The Devs Should Be Embarrassed

[Corvid]

I'm genuinely impressed by just how terrible they managed to make this sequel. Not only is it somehow worse mechanically, but they've regressed to the level of a middle schooler's first puzzle game. Whoever decided to make this more of a "Puzzle" game should be genuinely, sincerely, truly embarrassed. I adored the first game for being as fast paced as it was challenging. When things finally clicked, every level felt amazing...except the cybervoid levels. You know, the things that literally thousands of people kept begging for the option to skip? And now, not only have they more than just doubled down on the cybervoids, but they've decided to make normal combat levels into "Puzzle" centric cesspits.

Timed platforms are near literally the very lowest form of puzzle mechanics. The absolute bottom of the pit for tools when making a "challenging" puzzle. You have taken what was one of the fastest first person games and made it into a mediocre, annoying, and aggravatingly slow pile of dross. Leave the timed platforms to p l a t f o r m i n g sections. Things that are, arguably, very out of place when they're more frequent than combat sections. But do not make every single combat level require you to sit there and wait for platforms to open up. That is so mindbogglingly obtuse that I would readily accept it if someone told me the devs sold the IP to someone else. How do you go from the speed of Ghostrunner 1 to the snail's pacing of...this. Whatever this tripe garbage is. This is not worth 40 dollars. It's not even worth 20. This feels like 10$ DLC made for a quick buck. The devs couldn't even be bothered to make a few extra animations for the taunts. I take it back, this doesn't feel like DLC. It feels like a compilation of puzzle themed custom maps made by an aspiring kid with promise in the community. Not. Devs. Charging. Money.

What an utter embarrassment.

[Mad Cat Lad]

- Cybervoid now allows all movement mechanics, unlike the walk-only atrocity in GR1
- Cybervoid has actual enemies and parkour instead of button clicking puzzle snoozefest
- Cybervoid is aesthetic af
- GR1 was full of plates on rails that required timed jumps
- Player speed and movement options are all the same, plus new ones like Tempest jump
- Jesse what the hell are you talking about

[Corvid]

Originally posted by Mad Cat Lad:

- Cybervoid now allows all movement mechanics, unlike the walk-only atrocity in GR1
- Cybervoid has actual enemies and parkour instead of button clicking puzzle snoozefest
- Cybervoid is aesthetic af
- GR1 was full of plates on rails that required timed jumps
- Player speed and movement options are all the same, plus new ones like Tempest jump
- Jesse what the hell are you talking about

Fantastic ability to be selective. Great work. You are such an ideal customer.

[batghost2k]

GR1 was a good game, this GR2 look like good too for me, they make effort, but i agree, game need serious fixing, probably realease to early. He deserve more test for sure. I trust in 505 to make the necessary work done in the next day. There is no reson.

[Mad Cat Lad]

Originally posted by 【=◈︿◈=】:

Fantastic ability to be selective. Great work. You are such an ideal customer.

Fantastic ability to reply with non-reply.
I "selected" your specific complaints and left out the gravy of emotions, which make up the most of your rant.

[Desculpa31]

Originally posted by 【=◈︿◈=】:

Originally posted by Mad Cat Lad:

- Cybervoid now allows all movement mechanics, unlike the walk-only atrocity in GR1
- Cybervoid has actual enemies and parkour instead of button clicking puzzle snoozefest
- Cybervoid is aesthetic af
- GR1 was full of plates on rails that required timed jumps
- Player speed and movement options are all the same, plus new ones like Tempest jump
- Jesse what the hell are you talking about

Fantastic ability to be selective. Great work. You are such an ideal customer.

heres an option refund the game, unless you played more than 2h then... welp play something else and forget about this one...
they are most likely working to patch the bugs and problems in the game... after its fixed you can play it again and then you can come back and delete this post

[Underdrill]

This is such a baffling take that I don't even know where to begin.

- The cybervoid sections in GR1 got really annoying on repeat playthroughs, which they aren't likely to be here as you're no longer walking slowly through them.
- There's much more variety in the mechanics of these levels, far more than there was in the entirely of the first game, and I haven't even reached the motorcycle bits yet.
- Ghostrunner 1's levels mostly blended together for me, while I distinctly remember each of the small set of levels I've played so far.

