Hello! Welcome back to a new regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few weeks. This time: Sin, bird-spotting and traffic jams. We are a “broad church”.
I love returning to games a few years after they come out. I’ve bought a whole new PC in the time since Divinity: Original Sin 2 came out. And whereas Baldur’s Gate 3 runs a bit funny on it, DOS2 runs gorgeously. And it gorgeous – I wasn’t expecting that. The intricate environments, the grooves in my rather charming dwarf’s face. . I can’t stop looking at it, and it’s a good thing too, given how often I see it!
But what really strikes me is the game’s charisma. I expected it to feel a bit known, a bit less interesting, because it’s been and gone now, a hasbeen. But it doesn’t. From the off, this game is dense with detail and humour and life, and interactions I actually stick about to listen to.
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Oh and there’s a cavalier squirrel riding a skeletal cat, now, for some reason. Because that’s another thing: Larian has added all this extra stuff since I last played, all these ways you can bend the rules to make it more fun. So somehow, it all feels fresh. And I’m falling in love all over again.
I neglect the games I have on my phone, for some reason – maybe because I’m not going anywhere and so have run up against a shortage of in between-time, the time before and after things, events, actually happen. Or maybe because it’s in between-time now and so I want to fill that big gap with an actual thing, an actual, sit-down event, less I feel the treasured gap’s been wasted.