The more I think about Everhood 2, the more I respect it. Everhood was a fantastic little game, and the story of the follow up doesn't come close to capturing that magic. Combat has been expanded on and the music is overall better in the sequel, but the writing falls flat.

But Everhood is not a game you just continue. Anything other than this would have been a spit in the face to the original game. Chris and Jordi knew exactly what they had to do here, and followed through knowing that 'unsatisfying' as a goal post would leave people, well, unsatisfied. Is this the perfect game? No. Is it the perfect sequel? Yes.

I have never been more disappointed in a game in my life, I enjoyed the first game very much so. And still find it enjoyable to try to go back and no hit songs on occasion. This game is just a mess.

The music and gameplay isn't bad, but the songs feel less dynamic due to always needing to loop, and the RPG aspect of the gameplay feels like it has no purpose at all, considering enemies scale somewhat to your level, making me wonder why it even exists in the first place. And it's not that hard to 1-hit most enemies anyways regardless of that.

This would probably be worth a mixed review for me alone but the story and ending especially is literally the worst ending I've seen in my life. I don't know how at the end of your first game you can ask people to message you what you liked about it and how it made you feel and make a second game with the assumption it was only the funny visuals and talking to mushrooms, something this game seems to try to make me waste my time doing constantly.

The biggest cope for the ending of this game is basically "Well, it's supposed to be bad!"
Well, I guess my review will be bad then. Just because you can make a "self-aware" ending, or whatever, doesn't mean it's actually good. Feels like the devs didn't have any idea for an actual ending and did whatever the hell this was instead.

Went into this game wanting to do everything by the time I finished it, can't be even bothered to do that anymore, just play the first game, it's better as a full package, which this game might have surpassed it if they put any effort into the writing or at least gave it an ending that wasn't complete ass.

If I finished the game, like, yesterday, I would've gave it a solid 7/10. Literally everything has improved with this game, pixel art, music, effects, it was all a joy to experience and go through.

However, the story is basically a skeleton, all major moments but no meat and because of that story and some other decisions mainly making the player replay the entire game with little to no changes (aka me) just makes me hate it, especially when the first game was a solid experience from start to finish and how I was enjoying my time with this one, but everything besides that drags it down. This game doesn't value my time, so I'm not going to value its.