Just like the first game the story, artwork, characters, and music are all fantastic. Highly reccomended. Significant improvements have been made to the gameplay as well (more character-types, items, etc). On top of continuing the story, I recommend play the original first because it will carry over your progress (characters, levels, items) Only a few problems:

-Very few wars compared to the first game. This makes fighters fairly useless, especially since there is an achievement for getting 300 clansmens to the end of the game. Also clansmen can be used to forage for food so you can save your renown resource for items and leveling

-Barricades. The developers make a big deal about the introduction of barricades in the first fight of the game and then there are only a handful of fights with barricades.

-Some choices from the first game left abandoned (dredge baby just disappears?)

-The ending leaves more questions than answers than a Game of Thrones season finale. Although this could be expected from the 2nd part of a trilogy.

Otherwise this is an amazing game, especially if you like making difficult choices that add to replayability and turnbased combat.

I'll end this review with the tip. Remember the less-than-useful Eirik from the first game? Take him with you when Rook's party pisses off Kragsmen and you can get him a War-Bear than he can summon each battle, 10/10 would maul again.

Just like the first game the story, artwork, characters, and music are all fantastic. Highly reccomended. Significant improvements have been made to the gameplay as well (more character-types, items, etc). On top of continuing the story, I recommend play the original first because it will carry over your progress (characters, levels, items) Only a few problems: -Very few wars compared to the first game. This makes fighters fairly useless, especially since there is an achievement for getting 300 clansmens to the end of the game. Also clansmen can be used to forage for food so you can save your renown resource for items and leveling -Barricades. The developers make a big deal about the introduction of barricades in the first fight of the game and then there are only a handful of fights with barricades. -Some choices from the first game left abandoned (dredge baby just disappears?) -The ending leaves more questions than answers than a Game of Thrones season finale. Although this could be expected from the 2nd part of a trilogy. Otherwise this is an amazing game, especially if you like making difficult choices that add to replayability and turnbased combat. I'll end this review with the tip. Remember the less-than-useful Eirik from the first game? Take him with you when Rook's party pisses off Kragsmen and you can get him a War-Bear than he can summon each battle, 10/10 would maul again.