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a pretty solid game all around, gameplay is a bit more streamlined making it closer to a true metroidvania, as oppposed to the first game which was closer to a 2d dark souls game.

weapon play is pretty sick, movement is slick, boss design is a bit more interesting, the soundtrack is top notch, and the iconography is still as undecipherable as ever. good game, u should play it

I am a Lords of Shadow 1 hater. It's a game, better than some, but damn is it tedious. On the other hand, 2 is actually somewhat fun to play. I don't hold any strong opinion on the actual story, but playing through the game is, to my greatest shock, actually fun. I don't think this game deserves any accolades, but it visibly shows how MercurySteam grew and continues to grow as a company, because they just made Lords of Shadow 2 an actual game.

Any sort of review I have about this game is kind of meta because I came in expecting a terrible mess of a game - the game did bomb critically and commercially, and a lot of the criticism was about the setting and the story but ultimately those are... fine? Yeah it's not exactly "Castlevania" but at least the game managed to retain my attention. Which is infinitely more than I can say about the first entry. In all honesty it drives me insane how much people glaze the first game, especially in story, because it's a NOTHING game. You get barely anything, you get a 25 minute cutscene before the final boss, and then credits roll.

Even one of the game's "worst" parts - stealth segments - aren't even that bad. They don't even last long enough to be called stealth in the first place, if you ask me!!!

I personally think the best part is the variety of panoramas the game offers this time around - Lords 1 is very, terribly, insanely bland. I could not remember segments of most levels. 2 however does vary it up, and despite people screaming about how it's not very "Castlevania", by the time this game released we did have entries with guns and hell even part of a modern village with cars. So like, I dunno, the ambiance more than makes up for any criticism I would personally have in terms of visual offerings for the levels. Same for the bosses - they were terribly dull in 1, a lot of them being non-interactive for large chunks of time. And even the worst offenders in this game are heads and shoulders above that game's mediocre offerings.

For actual criticism, even with a SSD, load times are kind of long (and are very present with decontamination chambers, elevators, etc), and the combat is still not exactly award-winning, but at least I found myself using more than just basic air and ground attacks. For character-focused action games, I don't think this should be your first go-to game ever but as a curiosity, sure why not give it a spin.

Overall this is like the most okay game you can possibly play. Definitely emblematic of the end of that generation of consoles and the beginning of the new one, but at least it's a video game that didn't make me angry at it out of sheer tediousness. I would rather replay this game 4 times than ever touch Lords of Shadow 1 ever again.

Purely for single player, leaving a negative review to protest because this clearly should've been Chronicles. You can click the tab in the campaign menu and it takes you to a... Chronicles-like menu to browse the 3 new campaigns.

I have no opinion on the balance and 3K being ranked civs, but just from a single-player point of view, I do not understand the push to make this seem like it's part of the "main" game. Simply adding a tab would alleviate the biggest gripe I have with the presentation.

Other than that, it's a DLC with 5 civs and 3 campaigns. Decent in terms of content, definitely tainted by the poorer presentation. Someone somewhere made a weird push to not make this Chronicles that I do not understand.

cocomelon for roguelike players

pretty good game, nowhere near as hard as people paint it out to be. i do have some annoyances like some attacks being finicky to pull off and some annoyances with the level design (bottomless pits straight out the door in some rooms...) but nothing that makes me want to slam the game down

also i am not spanish so any and all iconography went over my head

I am a Lords of Shadow 1 hater. Mirror of Fate is a better, more fun game, partly because it condenses ideas they tried in Lords 1 with tighter combat, an actual story, and less padding.

This still isn't going to win any awards for storytelling or level design (I think most of the castle is forgettable, which I do not think is good) but at least monsters do not take 2 minutes to kill a piece, and the Uncharted-type padding is drastically toned down.

There are still a ton of things that annoy me in terms of combat or level design, but it's nothing that makes me want to tear the game apart, and none of it feels as tedious as playing 1 was.

Honestly, you could play this as a standalone and ignore the prequel and sequels even exist. It's fine, the most "fine" game I can think of, but it didn't bore me to death nor upset me so it's already an upgrade on both games that surround it in this trilogy. I did feel like I was playing a video game, so that's gotta say something right?

This game opens with a clip of Hillary Clinton and a Two Steps From Hell song.

Also it's not a very good game. And incredibly violent.

much needed addition to the game, respecing and essence add some much needed tools to make the game a bit less bland. very huge fan of the ultimate ability especially the huge AoE damage one. if you get dungeon siege 3 you might as well get this DLC tbh

finally picked up this game 14 years (lmao) after buying it and overall i would say it isn't a terrible time. being completely ignorant of the series, i went and looked at gameplay of the previous entries to see why this game was more divisive and it's very easy to see why : this is a finely sanded down version of the previous entries, that is more interested in telling a story than providing more classical ARPG gameplay and loot.

is it bad? i don't think so. the game has its merits (full voice acting amongst other things) and i think it relatively holds up well, but most people would be bored if they wanted to play this looking for a more core ARPG experience. not very hard to understand why as of writing this it's sitting at mixed on Steam in terms of reviews.

still leaving it as a positive recommendations, but i do not think 15 years later it will rock anyone's socks off

in a bid to finally play games i purchased, i finally picked up this game over a decade after i bought the THQ bundle it was included in. i did not expect to have this much fun with it - physics are really fun to master and it adds a real flow to the game. i had no expectations and had a ton of fun, and i'm usually not a racing game fan. i would crash out irl every time the AI would land on my head and cause me to wipe out. i recommend.