Evil Within 2 --
As a preamble I did not play the first one so that might impact my experience.
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I thought the game was very good. It is basically a story driven horror/shooter/stealth game. I don't want to provide spoilers but I felt the story and presentation were pretty decent and semi-original (in this day and age you can always find older similar works). The maps were ok - not super large but still interesting.
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The balance was decent and the mechanics were pretty good with reasonable upgrades (both the player and the items can be upgraded - character upgrades are chosen from 5 or 6 category and involve buying select upgrades in exchange for 'gel' which you find. You have to pick your upgrade path carefully as you will not be able to buy most upgrades. Likewise for weapons - you can upgrade weapons among a number of paths using 'weapon parts' you find but only a fraction of the upgrades can be picked so pick carefully.
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I found the game rather difficult - playing on a middle difficulty level but a part of the difficulty came from non-responsive controls using kb/m on the pc. No clue if the controller is more responsive. The layout on the kb/m are decent but don't expect twitch response.
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Likewise the save is a pia. You can only save in select locations (safe houses) and at key points there are autosaves (but the key points can be quite distant). While typically a save can be made 30 or 45 minutes either auto or manually there are a few sections where it might be an hour+.
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It isn't a long game - I think i took between 20 and 30 hours and found about 90% of the content - one hint is that if you break these little statues lying everywhere you will get a key for some goodies. Sadly I had no way of knowing such and missed most of the keys (maybe they assumed you played the first game or maybe there was an intro that mentioned it but i don't think so). A few other nit picks around game play and such but overall a very interesting game worth playing.
As a preamble I did not play the first one so that might impact my experience.
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I thought the game was very good. It is basically a story driven horror/shooter/stealth game. I don't want to provide spoilers but I felt the story and presentation were pretty decent and semi-original (in this day and age you can always find older similar works). The maps were ok - not super large but still interesting.
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The balance was decent and the mechanics were pretty good with reasonable upgrades (both the player and the items can be upgraded - character upgrades are chosen from 5 or 6 category and involve buying select upgrades in exchange for 'gel' which you find. You have to pick your upgrade path carefully as you will not be able to buy most upgrades. Likewise for weapons - you can upgrade weapons among a number of paths using 'weapon parts' you find but only a fraction of the upgrades can be picked so pick carefully.
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I found the game rather difficult - playing on a middle difficulty level but a part of the difficulty came from non-responsive controls using kb/m on the pc. No clue if the controller is more responsive. The layout on the kb/m are decent but don't expect twitch response.
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Likewise the save is a pia. You can only save in select locations (safe houses) and at key points there are autosaves (but the key points can be quite distant). While typically a save can be made 30 or 45 minutes either auto or manually there are a few sections where it might be an hour+.
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It isn't a long game - I think i took between 20 and 30 hours and found about 90% of the content - one hint is that if you break these little statues lying everywhere you will get a key for some goodies. Sadly I had no way of knowing such and missed most of the keys (maybe they assumed you played the first game or maybe there was an intro that mentioned it but i don't think so). A few other nit picks around game play and such but overall a very interesting game worth playing.