After struggling to finish Divinity: Original Sin 2 the first time, I've fallen in love with Larian's previous hit RPG⁠—and it isn't just the Baldur's Gate 3 afterglow

fter my Baldur's Gate 3 bonanza in August and September, I was Baldur's Gate 3 hungover, and needed the videogame equivalent of a Full English Breakfast to fill the Baldur's Gate 3-shaped hole in my being. I turned to Larian's previous RPG hit, Divinity: Original Sin 2.



I'd known I had to give our 2017 game of the year another playthrough even before falling in love with everyone's 2023 GOTY-apparent because the weird thing was, I left my first playthrough of D:OS2 kind of sour on the whole thing.



I was definitely along the ride for most of the way, but the final act seriously pissed in my soup, both mechanically and story-wise. With Baldur's Gate 3 an easy all-timer for me and D:OS2 100% my kind of game, I figured this was at least partially a me problem and not just a Divinity: Original Sin 2 problem. It deserved the old college try...
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