Original Sin is very much its own RPG too, familiar and fresh in the way of a modern successor rather than a mere tribute act. (Though as when running Ultima in the Exult engine, there's no way to do it with a bucket of a dead man's blood and then feed the result to his newly orphaned son. Add water to flour, put the dough in the oven, wait, and presto, one yummy roll. Even in alpha, this is an RPG that both harnesses the studio's love of quirky ideas and channels the Ultima spirit to the point that it's a wonder chats don't open with a cheery "Name?" "Job?" or "Bye!" Certainly, making the first quest a cult-related murder investigation gives the opening town a distinct Trinsician quality - and yes, you can indeed bake bread. While a much more traditional game than developer Larian's last few outings, it's far from simple. Several of the enemies are really goofy, especially the bombers and this skull-decorated robot not actually built by the Undead.
I am digging it hard enough to strike oil. It's just never happened, usually due to two factors: the more mundane RPG foundations struggling to live up to the big ideas, and the design needing an editor armed with a chainsaw-machete.īut I'm really digging Original Sin. This has always been a series that I've wanted to love, both for taking inspiration from one of the best RPGs ever and for inventing an awesome new concept for each game. Unfortunately, to my sadness, mine wasn't one of those hearts, and the sequels fared little better on my PC. This is something it shares with the original Divine Divinity, which won many hearts in 2002, even with its awful name. It doesn't play like it, it doesn't particularly look like it, but it has at least a piece of that game's soul embedded at its core, throbbing with a pleasing hum.
Divinity: Original Sin reminds me a lot of Ultima 7, and that's a Good Thing.
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