Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition really loses nothing coming over to console. It’s up to the player on how they want to play, and having player choice is never a bad thing. If you want to simply enjoy the story and make the combat less demanding, Pillars also supports that, however.
Decide you just want to rush headlong into battle and forgo this step? You’re going to lose then – and easily even on the middling difficulties. It really does force the player to pause combat and think about each action, giving you some of the most satisfying combat experiences any RPG can offer on the platform.
Pillars of Eternity is also still the same punishingly difficult game as it was on PC, which is great to see. Thankfully, it doesn’t happen every time, and it does seem to alleviated some, but it’s worth noting. Console loading times were already longer than my PC version (thanks in-part to my hybrid-HDD/SSD drive on my PC), but waiting full minutes to load the PS4 version sometimes is absurd. As I progressed through the game, though, loading times increased the farther along I got. Early on I encountered crashes while loading some of the earlier areas such as Gilded Vale or Caed Nua. While playing, there haven’t been too many issues to report other than the loading times. Check out our original review and expansion review to see what we thought of them on PC. The story for Pillars of Eternity and its exapansion, which are part of the Complete Edition on console, haven’t changed and really hold up well. Some of the more important parts are also beautifully voice-acted, but if you’re sitting a normal distance from your TV the text-conversations don’t detract from the experience. The hand-drawn art style pops on the big screen, really, and while the game is still mostly text-based, we don’t have any Witcher 3-esque text issues with Pillars of Eternity. Along the way you’ll meet up with characters such as the Elf Wizard Aloth, or the incredibly strange priest by the name of Durance. The story follows the player, known as The Watcher, who we learn can see the past lives of the denizens of the world around you. It’s elegant, and once you get the hang of the system it makes lounging back on your couch and enjoying the fabulous tale Obsidian have weaved a joy. You still need to work through layers of menus to pull up a dizzying array of skills in some instances, but a simple press of square or X lets you pause combat or attack a target.
The L1 and R1 bumpers lets you easily swap between characters and combat, which is the most complex in terms of controls in games like this, is actually very easy to control. Pull the R2 to bring up combat specific skills for your selected character, L2 pulls up quest log, inventory, leveling menus and more. Once you get used to the controls they really do feel second nature. Paradox Arctic, the studio who handled the console port, have done an amazing job making the complexities of Pillars feel comfortable on the gamepad. The biggest question stemmed from how well the interface and controls would translate to a gamepad and television screen. The isometric RPG made by Obsidian Entertainment (of the original Fallout fame) and published by Paradox Interactive, the biggest question going into the game was not whether or not it would be a great game – critics and fans alike have agreed that Pillars of Eternity was already stellar on PC. Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition launched on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One earlier this month to great fanfare. Boy am I glad to be completely and utterly wrong.
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