Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault

I was so excited to hear they were making a second moonlighter. I loved the first one so so much! 20 ish hours on pc and over 200 hours on switch. I've been waiting for moonlighter 2 to come out of early access for over a year now and finally got to play it. I've beaten the 3rd world and don't really feel like there's a reason to play anymore. I will still complete the game to see what's at the end out of principle, but here's my thoughts thus far. [b] TLDR - The game has lost what made the original so good. Too many yoinked things from hades. Moonlighter 1 had so much original sauce to it which just isn't here. [/b] [b] THE GOOD [/b] - The backpack eject is a great mechanic where you can smash melee enemies off the screen which feels satisfying. - I like that the secondary currency for upgrades no longer takes up backpack space. - The coloured item rarity system is a welcome edition - The anti greed shop pricing to let you know if the price you list is just too high which is much better than the first game. [b] THE BAD [/b] - Too many yoinked things from Hades and the boss fights feel so empty and forced. - Why are blueprints locked behind runs instead of natural game progression? - Why did you get rid of the dungeon format? - The gameplay loop gets old and each run doesn't feel worth your time. - Upgrades feel so lackluster/ meaningless once you get to a certain point. - The bosses in moonlighter 1 were so memorable and satisfying. Moonlighter 2 the bosses don't really feel the same. - The weapons feel dull to use/ you don't really get to experiment as much as you'd like to due to being locked behind blueprints/ why invest resources if they feel crap. - Why is everything in the main hub spread so far out where the first game the town felt cohesive. - Cosmetic dlc day 1 of out of early access was a slap in the face. - You can have a great run and get combo'd so fast and have to tele out early on. - I had 2 major bugs happen during the Aeolia world where my character was suck in place and had to teleport out and the other my caracter was just floating and unstuck myself through trial and error. [b] RECOMMENDATION TO THE DEVS [/b] If I could recommend anything to the devs it would be this. - Get rid of blueprints alltogether and just have players unlock everything if they have the coin and secondary currency needed. - Scrap the shielded phases from bosses as it doesn't add anything. If you ever do an expansion please make it like moonlighter 1 dungeons

To many people say this game has nothing in common with the 1st one and they are just wrong. Most people that are saying that they just want moonlighter 1 again so just go play that. I for one like how they did the dungeons in Moonlighter 2 over the 1st one and i know this is something a lot of people talk about and they think the moonlighter 1 dungeons are better not sure why moonlighter 1 dungeons are nothing new to gaming they are from back in the day Zelda on the NES. Just because you could go back to a room you have been to before people think that is better in Moonlighter 1 once you cleared a room there is no reason to go back unless you took a wrong turn to get to the end it was pointless and a waste of time. I saw someone leave a bad review of this saying the game has nothing in common with the 1st Moonlighter as well. 1. Same character 2. You run a shop 3. you go into a dungeon to get items to sell. 4. you have weapons/armor ( now on this point i do think armor was done better in the 1st game ) 5. You upgrade the town 6. you upgrade the store 7. you upgrade your backpack 8. you fight monsters 9. you have boss fights 10. the music So umm help me out guys it has nothing in common with Moonlighter even the name is different because its Moonlighter 2 that 2 makes it a different name lol. So yeah did they change some things yes are they bad changes no are they good changes no they are just changes I honestly think some are good some are bad each person is going to have their own opinion of the changes. Honestly have not played it enough to have a 100% opinion on it but what i have played so far I do like everyone saying its a 20 hours game yeah I am sure it is if you don't read everything when playing the game and just rush the game. When people say how long the game takes I honestly think they skip a ton of stuff or are looking stuff up online. But over all I like it. Only thing I found i don't like well 2 things is the armor in this one the 1st one you could make a helmet and chest piece and legs if i remember right but in this one its just 1 piece and that to me is a stupid change. Also the boss fights the bosses going immune and just having to wait is just padding I don't like that and never have honestly its ok if one boss has that as its gimmick but all of them kind makes them all feel a but of the same even thought they are different and have different attacks. It was like someone who worked on the game was like i have a great idea we have to use it on all the boss fights. And yes I allow comments on my reviews people who don't I don't even read their review if they are not willing to let people add to the review or even ask the review a question or maybe point out something they missed then to me I don't care what that person thinks. If you read my review thank you and if it helped you let me know.

1.0 release of the game, infinite loading after tutorial into crash just to send me back to replay the tutorial, then i got stucked into the terrain and i could not roll out of it just so my character to die I don't understand why would you release the game in this state and call it 1.0 But you know guys, at least we have the cosmetic dlc that you can buy now

Combat is visually messy. Every enemy is glowing red from a bunch of debuffs and particle effects make it hard to see what attack they are preparing.

- Mettez une poignée d’un rogue-like / hack and slash. - Ajoutez une pincée de gestion de magasin / négoce avec la vente des trésors que vous avez obtenus en donjon. -Rajoutez un zeste de RPG (pour son côté compétences et améliorations avec les deniers durement gagnés avec la vente de vos items). - Marmitonnez le tout et vous voici avec Moonlighter 2 : une recette addictive qui marche bien, qui, entre deux grosses productions apporte une brise d’air frais.

This review literally hurts me so much to give because I ADORED Moonlighter, but the second game feels like a step away from what the first one was in a way I'm not really a fan of. The original game the dungeon crawler aspect felt almost like a fun mixture of classic Zelda with roguelike elements. While the shopkeeping element is much improved in this newer one, the dungeon crawling has turned almost entirely into a clone of Hades. I love Hades, but if I wanted to play Hades I would.

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