Oof. I know it wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but I fair enjoyed 1. Bored to tears by this though, sacked it off pretty quick.

Graphically it's pretty impressive, but big chunks of it early on are so dark that I was just stumbling about looking for a way forward. I missed a bunch of the voice logs, and I think it's at least partly down to how it looks so realistic that it's hard to be actually read as a game (though I have this issue with a lot of modern games TBF).

The puzzles are exactly the same stuff as before, but easier. WTF.

Combat in 1 was simple, but felt pretty dynamic, I often found myself stunning one guy then switching to another, flipping between them and doing flashy combos. Here it's all one on one, and while it looks great it feels like a QTE sequence that replaces visual cues with trial and error. Tedious shit.

And while I may well have misread it, I felt like some of the more supernatural elements of 1 could have been attributed to Senua's psychosis, yet here it's just "yep there's an underground night giant, we all know about it". I dunno. Feels cheap somehow.

Disappointing!