An awesome death, but an epic fail
posted by pingNpong (MESA, AZ) Dec 2, 2012
Member since Nov 2012
It sucks that 80% of this game felt filler. The first couple hours your running pointless side missions; fortunately some of these side missions help you along your journey. Usually I am able to connect with a story within the first hour of playing. Still, even with a few hours invested, I cared nothing about what was happening. As the hours passed the game became a "I have to beat this now because i've come this far" kind of game.
DS2 went wrong, for me, in many ways. The new looting system was pointless. I didn't need the excess weaponary seeing as how I was fine switching between two weapons (but thats just me). You're continuously entering areas filled of unnecessarily tedious puzzles that you spend more time trying to figure out then fighting anything. I did, however, enjoy the upgrading system and being able to feed weapons to other weapons. Although I felt all weapons should have been able to have the same upgrade (but thats just me). The controls of the game were a bit tricky when fighting multiple enemies, what with holding the LB+ another button while trying not to get hit, while fighting, while moving the camera as well as trying to dodge; craziness. One redemption I will give this game is the infinite amount of combos I could trigger. I definitely enjoyed opening up a box of smackdown. lol
I didn't feel like there was much of any story going on besides running around finding out about these diiferent lands dragged under by "Corruption". From my understanding the events of this game take place during the events of the first, but I felt like this game had nothing to do with what was going on. This game was so far all over the place it definitely fell short of becoming the killer sequel it had the potential to be. If they would have spent more time on developing a better overlapping story and less time on extra unnecessary elements of an RPG I might have enjoyed this game more, but again that's just me.
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