I was, in truth, hopeful about the game, and even very happy with it once it came out, but ultimately ended up being disappointed and can't bring myself to play it anymore.

There is a number of reasons to that:

• Some weapons are just not fun enough, some are actively tedious, and some just straight up refuse to work;
  
  
• The environments, especially the base, are now very dark and kind of a bummer to look at: lots of dark-green, dark-blue, dark-red and generally muted colors, everything blends together and just sucks ass visually;
  
  
• Enemies are mostly meh in design, matching the environment. However, the mechanics are weirdly punishing, especially in the early-stage levels. The progression through a single run could feel very lopsided at times: huge difficulty spikes early on, getting simpler as you play.

Melinoë is so flippin' serious all the time, so determined in her quest, so lacking any kind of humour that it becomes annoyhing.

This game, above all, makes you realize just how important Zagreus's dry, sarcastic voice acting, with witty lines to match, absolutely MADE the first instalment.

That's not to say that the game lacks positives: the voice acting is all-around very good, the art is great (even though the art direction makes me depressed at times), the music is great, the combat is mostly fun and varied.

[h2]TL;DR: The game is definitely worth the asking price at the moment of writing, but somewhat unpolished, and not as [i]Frikkin Awsum[/i] as the first one.[/h2] I was, in truth, hopeful about the game, and even very happy with it once it came out, but ultimately ended up being disappointed and can't bring myself to play it anymore. There is a number of reasons to that: [list] [*]Some weapons are just not fun enough, some are actively tedious, and some just straight up refuse to work; [*]The environments, especially the base, are now very dark and kind of a bummer to look at: lots of dark-green, dark-blue, dark-red and generally muted colors, everything blends together and just sucks ass visually; [*]Enemies are mostly meh in design, matching the environment. However, the mechanics are weirdly punishing, especially in the early-stage levels. The progression through a single run could feel very lopsided at times: huge difficulty spikes early on, getting simpler as you play. [/list] [h3]But the biggest reason of all seems to be [b]The Protagonist[/b]: she is just so unbelievably [b]boring[/b]. [/h3] Melinoë is so flippin' serious all the time, so determined in her quest, so lacking any kind of humour that it becomes annoyhing. This game, above all, makes you realize just how important Zagreus's dry, sarcastic voice acting, with witty lines to match, absolutely MADE the first instalment. That's not to say that the game lacks positives: the voice acting is all-around very good, the art is great (even though the art direction makes me depressed at times), the music is great, the combat is mostly fun and varied. [h3]It just doesn't have that "I enjoy spending my time with this"-aspect that the first one was all about, and that's a huge crime for a game.[/h3] [h1]Doubt they'll patch that.[/h1]