It's a game in which you can kill people and might find it useful to do so from time to time, and therefore it's a game in which you can kill all of the people because having some be invincible would be inconsistent. Instead, Divinity has a very clear set of rules and boundaries, and it allows you to explore every possibility within those boundaries. You can't seamlessly travel from the planet's sufrace to an orbital space station and then pilot a fighter into a black hole, or chop down every tree in the world in order to gather enough wood to build a bridge to the moon. It's a game that allows you to do anything, though not in the way that a massive open world life-sim might promise. The philosophy driving the original Original Sin was based around player freedom. At the foundations, there's a more interesting world, with a stronger set of characters, but there are also improvements to combat, and the smartest twist on cooperative multiplayer that I've seen since Dark Souls. I spent an evening playing the sequel a couple of weeks ago and it improves almost every area.

It's a systemic toybox with the skin of a fantasy RPG.

Divinity: Original Sin is one of my favourite games of recent years.

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