Volgarr the Viking II

Hard but fair

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It's pretty much the same as the first game. Same hardcore mechanics, same UX/controls problems. Fun, hardcore, but lacks some controls flexibility and quality of life stuff (like controlling the character in the air, throwing the spear when you are close to the wall, saving momentum when running of a cliff without having to roll, ability to restart a second part of the world without having to die manually, etc.).

brutal

[h3]The good[/h3] - More armor and multiple gear pieces don't come off in a single hit - Menu music - More and improved gear - More power-ups - Longer levels [h3]Just awful and strange changes[/h3] - Some stupid oversights to key bindings. Can't bind right click to the spear throw or the map zoom out to the tab key like you could in the first despite still being able to bind left click to swing the sword and right click to several other binds that work. - Changing the distinct red skeleton to a second blue skeleton is strange. Unsure if it has to do with an environmental change or what. - There's way too many checkpoints which also keep all of your equipment. There's an extremely lame strategy where you can just back out and retry at the checkpoint with your equipment if you get hit. I do however like how you can break them for a higher score. - Dying too many times induces undead mode which allows you to choose "easy" and beat the entire game in god mode completely trivializing a lot of achievements. If you choose "standard" on undead mode instead you simply continue with no changes but you get the undead ending which is how undead mode should be all the time because that's basically how the original Volgarr's 1st ending path played out. I don't think adding an outright god mode is how any game should implement their easier mode. - Another problem arises with what should be the Valkyrie path equivalent in the fact that you start with multiple lives and gain them back way too easy. When you do eventually die and have to click continue, it sends you back to the menu and you have to create another save and delete the last one instead of just trying again from the start of the game which feels janky. Lastly, when you do click continue to go to the main menu that original save file still exists and isn't undead like it should now be, it's still human?? What's the point of clicking retry if you can just back out with continue and go back in. [h3]Final thoughts[/h3] I think the game overall is an improvement to the first despite some questionable changes and if they optimize some of it they could easily make a third game that exceeds expectations.

it is still as hard as a northern frozen rock.

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