If I see one more teardrop thoughtbubble I'm gonna kill a kitten.
But the whole thing leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because it's SO FRUSTRATING. I'm not talking about combat difficulty or anything. It just does little things to annoy you.
I feel like the programmers are trying to chip away at my sanity little by little by making every possible action that can be performed in the game have the longest animation EVER. Dialogs are PAINFUL. Here is a sample:
"Hi" "Do you want to kill me?" (Yes/No choice)
(You select yes.)
"Oh, you're such a kidder. Now that we're friends, let's play a game!! We'll do our best!!"
And each of those fricking emotes took WAY too long. And they are all stacked up like that too. They can't use just one, everybody in the group has to gasp and one at a time, and you can't click past them.
You can't click past freaking ANYTHING. Every action in this game takes WAY too long. The puzzle aspect is great. But when you need to cast burst 57 times in one room, the three seconds of animation adds up some serious suicidal urges.
Plus, everything is way spread out. Getting back to the little blacksmith SUCKS... EVERY time you get more stuff to forge you gotta TRUDGE back. And why do you get the final power that unlocks the bonus dungeons in the middle of s$#@ nowhere right on the brink of fighting uber boss. So, there are three dungeons I can go ALL THE WAY BACK OUT to play. I guess they are secret, but they weren't all that hidden. You think about it when you get the teleport ability, but why the hell would you WANT to go all the way back out? Seriously. Annoying.
The plot sucks. Nothing happens. Stupid kids blundering through things. After two games, we're not even really sure if they are saving the world or not. It's not that hard to make them the bad guys if you think about it a little bit. The whole first GAME was misguided and the second one starts out with a total reversal. Great plot angle or just plain stupid...?
Considering that every moral choice that lets you pick "yes or no" is completely ignored, and that all the characters are miserable pre-teen twerps that I'd love to submit for the victims of the next Saw movie, I'm going with stupid. I swear, there were some really dumb moments where I just wanted to kill tear the tongue out of some NPC, and it's like "Kill them? (Y/N)" and I'm like YES!!! YES D@#$IT!!! KILL THE F@$#ER!!!!
But it didn't matter. We gotta like... be friends with everybody... and not kill the bad dudes so they can come back and fight us 8 more times....
This pre-teen plot nonsense needs to end.... soon....