Mas Allá de la Divinidad
Well, I think I'm ready to review Beyond Divinity.
Okay, here's what ya got: A really, REALLY good story with some nice game mechanics and good character development wrapped up in only a decent presentation. Oh, the graphics are great, I love them, but... The voice acting. After three and a half acts, my ears are ready to bleed. The voice acting is just... SO BAD! Divine Divinity;s voice acting wasn't stellar, but it wasn't BAD. With the exception of the Dark Knight character, every single voice in the game is just excrement. I'm really sorry, but they must have run out of money when it came down to voicing the characters, because that's what it seems like.
Then, there are the battlefields. A good idea. A laudable idea, even. But what's good on paper isn't always good in practice. The BF's are just too repetitive and flat. Maybe if they were more than just the same 5 merchants giving useless quests, I wouldn't mind. But they have no life. One of the cool parts about the rest of the game is that it does seem alive. There are neutral creatures and the monsters are appropriate for the area that they're in. But in the BFs, you just show up and have to kill a bunch of random monsters. woop-de-doo.
Okay. Now that I've got that out of my system, I need to be a bit more diplomatic. (Why is it that the negatives are always stressed the loudest?) Anyway. Aside from the Battlefields and the voice acting, I rather like Beyond Divinity. It's long, so you don't have to worry about spending your money's worth, it's got a great story to it, and the skill system is so unique and flexible, I'm sure that it's got a lot of replayability. All-in-all, I do enjoy this game.
If you can find this game for $20 or less, I would defiantly suggest getting it. If it's more than that, I would say, consider it, but unless you really need something to play, and there's nothing better out there, then you should probably wait a bit.
Okay, here's what ya got: A really, REALLY good story with some nice game mechanics and good character development wrapped up in only a decent presentation. Oh, the graphics are great, I love them, but... The voice acting. After three and a half acts, my ears are ready to bleed. The voice acting is just... SO BAD! Divine Divinity;s voice acting wasn't stellar, but it wasn't BAD. With the exception of the Dark Knight character, every single voice in the game is just excrement. I'm really sorry, but they must have run out of money when it came down to voicing the characters, because that's what it seems like.
Then, there are the battlefields. A good idea. A laudable idea, even. But what's good on paper isn't always good in practice. The BF's are just too repetitive and flat. Maybe if they were more than just the same 5 merchants giving useless quests, I wouldn't mind. But they have no life. One of the cool parts about the rest of the game is that it does seem alive. There are neutral creatures and the monsters are appropriate for the area that they're in. But in the BFs, you just show up and have to kill a bunch of random monsters. woop-de-doo.
Okay. Now that I've got that out of my system, I need to be a bit more diplomatic. (Why is it that the negatives are always stressed the loudest?) Anyway. Aside from the Battlefields and the voice acting, I rather like Beyond Divinity. It's long, so you don't have to worry about spending your money's worth, it's got a great story to it, and the skill system is so unique and flexible, I'm sure that it's got a lot of replayability. All-in-all, I do enjoy this game.
If you can find this game for $20 or less, I would defiantly suggest getting it. If it's more than that, I would say, consider it, but unless you really need something to play, and there's nothing better out there, then you should probably wait a bit.
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