Darksiders II

Zelda for grown-ups
There are some bugs and glitchs and the game has a LOT of puzzles, more than should have
But despite of that the game is Spetacular.
* One of best Scenario/Environment that I've ever seen
* Very Fun Combat
* Incredible OST
* Very Charismatic characters, specially the main character
Excellent Game

100% Achievement Review: A quick review based on my experience completing all the (available) achievements.
Title: Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition
Summary: Hack n slash adventure game
Personal notes: The second in the Darksiders series, this is my personal favorite, and the reason why I decided to replay this series. Builds off of the first game perfectly with many great additions. You play as Death and are on a mission to avenge War from the first game. There are new abilities, better movement, and a proper loot and customization system. Achievement-wise, a few are difficult such as reaching Lv 30, this requires playing through NG+, or a personal difficulty I encountered.. The Crucible has 100 Waves and to beat It you have to complete all of these, my game froze about four times on the final fight on Wave 100 which would send me back to wave 76(previous checkpoint). I heard this was due to high dps on the NG+ but was frustrating regardless. Other than this, I had a great time with this game and would highly recommend it at its price, not to mention it goes on sale quite often.
Time it took to complete: 48hrs
Most difficult achievement(s):
-Epic! (Death Reaches Level 30)
-The Secondary Adventure (Complete all Secondary Quests)
-Is There Anyone Else? (Complete The Crucible)
-BFA (Unlock Everything)
Difficulty rating:
★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10
Overall rating:
★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
P.S. It crashed for me on stage 100 of the crucible so definitely annoying otherwise minor bugs.
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Really fun game with an amazing story and great combat. It's unfortunate it still has bugs/crashes.
If you keep getting a white screen after exiting your menu try capping the game to 120 fps that seemed to fully fix the problem for me.
If your game crashes during a cutscene with Archon participate in the publicbeta by right clicking the game, going to properties, and clicking betas.
If your game crashes in the Abyssal Forge DLC during the fight against the Abyssal Forge I found standing right in front of him makes him spam the AoE slam. After he does it like 8 or so times I would back away and he'd do the move where you can actually attack his face. Doing that strat made it so there wasn't 500 flames on the screen which I feel causes the crash

I first played this on the 360 and never got back to it after the big golem boss.
Collect 3 things to collect 3 things to collect 3 things to collect 3 things.
Cool hack and slash game, although very artificially inflated playtime and repetitive combat.
Death is less edgy than War, but still rather funny to play as, due how broody and gritty he is.
Combat is fun, fast paced and hits feel good. There are some variation of secondary weapons and a few combos, but its mostly button mashing.
Lots of padding, dungeons are way too long, requires a lot of backtracking. When you think you are finally finishing a dungeon, you find out you just finished part 1 out 4.
20 hours in, I was about around the mid point, I'd say.
Seem everything in this game requires you to find 3 rocks or 3 keys to progress.
Then you need to get an item and that item needs 3 other items.
"Hey Death, to bring back mankind you need to talk to this guy and ask him about to bring mankind back."
"Death, I require you to get 3 keys to unlock this door so I can tell you how to bring mankind back."
"Yes Death, I have one of the keys, but I need you to recover these 3 artifacts so I can trade it to you."
Some of my major complaints:
- The camera is really bad. You usually fight several enemies at once, trying to focus in one blocks the view of the others, but the free camera is too annoying to control while you fight.
- Too many stuff, too little shortcuts. During a certain point you will have to pause the game to swap items or activate skills, as you can only keybind 4. Subweapons and skills have to share.
- Death is slow. As in REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY slow. He won't walk faster than a slow run, even his horse (on the few places you can use him) is slow as hell and has limited dashes before you have to wait.
- No checklist for collectables. You missed one pebble or page and weren't following a guide from the start? You will have to revisit EVERY SINGLE SPOT trying to find it.
- Glitches. Had some cases of getting stuck in rocks, not being able to move after unpausing the game, the hud dissapearing, sounds stopping, puzzles not activating.
- Puzzles are streamlined. You can sometimes sequence break by jumping on some spots, but most of the time you can only jump on allowed walls, as every other ledge or wall is broken, or just can't be climbed for no reason.
Its somewhat a good game, but it really should have been 1/3, maybe 1/2, the length.

The game is one of the greatest action RPGs of all time - yes it is simple in design, content is more than enough without the DLCs, yes it has a certain degree of jank, but undoubtedly this is the best Darksiders game in my mind.

Darksiders 2 is an interesting game. If you expected it to be like darksiders 1, this is a different type of game. Death levels up, unlocks fighting abilities, gets random weapon drops. It is more diablo like than zelda like.
This game suffers from several unfortunate issues you need to know so you'll have a good time with it.
1- on modern systems, this game will run at a higher fps than it was designed to be able to handle. This means it can lock itself into a permanent loading screen on some areas pretty frequently. The workaround is simple : lock fps at 60 at driver level. Take that opportunity to also lock out vertical sync.
2- vertical sync is not correctly handled by the game. don't enable it and disable it at driver level.
3- you absolutely want to use a controller : some of the inventory cannot be reached without it.
4- if you play in full screen the game can crash when alt tabbing. This happens more in some areas and actions. Saves are frequent and can be fast, so loss of progress will be minimal but you'll have a better time if you use windowed mode.
5- if you use windowed mode, luse borderless gaming to make it become windowed borderless.
6- the game will sometimes lose audio after long plays. the only fix is to restart it.
7- some puzzles meant to unlock a door will sometimes not activate, especially when you revisit a dungeon. if that happens, save and quit, then load back in. That's fixed the doors each time when a lantern puzzle didn't activate it anymore.
8- sometimes it will still crash. it's kinda rare and usually due to other unexpected interactions. Saves are frequent, you're not too likely to have a loss of progress and I haven't had a crash reproduce themselves after restarting.
9- the first giant boss of the forge land is the worst of the game easily. the game is more fun after.
now for the real bad ones,
10 - there is only one save per playthrough possible. I don't know why, if it was possible to have multiple saves the next problem wouldn't be game breaking
11- for every 10 book of the dead pages you collect, you make a bundle. If you collect a page while you have a bundle, the 11th page will be eaten by the bundle and not be counted, locking yourself out of being able to open the 4th vault. That last vault contains items for other side quests too. If this happens, you will not be able to finish all sidequests and lock yourself out of the best weapon, some stones and a relic that would allow you to get more ability points. You technically can try again at a new game plus, but this is more likely to happen to you on a new game plus, when you want to optimize a run to get everything - and this sucks. there's no way to load another save to roll it back, the game saves frequently - so you have to finish and hopefully start another new game plus. And as weapons level when you collect them as part of a quests on ng+.... this can be quite a pain. You don't want to destroy one of those pages as you play.
TLDR : yes this game can be fun and you can get your money worth of fun in it. there's caveheats though. don't over-collect collectibles, especially dead pages and turn the bundles of 10 immediately before collecting any other page.