To be honest I can't convince myself that it's any good, and if I hadn't stupidly written in the manual information that *should* have been included(such as what charms do) I'd have returned it by now. I would suggest you buy it from a shop that allow a 7-16 days return policy and keep it in good condition until then, make up your mind and go from there.
And as for those who haven't played the game...Stop telling everyone how good it is, you will only make yourself look foolish when you realise it's nothing like Divine Divinity. Act 1 is very typical of the rest of the game, new voices or not. BD is horribly linear, and with a lack of good NPC interaction I'd hardly rate it as a genuine RPG. It's Diablo 2 with out the style and I don't think I was even getting the full game music until the most recent patch. Maybe with a decent bugfree game I'd give it 6/10 but so far it's not getting that.
Finally I think it was a bit underhand to link it so with DD. Okay that was probally not Larians fault since they were going to call it Riftrunner. But when I saw it's title of Beyond Divinity I naturally thought it was a semi-sequel, in the same way Baldurs Gate had BG2 or Fallout had Fallout2....you expect a new improved version of the earlier game but still much the same. BD only shares the isometric view and simple clickfest combat, everything else is radically different. I tell you what, when the real DD2 comes out I'll take a long hard look first at the MBs to decide before buying it.
