Recent reviews by Mitch Dux

Good port of a ps3 title. Mechanics have aged somewhat but still fun. Story has good highs and middling lows, overall good.

Some good ones and some stinkers. Still a fun 7 hours.

Despite performance issues, DD2 is an incredible action RPG. Great fights, very different vocations and playstyles, great story (with some weird bumps), great music. Definetly a great successor to the original game.

On campaign, meh integration with the main story. Balance gets thrown off the ship since you get exp and gold. Fine once but twice it's a slog.

As standalone, terrible. Decent party/build tester. Super inflated play time since after every boss you have to remake your party from the ground up + run across all the islands/journeys + the 3 bosses you've already defeated. So its a slog x4. I haven't seen anywhere mention this. By the time youre fighting fun/big groups of enemies youre sick of the mode. Then a cutscene kills all your characters and the game tells you to make new guys. Then youre off to kill tiny kobolds for the next 2 hours again. You will end up muting the ost and the mercenary voices.

If I had a consistant party from start to final boss, with resets only on wipe, then maybe I could stomach the DLC. As it stands it is a slow, boring kill-a-thon.

In the generic fantasy land of Vertiel, 8 necromancers with lame names have been waging war on the world for a couple years. You play as John Vulcan, generic human fighter that gets a demon stuck inside of them and gains a new voice inside of their head cause of it. Alongside a cast of forgetteable and cliche sidecharacters, like good girl mage, rude elf and sassy skeleton, you travel through a temple, a swamp, some icy wastes and an icy temple to defeat 1 (one) of the necromancers and win the war (or destroy the world).

Combat is insteresting at the start but never evolves, you will be light attacking and parrying from start to finish. Playing on hard was a test of my patience, combat is usually against 3-4 enemies and every group has an archer. For the sake of your sanity please kill the archer first ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they got machine guns for arms.

Companions are characters you've seen in other, similarly boring games. Good girl mage, bad girl mage, a tall dwarf fighter, elf archer and sassy skeleton. They barely have an arc, chemistry or personality. You can drag one of them around and they will mostly facetank 1 of the 4 enemies wailing on you for a couple seconds.

The story and the world is interestingly frustating. The necromancers have been on the war path for years, the humans have been losing all battles, the elves are just joining the fight because I dont remember. But theres no maps, no mentions of other kingdoms or armies or anything. Its surface level of the worst kind. Barely any vistas make the entire thing forgettable. The biggest, best elven city in the world is 3 streets made from red brick. You dont get to see it from afar, unlike the Frozen Eleum Loyce. Spiders was a small studio back then, but even a concept art in a cutscene would be enough. Magic is not explored on any level (except joke dialogue) and so is any other concept that you might have a question about.

Dialogue is terrible. Uninspired, full of lame jokes and references and the voice acting varies between characters but its overall poor. Play male Vulcan because he's voiced by Robin Atkin Downes. If you imagine youre playing as Travis Touchdown the whole thing becomes... bah its still terrible. Do not go demon because Vulcan gets a voice filter.

The game ends in a strange, unintuitive boss fight with two choices at the end. Pick your flavour between water or ice because theres no post ending. No ending cards, no voiceover, no companions comment on your choice. Straight to credits.

So why a positive recommendation? Because it is good jank. Combat works and it has a story despite how bad it is. It's no hidden gem and no bottom barrel. It just is. It caught my eye, I put 10 hours into it, I walked away towards my next game.

Interesting premise but Spiders always bites more than they can chew.

Abandoned by Valve. Play Overwatch 2 instead.