mode :                                Single-player, multiplayer

  Source Reference 1, 2, and 3   

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