After greatly enjoying the first game, I had high expectations for this sequel. Unfortunately, as elegant as the environment this second gameAfter greatly enjoying the first game, I had high expectations for this sequel. Unfortunately, as elegant as the environment this second game was, I had to knock its score down by a bit for balancing issues and for not having a particularly meaningful story.
In the main story, the maps are easy to traverse, and if you upgrade the Wizard's Box Conjuring ability to even the first or second level, you're pretty much set for most of the game since it's possible to reach difficult parts of the map with ease. The skills really only start to matter near the end of the main story, which is really poor planning on the dev's part. The puzzles aren't hard at all and the monsters aren't that strong. The checkpoints are overly generous and you're never punished for dying.
As for the epilogue story that comes after the main game, the devs realized that they had made the main story too easy, so they decided to make the epilogue hard instead. Not hard in the sense that the puzzles require some thinking, but hard in the sense that they are frustrating to deal with because they require guesswork, timing, and reflexes, and it's really easy to die if you don't get it perfect. I can't imagine being able to play through the epilogue on a controller.
The extra map after the Goblin Menace called the Dwarven Caverns was a nice experience as well, although the game didn't give any indication regarding how to unlock it, and I had no choice but to look it up. To save you some time, you need to find the two chests in each Goblin Menace map to unlock it. Otherwise, you'll need to play the map over again just to do so.
The main story isn't particularly long, but with the epilogue, it's sufficient. I liked the epilogue because it was harder and less predictable, but the story was a bit random. I think I got my money's worth out of the game since I bought it on sale, but I can't say that I enjoyed this as much as I did the first game. It wasn't bad, though.… Expand