PlayStation says that I’ve played Divinity Original Sin 2 for 148 hours. That’s a lot! And enough for now, because I’ve just finished the game. Almost half an hour of those 148 were spend watching the ending and the epilogue. All major and some minor characters get a mention and also the major regions of the game. I choose a path that I was content with. So I had my peace with the ending, unlike a lot of people.

I took a few breaks of a couple weeks in between those 148 hours. I also started over once or twice. And I also skipped over quite a few quests along the way. A game this long cannot hold my attention for the whole time that is needed to play through the game. But that’s okay. The game is broken up into different chapters, so you can easily take a break between those. It’s not like Skyrim, where you put yourself into a characters boots and you don’t remember the backstory you told yourself after you come back to that character after a couple of weeks.

I liked the game very much. I understand that the Enhanced Edition offers quite a different experience from the original version when it was released. I didn’t have any issues with it from a technical standpoint. I loved the combat and the characters, and the story was also okay.

The only negative thing I have to say about the game is inherent to the subgenre, namely the fixed camera perspective that doesn’t allow me to look around and see the sky or tall buildings or statues that now are too hard to see. Another gripe I have is that you cannot zoom in and out during conversations. The characters are too small. It would be more immersive for me if I could see them better.

Maybe in another ten years I would like to replay the game with different characters. I choose a typical party with a fighter (The Red Prince), a mage (Fane), a healer/summoner (Lohse) and me as an archer (Ifan). I never play as a rogue and also don’t do a lot with bombs, and I would like to try that out sometime. But there are a lot of other games in this genre that I haven’t played yet to try that out with. Although that probably will take a while, because I now want to move on to finishing God of War Ragnarok, but not before I play Lord Winklebottom first. And some retro games in between.