Idk I got annoyed w this one and felt more positive on the first game. It's louder and gorier for sure, but the horror atmosphere feels subdued in favor of grimier designs with more detail but less artistry. And for how much later this one released, none of the gameplay has meaningfully improved. Makes it transparent how much content has to be reused over the runtime to meet a decent length. Also just felt harder than 1, but more annoyingly so. So many bosses that feel too memorization heavy for a game with such deceptive hitboxes - hell, so many sections like the elevator escape that are LITERALLY nothing but memorization checks. Maybe I'd be more positive if I save stated this one too - for all I know maybe 1 was also bad like this. My fault for having a boomer identity crisis.

Whole game feels like a copout? Fuck are you trying to make a good ending out of 1's intentionally harrowing setup for? 'You save Jennifer this time' fuck off, that's such a boring ass reversal.

Reviewed on Jul 18, 2022


5 Comments


1 year ago

let my man save jennifer bro. on god

1 year ago

jennifer is DEAD dead, she got her skin mutilated eight different ways and rick punched a hole through her guts. let her ass rest in peace

1 year ago

nah shes ALIVE and it sets up the DEEP STAKES for the THIRD ONE

1 year ago

yeah bro that wood stake is deep as hell in her lungs

7 months ago

To be honest I kinda love this one. I’ll admit I haven’t played the original but I even with that I still saw this has a great horror side scroller. And yeah it’s a bit of a cop out you save Jennifer but i always interpreted it as getting her out of hell from the scene you see her soul getting dragged down. So it’s still pretty dark even if you technically save her by the end.