Demon Hunter 2: New Chapter

A far better experience than the first game, but still with its foibles and Brave Giant-brand annoyances. Morphing objects make their return and insist on being present (at least less-so this time out), but gone are the timed one-chance achievement challenges (there are still some that are dependent on timing, but not locked to a specific puzzle so you'll have multiple chances to get them). The characters are weirdly manipulated from photos of real people instead of creepy drawings... take that as you will, and there is so. Much. Backtracking. If you're playing on expert mode, it means you won't have an indication that a HOG site is active again so you'll have to keep going back to check as each of them are repeated at least once. That said, no achievements are tied to difficulty so if you're just looking to speedrun, bring it on down and let the sparkles fly. As for the game itself, it is pretty standard fare. The story is as ridiculous as expected and there's no reason for the world to be in the state that it's in other than that this is, indeed, a game and is meant to have puzzles. And there are many - both HOG scenes and normal puzzles - so adventure fans should be pleased. This time around you can grab everything in one go so you don't have to suffer through repeated playthroughs. There's nothing too challenging here. Nitpicks remain the same as always - I hate the morphing objects (there's no rhyme or reason to them existing) and clues sometimes have multiple objects that could apply so if you're going for your 3-in-a-row perfect-click achievement, that may mess you up. It also seems like they hadn't yet figured out how to make sound consistent so expect really soft lows and loud highs that fluctuate for no reason. As I said, I had a much better time with this one than its predecessor so if you're curious, start here. There's little continuity between the games and whatever exists is negligible, at best. While these games [i]could[/i] present interesting ideas for exploring narrative and lore, they never really quite take advantage of it, prefering to pop these out in quick succession... which makes me wonder where they've all gone in the 2020s. I guess they moved to mobile and I'm not big into that, so options are limited and this isn't the worst one you could go with.