STRANGERS

To be honest, I'm not exactly sure how to start this review frankly. 'DIVINITY' is a first person surreal 'experience' about a mysterious visitor arriving at a random household of which they start 'infatuating' the members, on the path to help them become divine. Based on the 1958 Italian film[i] 'Theorem' (Teorema)[/i] by director [i]Pier Paolo Pasolini[/i], the game is fairly short, structured around 'infatuating' people while standing close to them and completing brief sequences with the aim to fulfill each family member's 'desires'. I found this game by accident while searching for Divinity II: Original Sin and unsurprisingly, I am not familiar with [i]'Theorem'[/i] at all. There appears to be very little information about both the game and the developer which made me curious as to what this game actually is so I thought i'd give it a try. Since finishing it, I'm still unsure as to what it was about! On a technical level, it's a mess. There are a slew of issues including bugs in and during sequences which can cause hard-locks, saving not working, visual issues such as the indicator of your 'infatuation' being difficult to decipher whether you are actually progressing , the p…

i found the concept very interesting - you are playing as some sort of a supernatural power and your goal is to help each family member to attain divinity! it is so simple and yet bold, so i was on board from the get go. well, the idea was there, the execution was not, let's see what went wrong. - game mechanics are wasting player's time. you need to hold a mouse button pointing at the family member you chose and observe how the process of their attaining divinity is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowly progressing. it takes AGES. the developer was aware about it and introduced another key to hold - that should've make the process go more quickly, but in fact it does almost nothing. so the majority of my time in the game was holding keys and staring on a very slow progress bar. - it's not clear what to do next. after the progress bar was completed, you are suppose to bring your chosen person to the place they have in mind by "following the hand". this mechanic is pure pain. it was more or less clear that the lady from the tutorial wants to go to the roof, but the rest of them and their bloody hands lead me nowhere every time. there is no any indication at the chosen place that …

Worst game I ever played. Atari games were better than this drivel.

I love games that strive for eccentricity. But peculiarity without proper pay-off will be nothing more than a chore. Of course there is also value in this and I might return to this game someday. However, this obsessive nonconformity to gaming standards has me beat at the moment. There might be something here and I failed to discover it for myself. Maybe another day.