Darksiders 2 Is a fantastic game, a excellent sequel to the first game that improves in some areas while having some step backs depending on who you are. The Voice acting is good especially Death's, Music is superb done by Jesper Kyd that adds to each area imo that fit the local aesthetic.

Combat has more variety and options compared to the first with a variety of combos and slight variations to spice up combat, the game play felt generally fair with enemies not being too overbearing or intense with their move sets. I played on both the easiest and the hardest difficulty, and imo you don't need crazy reflexes if you want to play this game however way you want. Enemy types don't really vary that much with generally three archetypes per area, small-medium-big and some mini boss esq enemies sprinkled in.

The Open world looks nice visually with beautiful environments well as nice as can be based on the setting but is vastly bare bones and not much to do or explore rather just a means to go from point A to point B, a few enemies here and there with a occasional collectible. It's not as linear as the first game with more side areas kinda and side dungeons.

Puzzles can range from simple to annoying but simple once you learn the gimmick, you'll end up doing most dungeon exploration when playing the main story normally most likely, but there's not real incentive to return or explore more besides seeing one area that needs upgrades or powers you get later in the game that makes you return which is optional most of the time as it's only bonus loot, enemies won't respawn either in dungeons once cleared.

If going for collectibles, the game doesn't tell you if you got all in a area or not so if you lose track of where you've been, it's going to be alot of backtracking. You can go to New Game + after beating the game but it only works once per save, as any attempt to go beyond by killing the final boss simply tosses you out right before the final boss so New Game + is the cap per save.

Last thing I can think of atm is bugs, without V-Sync on my game would freeze everytime I went into my inventory and tried to exit it, another one is a certain quest will crash the game if you would get enough XP upon completing it to level up, and a entire dungeon/level had sound issues the whole way through on every run I had, so as for music or enemy sounds and etc I have no idea what anything sounds like there, the voice lines work fine though.

The game may also crash randomly rarely or upon alt tabbing so do at your own peril. Another bug is Death might be unable to climb up, continually trying only to drop down, I found for me personally that letting go and trying it over and over it eventually got it to work again. Quick note as to parkour, you may want to wait a moment for Death to orient himself with the camera or else he goes rogue disobeying your inputs and you to die.

Overall I enjoyed my time playing this game, if you liked Darksiders or like action RPGS I would recommend picking it up on sale, However once more I must state that for the most part once you go through an area that it's basically finished, there's not much left to do or explore except if you want bonus loot or collectibles now that you have the proper tools, I'd say this game is a 7/10 a good game that shines in some areas but is marred by bugs and slow downtime.

tengo un bug que cuando me meto en el inventario, se crashea, no lo compres o devuélvelo y si lo quieres si o si, pilla una key y no les des dinero solo por esta vergüenza

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i went into this right after beating the first game and all i can say is don't buy this unless your willing to put up with some problems. first is that climbing straight up doesn't work if v-sync is disabled, which it is on first start up, but to turn it on you have to go to options and tick it which if you did so as soon as you encountered the first climbing spot the the game will freeze exiting the options menu. second in the gilded arena no matter how long you wait after moving the statue and changing the beam it won't open, it will happily close the other gate but just won't open any gates after, and the only way i could fix this was by saving, quiting, then pressing continue and since this is a common puzzle i got tired of it and decided that this game wasn't worth doing that every single time and threw in the towel and i don't think the original game had any of these problems, though it's been so long since i last beat this game. the shadow hand had a common issue during wall running sections where after grabbing it death would decide to climb it and not continue wall running. now for personal problems i had with this game, i'm going to start with saying i hate looter games, it makes any weapon feel disposable and gimmick weapons suck compared to raw damage or defense increases, unless it's vampiric weapons, and another problem is that since there is a leveling system attached to the weapons a level 2 rare will always be weaker than a level 3 common and this system, to me at least, absolutely sucks and instead it should have continued off of what darksiders 1 did and have permanent weapons and instead they take cash to upgrade and all abilities take points you obtain through leveling, or the other way around, in turn doing this route avoids the problem of darksiders 1 where the scythe and gauntlets fall off due to needing to really grind them up to match the blade and instead you pay to keep weapons viable. vulgrim really didn't need to be in this game all he is is a loot box shop and if the idiotic rarity/weapon level was removed he'd have no use, or at least combine all the shops into one as running to all the shops takes too long as the map is too big. speaking of too big get used to using the fast travel system cause even the horse is too slow, made worse when you enter a long area and death denies you from using it. the areas do have stuff around but i stopped roaming them eventually as all the chest just give money and sometimes a new item or equipment that was often worse than what i had anyway, a thing that enemies also occasionally do and i often got enough from the chests and enemies in the dungeons. i don't like how many dungeons are optional as the dungeons made it feel closer to darksiders 1 but on the other hand due to how i was feeling with the game by the second main dungeon i started wanting to rush through the game and not bother with the side content. the gaurdian's first phase of the fight sucked as it's hammer attack always hits you if you're going to it's left and half the time will hit you anyway if you're going to it's right even if you time the charge right.

I like this game. It is way more addicting than i gave it credit for. I can get lost for hours at a time. It is not the most deep game mechanically but it satisfies the casual chill out itch with a flavor of story and an interesting protagonist.

Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition is my introduction to the Darksiders franchise all thanks to free key I won from giveaway. The main story is a bit linear however side quests, collectibles and hidden chests are scattered throughout the open world. Overall Darksiders 2 is an action-adventure game that's thrilling and enjoyable and well worth your time.

The setting felt much more enjoyable than the previous game, but I still found the combat not very satisfying. The story is alright. Don't really like character design and graphics. It's playable, but not very interesting. 6/10

greatest hack and slash

The Earth part of the story is kind of -> WTF O.o how did this get in here XD
Other than that the game is pretty enjoyable

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