There is method to this madness, and given how much madness is possible, a whole lot of method is needed to back it up. You can also do those things because they're fun, but even the weirdest possibilities are driven by some rationale. That's why you can talk to ghosts and retrieve memories by eating corpses (and sometimes by eating things that might contain traces of corpses). Every time exploitation or fair use of an in-game skill or ability could lead to new possibilities, rather than building an invisible wall to block off those possibilities, Larian figure out what the ripple effects would be if a player were to cause mischief and mayhem, then expand the framework of the game to deal with the after-effects. In some cases, an item might be hidden somewhere, providing you with the information a character might have told you if you hadn't chopped them to bits, but you could also have a chat with the ghost of the dead character if all else fails. That means there are failsafe options allowing you to complete quests even if you massacre the quest-givers and other important NPCs.
Divinity doesn't deal with decisions as things that happen in discrete moments though, instead it's built on a set of rules and mechanics that assume players might do anything that the ruleset allows. Branching stories and big decision points are a familiar part of games, from Telltale and Life is Strange to dialogue options that drive morality systems in big budget RPGs. But even the complexity of the (optional) multiplayer and combat are surface level the actual machinery driving the game is even more intricate and influences everything from individual questlines to the entire structure of the world.ĭeep down, Original Sin 2 is all about choices and solutions. There's a deep, turn-based combat system, with skill-crafting and elemental cocktails. This is a large, story-driven game in which four people can play together, sometimes cooperating and sometimes working toward contradictory objectives. And behind all the bizarre brutality of the face-ripping, their inclusion in the game as player characters ties into what Original Sin does best: systemic storytelling.Īs far as I'm aware, there's nobody else in the world making RPGs quite like the Original Sin games.
Divinity's Undead have quite a lot in common with Hitman's Agent 47, it turns out, from their love of disguises to their shiny domes. Instead of wearing an actual face you use a magical mask that takes the detached face and allows you to transform into the person you stole it from. Sadly, for the purposes of gruesome comedy, you don't get to hang the actual flesh of your victims from your hairpiece. Undead characters, whether custom created or otherwise, will get hold of the Faceripper device early in the game. He hopes to address this by wearing somebody else's face as a sort of moist balaclava. Ask him why and he tells you that he needs it because people run away when they see his naked skull, When you find the undead Origin character, he's cutting the face off a dead person. The Origin characters have their own backstories that branch off into quests and stories as you play, and they all exist in the world as NPCs that can be recruited or killed. When you create an undead character, as with the other races in the game you can choose to play with a pre-built 'Origin' character or create a custom one of your own. When you're playing a skeleton, it's going to be weirder than ever. I love Divinity but in among all the elves and dwarves, I sometimes forget just how weird it is. Faces were ripped, children were startled, feasting on cadavers quickly became routine. “And now we just use the Face Ripper on this elven corpse so we can polymorph into an elven form and learn more about what happened by eating the limbs we found earlier.”Īt Gamescom, Swen Vincke, CEO of Larian, was showing the playable undead race in Divinity: Original Sin 2 for the first time.
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