This is a much better game than the first one and I am now actually interested in the series. better art style, better levels, more balanced difficulty, better AI (most of the time, sometimes they refuse to revive you even if you're right in front of them) and a more interesting story. The one thing that I don't like is the chainsaw mechanic, it's super fun but every time you get shot it deactivates it, fair enough, but then it takes like a ton more button presses to rev it up again, even after you've dodge rolled. after playing this I now understand why this series stayed a staple of xbox after the first one.

A cool reinvention of the 90s pc classic, Wolfenstein the new order creates some interesting lore and a cool alternate reality world (well cool in the sense of imaginative I don't think it would be cool to live in a nazi world). what made this campaign for me is the fact that instead of going the modern shooter route of making levels linear, they structured it like an old pc shooter where the levels are mazes and you have to collect health packs and armor to stay alive, but without all the backtracking and getting lost in identical locations. I will say that the narrative and the characters kinda held it back for me though. I wanted to see more awesome locations and less cutscenes and characters explaining motivations. I'm not against story games, but for this kind of game, I don't really care about long metal gear solid cutscenes or side characters, the levels are what kept me engaged and constantly having story interrupt it with boring villains I don't care about (except for Frau Engel, I really liked her) it what kept me from giving this game a higher score.

sonic fans are gonna crucify me for this, but this game in its entirety is not very good at all. some of the sonic levels are a lot of fun... and that's it. if this whole game was just sonic levels, this would've been a better game, albeit with kinda buggy levels but you could look past that. there's this AWFUL overworld and the path to the next level is super cryptic in an already empty world that's zero fun to explore. voice acting and animation that borders on laughable (came out the same year as metal gear solid so not a time period excuse) but good god, it's once you do the other character campaigns where shit hits the fan. people shit on big the cat's stages but everyone forgets how AWFUL Amy Rose is to control. she's so slow, her hammer stops her in place, she is the most UNSATISFYING character to control in a platformer EVER. BUT, the chao garden is pretty damn cool.

When this game came out, it was incredible, great music, awesome atmosphere, great variety in levels, enemies and bosses. But GOOD LORD is it fucking difficult. I technically haven't finished this game yet because I keep dying at the Dracula boss fight. I'm no stranger to a challenge in a video game, but NES games are something else man. Dark souls I can beat, I can't even get past stage 2 of most NES games unless it's mario. And good lord dracula is a motherfucker in this game. You may say I suck, and to that I say, I agree, but also NES games' difficulty is mostly horseshit.

beautiful Graphics, great variety in levels, oozing with spooky atmosphere and one of the best soundtracks of the 16 bit era , however the only thing that keeps this from getting a perfect score is the difficulty spikes. not all of the NES era horseshit is gone from this game. hell if I didn't know about the hanging whip exploit, I would've never beaten the grim reaper. some of the difficulty spikes are truly horsehit especially towards the end but this is still one of the greatest games on the super nintendo

Great game? heck yeah. Best game of all time? not even close. I think this game gets too much praise sometimes and waay too much exposure on youtube but despite that, this game is still pretty amazing. It was revolutionary when it came out and there's still so much creativity to be had in single player or multiplayer. multiplayer on your own world with your friends however is such a pain in the dick. you have to do a lot of shit and watch hours of tutorials to open your world to your friends, or just pay for the realms mode. complete rip off imo.