Darksiders II
Darksiders II is parallel to the previous game. The Four Horsemen (War, Strife, Fury, and Death) are the last of the Nephilim, fusions of angels and demons who waged war on creation. To preserve the balance of the Universe, the Four, tired of conquest, received incredible powers from the Charred Council in exchange for slaughtering the rest of the Nephilim. The Horseman Death trapped the souls of his fallen brethren in an amulet, earning the title of Kinslayer, among others (though he kept its preservation a secret, since the Council ordered the Nephilim's souls destroyed). While War is charged with his crimes, the horseman Death, sure that his brother is innocent, sets out on a personal mission to erase his brother's 'crime' and resurrect humanity. He first travels to the Icy Veil—a dimension between the three kingdoms of Heaven, Hell, and Earth—to seek the Keeper of Secrets for proof of War's innocence and the way to restore Earth. The Keeper of Secrets, also known as the Crowfather, tells Death that he must go to the Tree of Life in order to restore humanity. The Crowfather, bitter about being given the Nephilim amulet (which torments him without end), refuses to let Death pass and attacks him in the shape of War. Death is thus forced to kill the Crowfather, but the Amulet shatters and embeds itself in his chest, knocking him out and sending him into a portal created by the Crowfather's death.
Steam User 20
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
Steam User 19
Darksiders II is one of the best games I've ever played in terms of Storyline, Gameplay and the best of all, The Soundtrack of this game is Freakin Awesome!! Easily the best in the Darksiders Franchise so far. Just Played it recently and completed it and I can absolutely recommend it to anyone who wish to play it as I didn't encounter any major bugs or crashes as people say so in the reviews. Just a few tips to avoid any type of crash:
1. Keep the Damage Indicators off all time.
2. Don't talk with archon (Location: Crystal Spire at Lostlight Kingdom) if you are due to level up soon (He provides 3000xp during cutscene and game tries to progress you in background and crashes).
3. Don't use redemption (Pistol) during final boss fight (You'll know who he is ;).
Happy Gaming!
Steam User 17
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
Steam User 10
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.
Steam User 8
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
Steam User 14
---{ 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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Steam User 10
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.