Lohse entered the battle with about 20 percent HP, hopped up on a strength potion, hasted and clear-minded, spells that gave her more action points and yet more strength. Instead of killing her, we did the next best thing: we beat her up, then buffed the shit out of her. But it was a tough fight, so we wanted Lohse's damage output for the first couple turns. He couldn't target her if she wasn't in battle. The key to saving Lohse from Adramahlikh's possession was to make sure she was dead already. But to me, the beauty of Divinity is in how it lets you manipulate its systems to achieve a new outcome. You could argue the moment would've had a heavier emotional impact if we were playing on Honor difficulty, which is harder and only gives you a single save, autosaves after death, and erases itself if your whole party dies.

We reloaded the save, of course, but that didn't lessen the impression that moment left on me-the power of an RPG teaching you the rules of its world, only to upend them at the 100 hour mark. My Lohse gets ready to deliver a stone cold ass beating with her hammer. If you haven't finished Divinity: Original Sin 2 and intend to, you've been warned! Spoiler warning: Full-on spoilers from this point forward. But I wasn't ready for what would happen when we finally faced down my demon. I'd been stacking constitution until I was built like a brick wall, and could crit for almost 3,000 damage with a two-handed hammer. At this point, it was pretty rare for me to die in battle. And I was Lohse, the traveling minstrel who just happened to be possessed by an incredibly powerful demon. There was Beast, the dwarven pirate who maxed out persuasion to sweet talk our party through sticky situations. He got us in a lot of fights by pickpocketing people who didn't like getting their shit stolen. There was Fane, the undead wizard and thief. We each controlled a character, selected from Original Sin 2's presets. Almost four months later, with nearly 100 hours of game time behind me, my co-op buddies and I had nearly finished this insanely long, ambitious RPG.

Divinity 2 getting your own back