Completed Darksiders 2
I give the game an award for the plot and ending. I haven't seen such a leak for a long time... This is a stupidly nonsensical excursion through brief lore theses, which ends... And to hell, this is not even a spoiler! An almost instantaneous, fleeting happy ending, where everything around which there was intrigue, which is crossed out with dry facts in one sentence in the video, without giving any artistic disclosure and visualization! “Fast, choppy and pointless” is how I can describe the whole story. Apparently, the lore is not bad, they even thought it through, they’re even happy with it, but it’s as if the screenwriter picked his nose, wiped the result of this action on a pre-prepared collection of lore and decided to give a tour. THIS IS SO BAD WITH THE PLOT!
But at the same time, the game turned out to be pretty good. The combat system is simple, but not primitive and relies on good slashers. The riddles are also simple, but not primitive and are well connected to the character’s abilities. The bosses are varied and interesting. The design of a number of locations is very sad. The mobs are also quite good. Which is nice, without the freezing “guy with a shield” or “guy who can only be hit with fast/heavy weapons”, and the favorite “guy who needs the ability to remove the shield/protection”.
Surprisingly, I even liked the costume design. Fortunately, clothes change quite infrequently and you can go through level 2 without really changing anything, so when you come across something really good, you just nod and bet. At the end of the game I even caught myself thinking that I wouldn’t be lazy to sweat a little to get to the nearest chest, maybe there would be something useful. It’s true, I thought the idea was crappy, but in reality it turned out to be well implemented.
But the length is unrealistically rubbish. Most of the time we help with all sorts of nonsense, finding 3 “somethings” to open 3 doors, to do somersaults and wag our tails 3 times, to be called a good boy 3 times. If it weren’t for good fights and quite relaxed farming, I would have given up. Although I’ll make a remorse and say that the game has 2 of the most annoying moments. At the beginning, helping the pot-bellied people, and in the middle where they ask to look for generals. Two moments where any self-respecting person will think “why am I doing this..”.
3 out of 5
This is a project of people who adore their art director and with fire in their eyes fantasize about how these charmers from the art fight and climb, inventing their own rich story for each face in the picture remembering the stories they were told in church on Sundays. These employees, as well as those responsible for the riddles, are good guys. But the one who is responsible for the plot content and narration is an amateur or an abnormal person, living in the 90s at heart. Am I happy with the game? Well, if it weren’t for the ending that left the taste of urine on the tongue, then yes. Would I play knowing such a disaster with the plot? Well, free games with PS+ won’t work on their own, but God forbid you give money for it. Although I could have taken it for 100 re. Not yours, of course.