What a disappointment, i went in expecting more of Shadow Warrior 1, just a regular ass doom clone (compliment) instead i get this wannabe Monster Hunter? i like the idea of side missions to break up some of the story and add some spice to the plot, instead you get like 3 or 4 areas you keep going back and forth on killing getting an item, rinse and repeat.
They added this dumbass rpg weapons system where you can get different skills and elements to weapons (ranged or melee) which is just annoying, i'm not playing an mmo, but also that goes out the window when a toxic sword mows throw every enemy in the game.

Speaking of the plot, there's some major world building details that are just straight missing and it goes beyond just "visual story telling" but whatever, the plot itself is lame specially compared to the 1st one which wasn't some oscar winning script either but the characters make up for it, here lo wang is way more annoying than fun (i legit heard the same "you demons look all the same" phrase 5 times in a row + tons of unfunny jokes) and Kamiko is so annoying for over half the game, miss my man Hoji.
Anyway plot, characters just come and go it feels like they just put together whatever they found for it, but most egregious is the gameplay, it gets so monotonous besides a couple boss battles the rest are just "demon/robot" or "larger demon/robot", not a lot of variety when resistances don't matter much.

I'll just stop here, anyway visually great but bland game with none of the charm of the previous one with horrible looter mechanics that goes on for 2 extra hours than needed and it's only a 7 hour game, hope 3 fixes itself a bit.

I'll add some positive things, the music was cool (not great VA tho) and i guess the combat mechanics are not that bad but for how many guns there are on the game you really just end up using whatever you get on a mission and is stronger than your current (i didn't spend a single coin in stores)

Reviewed on Dec 28, 2022


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