What could have been your typical, high-stakes fantasy quest is elevated by strong writing and voice acting that effortlessly jumps between whimsical and brutally grim. What starts off as mission to escape prison spirals into an quest involving gods competing for survival and an evil poised to swallow up the world. So of course you’ve been hauled off to jail by the corrupt Magisters-the game’s fanatical villains-ostensibly to stop you from ruining the world. And you just so happen you be a sourcerer with a divine calling, born with the ability to wield this powerful magic, talk to the dead and feast on souls. The world’s a mess, you see, with monstrous beasties rampaging wherever there’s source magic.

Original Sin 2’s main quest calls to mind Baldur’s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, both being races to godhood. And there are more of these moments than I could reasonably count.Ĭompanions not only assist you while undertaking their own personal quests, they are ultimately your competition. I never told her, though I could have, and nothing came of the conversation, but it did matter, making the fight retroactively more memorable. And there was his mother, boasting about how good he is, how clever he is, and how much she loves him. He was a monster of a man I’d met hours ago. As she gushed about her son, it dawned on me, I knew this guy. Its owner was an affable, chatty woman and proud mother. One of the first places I hit up in any new RPG village is the local watering hole, so when I arrived in Driftwood during the game’s third chapter, I immediately headed to the Black Bull.

It’s daunting, but it’s also a fair price to pay for the weight it gives to decisions. These ripples of consequence result in a world that feels alive, and even give NPCs agency, but they also inspire hesitation when decisiveness is required out of the fear that one or more of these choices will kill another quest. Many of the NPCs you’ll meet have relationships and allegiances that affect more than one quest, and seemingly unrelated events can collide, cutting adventures short. The journal quickly becomes impossible to parse, and directions from NPCs can be vague, but it’s another otherwise welcome feature that really complicates things: the connected nature of the world. They’re great, fat with unexpected turns and rewarding character moments, but keeping track of them is hard work. Larian loves its headscratchers, populating Rivellon with riddles, moral conundrums and ancient mysteries.

These neat tricks don’t mean the quests are simple.

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