‘Living world’ would be going too far, but ‘experimental Lego set with fireballs and thievery’ might not. There’s so much to do, and not just in terms of quests – Original Sin works very hard to get its systems right.Ī town’s citizens go about their own business to some degree, there’s an involved stealth system if you like to play such things as a tea-leaf, and furniture within rooms can be re-arranged to your heart’s content (though not always to the content of the room’s owner – a reputation/annoyance system means you can quickly end up in fights for not respecting others’ property). Granted a decent budget at last, thanks to a big Kickstarter success, they’ve finally been able to go for it. Said creators have seen middling success and acclaim for their long-running Divinity series, which has long boasted best intentions but wobbly execution. It’s giving long-time RPG fans what they want, but it’s doing it because that’s what its creators want too. As trite a phrase as it it might be, it’s almost impossible not to pin the words ‘labour of love’ onto Original Sin. While plot-wise Original Sin involves mostly linear progression, the freedom to muck around (often just for the sake of mucking around) as you travel down that very long straight line is immense and refreshing.
You can steal almost anything that it isn’t bolted down, you can use fire and water spells to create vast infernos or electrifiable ponds, you can create a vast range of experimental cookery, and you can even talk to the animals. A roleplaying game that’s starry-eyed about the classic likes of Ultima and Baldur’s Gate, this sprawling title goes out of its way to be a giant toybox. Proving, as so many other games have lately, that there is a huge appetite out there for games based on genres and values long since abandoned by the mainstream industry, Divinity: Origina Sin has been a runaway success.
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