You'll spend most of your time
walking around environments, talking to various characters, finding items and solving puzzles — all presented in a gorgeous art style.
I was able to craft ammunition for my ranged weapons, including two different types for one of them, by collecting resources
from around the environment as well as from fallen robots.
Had there been more players
driving around the environment then the open world would have been much more fun, but at the moment it just feels... empty.
It is this ability to really
fly around the environment during these fights that really make this whole experience more diverse and enjoyable.
And this time
around environments play a huge factor as you no longer can be spotted while hiding behind environmental objects.
As a floating virtual head, you're able to explore your surroundings and move freely
around the environment following the characters as they go about their business.
The ability to jump, grind, and
fly around environments has reached its fullest potential and couldn't be more fun to play with.
To make sure you're never left idly moving the
cursor around the environment in order to discover what can be interacted with Darkestville Castle employs one of the adventure game genres few innovations in the form of a button that highlights everything of interest.
Still, I appreciate the choice to keep players running
around the environment like headless chickens, especially since Renee herself presumably isn't up to doing that kind of thing.
Using a first - person perspective the goal is to get through the levels and tackle the objective, either through sneaky tactics like
clambering around the environment or by just charging in and killing everything using guns, swords and magic powers.
This helps keep combat feeling difficult but fair, and ensures that rather than scrounging
around the environment in the hopes of finding ammo, you can actually engage with the threats in order to shoot more.
All of these powers are limited by the amount of Amber you have coursing through your veins, replenished by quaffing bottles of the stuff
found around the environments.
When you find strange people and strange
things around your environment, make immediate report to security agencies that are close to you for immediate and necessary action.»
Where the first game focused almost entirely on
zipping around environments and slaying titans, Attack on Titan 2 offers quite a bit more to do.
Each of the four characters also has a special ability, which will assist them in moving
around the environment while also helping other characters in a variety of ways, like Lara's grappling hook that allows her to swing from hooks or lower other characters to safety.
Visually this works quite nicely, as you can chain them together to pull blocks through the air to land on, and grapple
around the environment as they shift around you.
The game allows players to search for, capture, and train Pokémon
characters around their environment thanks to a technology known as augmented reality, which displays graphical characters (in this case, Pokémons) over the real world captured via the device's camera.
While I didn't see the logo during the opening moments of the game, I have to think Rockstar is using it again because of how well characters move and
behave around the environment.
Leaping and climbing your
way around the environment is literally as easy as tapping a single button while pushing in the correct direction, throwing Monkey around with reckless abandon as he gracefully swings and clambers.