This review contains spoilers
Evil playthrough for platinum - similarly to the first game, but perhaps even more annoying because the general level of stupidity of this one is a bit lower, the choices are entirely meaningless (except for the Very Last one, which is different from 1 tbf, this one actually has two endings).
If evil you hunch over and spontaneously grow tattoos and rings and your shirt gets ripped. But in the main missions and non-karma side missions, you act exactly the same, have the exact same lines, etc. Care about your friends etc etc.
Stupid Karma Things Spoilers Rant:
Good side mission: Kill militia guys who are dressed as militia guys
Evil side mission: Kill militia guys who are not dressed as militia guys
More than one evil side mission: Throw a car at a building doing no damage and injuring no one.
Related to this there are a couple moment when being evil, where you engineer a problem and then "pretend" to rescue people from it, to Trick them into liking you. But then other ones such as the carthrowing ones are explicity to get people to Fear you, to keep them on edge etc. This also applies to the general "evil karma opportunities" i.e. "kill everyone all the time. So what is the plan eh
Main mission storm the fort. At issue: whether to use the thing. Good option: Do use the thing, but with blue girl. Evil option: Do use the thing, but with red girl.
Good playthrough: be nice to blue girl
Evil playthrough: be nice to red girl
Neither of them stops being an ally until Right at the end
In the mission where you decide either to free the cops or to burn down a mansion injuring all the hostages (are there any hostages .. idk). The red girl is canonically wrong... she is like don't save the cops they'll turn on you. They do not
Annoying thing: Nix's monsters, of which there seem to be literally 3, (an "army") she gets them whether you help her get them or not, she takes them away whether you help her and use them or not, they get killed offscreen regardless also.
Annoying thing: when you meet John he convinces you to heal the "special woman" by saying omg you have to help her what you want her to die etc. You do not have the option of not being convinced to help. She is invincible ps. And this is the guy leading you to the evil ending ...
Final Annoying thing:
The ending .. there are actually two different endings ... you have to choose between yourself and a few people, the needs of the many etc.
BUT the second you're like hmm now how will I decide, the vaguely interesting moment is undercut by THE STUPID TWIST where red girl is nice, for purposes of revenge cause she loves her "babies" (former actual people mutated into slime beasts), and blue girl is evil for .... just no reason .... just entirely contradicts everything she has done up to this instant
dumb !!
reasonably fun game to play tho obviously I got through it twice in quick succession lol. The relative usefulness of the evil powers as compared to the good powers was better in this game than the first one. But overall the powers and esp. melee were worse.
If evil you hunch over and spontaneously grow tattoos and rings and your shirt gets ripped. But in the main missions and non-karma side missions, you act exactly the same, have the exact same lines, etc. Care about your friends etc etc.
Stupid Karma Things Spoilers Rant:
Good side mission: Kill militia guys who are dressed as militia guys
Evil side mission: Kill militia guys who are not dressed as militia guys
More than one evil side mission: Throw a car at a building doing no damage and injuring no one.
Related to this there are a couple moment when being evil, where you engineer a problem and then "pretend" to rescue people from it, to Trick them into liking you. But then other ones such as the carthrowing ones are explicity to get people to Fear you, to keep them on edge etc. This also applies to the general "evil karma opportunities" i.e. "kill everyone all the time. So what is the plan eh
Main mission storm the fort. At issue: whether to use the thing. Good option: Do use the thing, but with blue girl. Evil option: Do use the thing, but with red girl.
Good playthrough: be nice to blue girl
Evil playthrough: be nice to red girl
Neither of them stops being an ally until Right at the end
In the mission where you decide either to free the cops or to burn down a mansion injuring all the hostages (are there any hostages .. idk). The red girl is canonically wrong... she is like don't save the cops they'll turn on you. They do not
Annoying thing: Nix's monsters, of which there seem to be literally 3, (an "army") she gets them whether you help her get them or not, she takes them away whether you help her and use them or not, they get killed offscreen regardless also.
Annoying thing: when you meet John he convinces you to heal the "special woman" by saying omg you have to help her what you want her to die etc. You do not have the option of not being convinced to help. She is invincible ps. And this is the guy leading you to the evil ending ...
Final Annoying thing:
The ending .. there are actually two different endings ... you have to choose between yourself and a few people, the needs of the many etc.
BUT the second you're like hmm now how will I decide, the vaguely interesting moment is undercut by THE STUPID TWIST where red girl is nice, for purposes of revenge cause she loves her "babies" (former actual people mutated into slime beasts), and blue girl is evil for .... just no reason .... just entirely contradicts everything she has done up to this instant
dumb !!
reasonably fun game to play tho obviously I got through it twice in quick succession lol. The relative usefulness of the evil powers as compared to the good powers was better in this game than the first one. But overall the powers and esp. melee were worse.