THE ISOMETRIC RPG has been a mainstay of PC gaming since the ’90s, and feels most at home here, thanks to the highres screens and mouse input that, until recently, consoles couldn’t match.
Original Sin 2 is a sequel to the prequel to the Divine Divinity series, thus tracing its lineage back to 2002 and some awful cover art. Today, thanks to Kickstarter’s largesse, we have a huge game, oozing the kind of polish we could only imagine in the early ’00s, yet some things feel very familiar.
Take the immediate beginning. You wake up on a table, and a huge bell marked “Planescape: Torment” begins to ring. As it turns out, you’re not immortal, merely quite easily resurrected, but the rest is up to you. Or not, as Larian…