Back in August last year I started with Pillars of Eternity. I enjoyed it for a couple of weeks, but never finished it because I started with Mario Odyssey and played Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom after that. Then I played Foolish Mortals and after that Oblivion Remastered. Somewhere in between I got my hands on the collector’s edition of Pillars of Eternity and that was staring at me for months now. So, now it’s finally time to get back into it.

It was quite easy to pick the game up again. The journal is excellent and I still remember a lot of things about the beginning of the game. The fights become more interesting now with all the new skills and spells becoming available. I find the difficulty very uneven, but there’s plenty to do, so when I die, I just try another quest.

I’ve had a couple of fights now that I barely scraped through, sometimes with just one party member left standing. Those are intens and fun. Although I still find the combat mechanics very complicated. But I also haven’t put in the time and energy to try to understand it. Right now I’m exploring level three of my castle and confusing the trolls is very entertaining!