Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire review — When in doubt, mock the almighty

When the gods are looking down upon you, the Watcher of Caed Nua, arguing about the fate of the world and themselves, you feel Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire’s weight. Your actions and decisions are all that’s keeping an arisen deity from destroying Eora’s soul cycle of birth-death-rebirth. Your next choice may decide if thousands die … or millions perish.

Then you realize you must plunder a tomb to open up a quest line to the endgame because another of your decisions alienated an arrogant queen’s faction, slamming the door shut on the path you had chosen. You denied her a chance to beat her political enemies, and she refuses to help you save the world. So then I turn to … bloodthirsty pirates settling old scores to determine Eora’s fate.