by OL » Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:27 am
I started it when it came out. The first "world" so to speak was incredibly boring, I thought. I was presented with a bunch of side-quests, but felt no urge to do them because the world was so "seen it before". Did a couple, but didn't get much out of them.
Ironically, while I defended the first game when some people said it looked too much like World of Warcraft, that was actually the thought I had going into this one. The Forge and its surrounding areas all reminded me of a cliche-fantasy WoW-style setting. I was almost turned off enough to stop playing for a while, but I kept on, knowing that there were at least a few more (hopefully) more interesting worlds to see after this.
Only in the land of the dead areas now. I'm at the arena, where I was supposed to fight the "champion". But as soon as I get there, I'm informed that "Sure, you may fight our champion... but first you have to go through yet another dungeon to turn him back on again".
I facepalmed a bit at that. Seriously, they couldn't have side-stepped the Zelda inspiration at least enough to keep me from getting bored with it?
Haven't played anymore since then, but I have to say that I'm at least a teensy bit disappointed with the game. While the first game had me experiencing the end of the world, slashing apart angels, and riding a motherfucking griffon all in the first few hours of play, this one is moving along at a slug's pace, doing the same things over and over again, in what have thus far been extremely uninteresting locales (seriously, the land of the dead is all brown and gray so far... not really inspiring me to explore as much as the devs probably want me to).
The Shadow of the Colossus-like fight was cool, but up to this point, that's really just about the only true highlight of the game. And Death is a great protagonist, but it feels like he's being wasted on these situations and environments.
I may just not be in the proper mood for playing it at the moment, so I think I'm setting it down for now. Maybe if I wait for the right inspiration to hit me, I'll have more fun with it.