Pillars of Eternity is not an adventure you can just pick up and play, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. With a tremendously dark, deep narrative and terrifically in-depth, challenging gameplay in front of my very eyes, Pillars of Eternity’s critical acclaim certainly seems justified, but is it really as good as they say? This adventure isn’t for the faint-hearted … or the weak-minded. Combat in Dyrwood must be handled in the most strategic way possible, and the game allows you to do this by pausing the game each time you wish to change tactic. Blimey! The character creation menu features an extensive range of classes, races and beliefs in order to create the ultimate hero and leader of a band of tough renegade acquaintances, scattered throughout the cursed land. Naturally being unable to sleep through the never-ending visions and nightmares, you set out to seek the cult leader and have the curse removed before you go insane. Due to being in the vicinity, you become engulfed in the surrounding magic, turning you into a Watcher, a powerful being with the ability to see spirits and past memories. The adventure follows you, a foreigner in the land of Dyrwood who, after escaping a savage storm, witnesses a cult ritual, a ritual at that that strips bodies of their souls that leave Dyrwood to suffer from the Hollowborn Plague, a curse that causes children to be born without souls. Releasing now on the Nintendo Switch, with previous launches for Xbox One and PS4, this latest and “Complete Edition” features the captivating main game, as well as both parts of ‘The White March’ expansion pack, bringing with it new companions, abilities and a new ravaged land to conquer. Pillars of Eternity is a multi-award winning Real-Time RPG adventure, originally released on PC back in March 2015 by Obsidian Entertainment, the minds behind Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth. Friends and colleagues of mine simply cannot stop gushing about this adventure, with some calling it one of the finest RPGs ever created, so how will it fare when I compare it to what I believe to be one of the finest RPGs ever created? Polish those swords and get those reading glasses on, it’s time to save humanity! Now not being a member of the fabled “PC Master Race”, I wasn’t familiar with this game until it arrived on the PS4 and Xbox One, now in 2019 the fabled game has arrived on the Nintendo Switch. Of course, I’m being melodramatic, but it’s to get the notion across that since that day I have compared every RPG I play to Divinity Original Sin, however, unbeknownst to me, another equally as critically acclaimed RPG had been released not long before, an RPG that a lot of other video game journalists compare their new releases too, Pillars of Eternity. As awesome as my wife is, she just hasn’t touched me, moved me, excited me as much as I felt whilst playing Divinity, a game I regard as one of my all-time favourites. It has been a long time coming but we have finally got Pillars of Eternity on the Nintendo Switch not only that, I may have finally landed my dream job and married my soulmate.
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