Remnant 2

It’s fucking brilliant so far. Only been pissing about in the first proper area, then did a side area which was very cool (and contained a massive wtf moment when a boss appeared out of nowhere with bugger all warning). I’ve gone the dog handler because who doesn’t want a good boy at your side.

Yeah, I really liked the first one. The hub world was a bit shit, some of the puzzles were a bit obtuse and the last boss was such a difficulty spike it forced me to respec but, overall, it was actually really fun.

I did play it very, very late though and had, by all accounts, a very different experience to people who played the shitty v1.

I thought this should be just my kind of game, but I am finding it ... a bit shit so far.

First of all, what's with the (not remappable) controls? L1 = health, R1 = weapon alt mode, but L1+R1 = special skill? I've yet to try and use the special skill without either taking a potion or activating weapon alt mode.

I also find it annoying. It's not difficult because you need any skills, but because of flying enemies that randomly spawn behind you, which you don't even see on the mini map. When I've died so far, enemies spanwing behind me were the reason.

And then there's the map, where you can never quite tell where the map ends and you'll run into poison, and where you haven't explored yet.

Hohum. I am not giving up yet, but so far it feels not very well designed.

Started it last night, was surprised to hear even the starting world you go with is different for other players. I got the Bloodborne looking one. Solid so far, my primary issue is that there's a loooot of dialogue if you want to talk to characters and for one it's not presented very well. Camera is too far away to even see the NPC, you're locked in, there's no camera changes. And secondly it doesn't seem that particularly interesting. But so far, the shoot bang section are decent. Joined a random persons session in co op and had a blast as we were figuring out the progression through the dungeon and gaining access to the secrets, ending in a pretty creative boss

Thanks, I’ll try to keep an, er, ear open, but when I already fight three mobs right in front of me, I am not sure I’ll hear them spawn behind me. :-(

Her second phase is a right bitch.

I found everything too spongy and I took too much damage on Veteran so I restarted on Survivor and am finding it much smoother progress and a lot more fun. I'm playing as a gunslinger to the slow fire rate and reload on the starter gun was a real pain in Veteran but everything basically takes one shot less on Survivor and that's making things a lot more fun.

I got that. Definitely a solid start weapon.

Can't fucking beat her it's doing my head in. Phase 1 I can walk through but she always catches me with her life steal move at least once and her health goes through the fucking roof again.

Oh I know how to beat her I just keep getting caught by the grabs.

I have the smg but I don't have any scrap to upgrade it so it's a bit underpowered

It's so weird to have all started the game at roughly the same time but all have different experiences due to different starting areas.

I fucking hated that boss fight.

Ditto Nightweaver tbh.

Bosses have definitely been the weakest area of the game so far.

Really? The big beam thing? That kept twatting me. Although on hindsight I was thinking could I just perhaps duck behind one of the large pipes?

The wee blobs kept KO'ing my doggy