上古卷轴 3：晨风 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind p.312

…我最喜欢的 RPG 游戏都具有优秀的角色成长。为了实现这一点，我认为需要具备以下条件——以你喜欢的游戏方式养成角色的自由（自由），将自己投入到该角色中的动机（动机）以及对你的养成方式做出恰当反应的环境（世界/敌人）。

[...] The RPGs I enjoy the most are all about good character development. To achieve that I figured certain things need to be in place – the freedom to develop your character in a way that fits your preferred playing style (Freedom), motivation to invest yourself in that character (Motivation) and an environment that reacts in a fitting way to how you developed your character (Universe/Enemies).

Swen Vincke,
拉瑞安的创始人和 CEO

Swen Vincke,
Larian's founder and CEO

游戏中的文本不仅普遍写得很好，对话还往往能让人会心一笑。除了各种调侃搞笑以外，游戏还常常拿一般的幻想类游戏开玩笑，甚至有时还会自嘲。这点让原本平平无奇的跑腿任务变得更加有趣和好玩，因为你总能期待那些陈旧的套路会一转攻势，出人意料。

遗憾的是，如果不提《神界》最大的缺陷，即游戏的结局，就有失公允了。显然，游戏的规模和野心远远超过了开发商和发行商的承受能力，这导致最后一章变得特别仓促。《神界》大部分独一无二的优良品质在最后一章中都消失了，留给你的只有非常草率、不间断且无脑的战斗，对抗大量既烦人血条又厚的敌人。不过至少你可以选择径直前进，无视所有的敌对力量，一路穿行过去。

Everything is not just generally well-written, but the dialogues are often genuinely funny, employing various tongue-in-cheek methods, poking fun at the fantasy genre in general, and sometimes even going into self-parody. This also makes all the otherwise generic fetch quests much more interesting and fun to do because you can always expect some sort of a little twist to the tired old formula.

Unfortunately, it would simply be unfair to not mention Divine Divinity's biggest flaw, which is the endgame. Apparently, the game was much bigger and more ambitious than the developer and the publisher could chew, which resulted in the final chapter being terribly rushed. Most of the qualities that make Divinity unique simply disappear in the last chapter, leaving you with fully railroaded, non-stop mindless fighting against annoying, health-bloated mobs of enemies. Although at least you can just go ahead and run all the way through, ignoring all opposition completely.

《神界》系列的所有音乐都是由已故俄罗斯音乐家 Kirill Pokrovsky 创作的，他的管弦乐和新时代电子技术的结合使原声带成为了该系列必不可少的一部分。

All the music in the Divinity series was composed by Kirill Pokrovsky, the late Russian musician, whose mix of orchestrations and new age electronics made the soundtracks an intrinsic part of the franchise.

总而言之，如果你真的不喜欢砍砍杀杀的战斗，《神界》可能不会是你的菜。然而，本作时常会变得很有挑战性，游戏系统还为你留下了很多自定义的余地，你能厚着脸皮打破这些规则，让它们为你所用，这一点我确实喜欢。

那么，还有什么可以总结的呢？《神界》就是一款还不赖的好游戏。不是说它完美无缺，但它玩起来却格外引人入胜，足以让你快乐好几个星期。它是那种让你觉得“跑腿任务和普通战斗的组合凭啥让人如此上头”的游戏之一。

这部作品也是整个《神界》系列的开始。《神界：超越无限（Beyond Divinity, 2004）》是一部平庸的续集，但接下来的作品绝对值得深入了解，尤其是《神界 2（Divinity 2）》和《神界：原罪（Divinity: Original Sin）》^[3] 。浅尝辄止是有欺骗性的，会让你认为《神界》是对《暗黑破坏神》的模仿，但它并不是。彻底把这一点记在脑子里吧。

Ultimately, if you really dislike hack-and-slash combat, Divinity might not be up your alley. I did like, however, how it can even get pretty challenging at times, and how the game's systems leave you a lot of room for personal customisation and ways to shamelessly break them to your advantage.

What is left to conclude, then? Divine Divinity is simply a neat game. Not flawless by any means, but ridiculously absorbing and long enough to entertain you for weeks. It's one of those games that make you think – “a combination of fetch quests and generic fighting has no right to be this damn addictive!”.

It's also the start of the whole Divinity series. Beyond Divinity (2004) was a mediocre sequel, but the next titles are definitely worth more than a casual look (especially Divinity 2 and Divinity: Original Sin). Because casual looks are deceiving and make you think Divine Divinity is a Diablo clone. Which it isn't. Get that into your head once and for all.