
You will embark yourself on a quest to stop him and prevent the world from being consumed by the Void. But there are dark secrets in the Order, and while you escape from your confinement you discover that Bishop Alexandar has ulterior motives to declare Sourcerers as criminals. Blaming your kind for the death of the Divine, you are bound in chains and in wait for them to “cure” you of your powers. The Magisters of the Divine Order have captured you and you are taken to Fort Joy. Your ability to summon monstrous creatures from the encroaching Void makes you a threat to the rest of the people.

This time, the tides have turned and you are one of the Sourcerers.

Given that the entire game can take over 100 hours to finish, it’ll be quite some time before I’m able to fully test every portion, but what I have played is encouraging.The sequel to Divinity: Original Sin takes place one thousand years before the events of its award-winning predecessor. Load times are incredibly speedy and, several hours in, I haven’t run into any crashing issues. The game runs at a steady framerate, with only occasional hitches during auto-saving. The payoff to the drop in resolution comes with the game’s surprisingly smooth performance on Switch. Again, it’s all at a lower resolution than the original versions, but the static nature of the environments means that the muddiness of the character models experience is less noticeable. And the environments actually make it through pretty unscathed, with tons of detail in the various dungeons and shops you’ll be exploring. Characters are muddier and less detailed than they are on higher-powered machines and aren’t likely to win any beauty contests in general.ĭespite this, characters are still readily identifiable, even in handheld mode, which makes picking them out amidst combat quite easy. The drop in visual quality, especially if you’ve seen the original version, is noticeable right from the character select screen. The Switch port of Divinity : Original Sin 2 doesn’t work miracles. So how does it all hold up on Switch? Larian Studios But it was also praised a gorgeous game with fully 3D environments and a detailed physics engine.

Originally released in 2017, it’s acclaimed as one of the best western-style RPGs ever made, with its stellar writing, voice acting, and tactical combat. The latest challenger to the Switch’s hardware specs is Divinity: Original Sin 2. Ark: Survival Evolved and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night both took noticeable dives in playability in the transition. But not all of these modern Switch ports have been as smooth. Large-scale 3D games, like Skyrim and Doom, have found a welcome home. That hasn’t stopped a number of developers from bringing ambitious titles to Nintendo’s platform. There’s no question that the Switch is a relatively underpowered console, especially when compared with the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and modern PCs.