Almost every issue I had with the first game has been fixed in this sequel. It feels like what Doom Eternal was to Doom 2016; a much more interesting and refined gameplay experience that makes changes so substantial that it completely overshadows that original entry.

[D6]

Thanks, man. Saved me wasting my time and money. The unskippable sections where the action grinds to a halt of the first game ruined it for me, and it looks like they added even more. No thanks.

[azewy]

nah, i loved the cybervoid sections in ghostrunner 1 and i still do in ghostrunner 2, they are a nice change of pace

[Swampbunches]

This game is cool. I like everything about it that you don't like. I guess you can go back and play the first one!

[Jack Demon]

I wanted to like Ghostrunner 2 but I have to agree. It's much weaker compared to Ghostrunner 1. The bosses were awful and the boss fight was repetitive and anticlimatic.

[VouZ_nel]

I've played only the first few levels, but so far it's basically the same game with a few new gimmicks, don't really understand this post.

[Underdrill]

Originally posted by D6:

Thanks, man. Saved me wasting my time and money. The unskippable sections where the action grinds to a halt of the first game ruined it for me, and it looks like they added even more. No thanks.

But they didn't add more of what you don't like. The sections that grinded to a halt in the first game simply aren't a part of the sequel. You can skip the dialogue between levels if you want, but you can't skip the cybervoid levels in the first game.

[Jack Demon]

Originally posted by 【=◈︿◈=】:

IWhatever this tripe garbage is. This is not worth 40 dollars. It's not even worth 20. This feels like 10$ DLC made for a quick buck. The devs couldn't even be bothered to make a few extra animations for the taunts. I take it back, this doesn't feel like DLC. It feels like a compilation of puzzle themed custom maps made by an aspiring kid with promise in the community. Not. Devs. Charging. Money.

What an utter embarrassment.

After replaying the game again, I have to agree that if feels like a custom map made by the community. The bike was the only unique thing about GR2.

It's hard for me to recommend it to anyone even if it's 10$ because it's mediocre.
Most of the positive review are just jokes and don't mention why GR2 is supposedly better.

[Corvid]

Originally posted by Jack Demon:

Originally posted by 【=◈︿◈=】:

IWhatever this tripe garbage is. This is not worth 40 dollars. It's not even worth 20. This feels like 10$ DLC made for a quick buck. The devs couldn't even be bothered to make a few extra animations for the taunts. I take it back, this doesn't feel like DLC. It feels like a compilation of puzzle themed custom maps made by an aspiring kid with promise in the community. Not. Devs. Charging. Money.

What an utter embarrassment.

After replaying the game again, I have to agree that if feels like a custom map made by the community. The bike was the only unique thing about GR2.

It's hard for me to recommend it to anyone even if it's 10$ because it's mediocre.
Most of the positive review are just jokes and don't mention why GR2 is supposedly better.

Replaying the first one immediately solidified my belief. The people saying that the level design of 2 was the same as 1 are just out of their minds. It's not nearly as laughably mediocre. The parrying also works far better in 1. The first boss of 2 immediately shows just how horrible parrying is now, because even successful parries against the boss could still kill you. Most of my deaths against him were from successful parries that still resulted in me dying. Kinda defeats the point. That lack of proper design is indicative of the entire game, with geometry being more janky and things just outright not working frequently.

The motorcycle was fun enough, but with how many steps back they took to put it in, there's no real reason to spend money on this thing.

[Sokurah]

I just beat the second "boss" and i need to agree so far.

First of all only 40 % made it this far. I know the game is new but considering mostly fans of this niche game will pick this up, and it's very early in the game, that seems really low.

The combat rooms feel sluggish and not as well designed as the first one. And there are too many boring traversal sections so far. It just feels as things would not connect that good as in the first game.

The void section where you float around was just terrible.

In this second boss fight i could not see where to go half the time, because of the weird lightning effects.

Also i cant remember the frist game having such a stupid boss as the frist one. He just teleports anywhere in the room which is also really weird. The game is about reacting fast from spot to spot but those need to be well connected and visible. A teleporting boss feels off.

I need to admit i'm not very good at the game tho. But i finished the frist one. Maybe i will finish this one too, but so far i'm not sure. It does not feel as good as the first one so far.