Played the entire game co-op except for the final boss, then did like half of another co-op campaign. I also beat the final boss solo.
I liked the first Remnant game, but based on initial reactions I thought Remnant II would be noticeably better. It really doesn't feel any better than the first game to me.
The randomized nature of the game is still awful imo. Extremely boring environments to walk around in as connective tissue for mediocre dungeons and roll-of-the-dice boss fights. Because each area has so many bosses, and each zone can appear in any order randomly, the entirety of difficulty is based on damage scaling, and frankly I think it doesn't feel good.
Especially in co-op the bosses get massively more health, and reviving your teammates requires several seconds of uninterrupted action. Many bosses can repeatedly attack you and move quickly, making it very hard to actually play this game co-op.
The medic class at least gets an ability to "shout" your teammates awake instantly, but it's got a long cooldown and so if your teammates fall repeatedly you're kinda stuck.
The loot is kinda laughable. Most stuff is absurdly buried in this game, and the trinkets you keep picking up give extremely meager upgrades most of the time.
The main character is written like they're in a Marvel film smiling at the camera as they spew snark... but everyone else is taking it very seriously.
The goat people are still cool btw.
Frankly I hated the final boss. Its second phase involves sooooo many flashing red lights and impossible to discern attacks, plus it employs intentionally glitched visuals and repeatedly teleports you along with changing forms. It's difficulty through extreme visual distress, rather than being about learning patterns and punishing you for being too bold. It's nearly impossible to resurrect your team in this fight, so if anyone goes down you're kinda screwed because the boss has an absurdly massive health pool in 3 player mode.
Also man do all the characters talk too much and just infodump weird shit at you.
Some of the puzzles were cool! Bit of a mixed bag though.
I liked the first Remnant game, but based on initial reactions I thought Remnant II would be noticeably better. It really doesn't feel any better than the first game to me.
The randomized nature of the game is still awful imo. Extremely boring environments to walk around in as connective tissue for mediocre dungeons and roll-of-the-dice boss fights. Because each area has so many bosses, and each zone can appear in any order randomly, the entirety of difficulty is based on damage scaling, and frankly I think it doesn't feel good.
Especially in co-op the bosses get massively more health, and reviving your teammates requires several seconds of uninterrupted action. Many bosses can repeatedly attack you and move quickly, making it very hard to actually play this game co-op.
The medic class at least gets an ability to "shout" your teammates awake instantly, but it's got a long cooldown and so if your teammates fall repeatedly you're kinda stuck.
The loot is kinda laughable. Most stuff is absurdly buried in this game, and the trinkets you keep picking up give extremely meager upgrades most of the time.
The main character is written like they're in a Marvel film smiling at the camera as they spew snark... but everyone else is taking it very seriously.
The goat people are still cool btw.
Frankly I hated the final boss. Its second phase involves sooooo many flashing red lights and impossible to discern attacks, plus it employs intentionally glitched visuals and repeatedly teleports you along with changing forms. It's difficulty through extreme visual distress, rather than being about learning patterns and punishing you for being too bold. It's nearly impossible to resurrect your team in this fight, so if anyone goes down you're kinda screwed because the boss has an absurdly massive health pool in 3 player mode.
Also man do all the characters talk too much and just infodump weird shit at you.
Some of the puzzles were cool! Bit of a mixed bag though.