![]() ![]() ![]() Spared the Hunter and won Torren's Legacy, a great weapon. No problem finding and defeating the Headsman. Sucked back into Infinity Blade II with Skycages, the final content update. But it probably would have been intolerable for longer stretches. That made it perfect for my purposes (I played it almost entirely during the 10-15 minute period each day while my wife was preparing our baby to go to bed). It's very much in the Angry Birds genre of pick-me-up games that reuse basic mechanics over and over again with slight variations each enemy or level. That being said, although the scenery is nice and the mechanics are perfectly serviceable, the game does get extremely repetitive. A few of them lead to further plot progression, including a definitive ending that is a lot easier to find here than in IB1. After resurrection you can try again and again, upgrading yourself all the while, and eventually you'll be powerful enough to defeat it. Each one basically ended with a mega-boss who will insta-kill you the first time through if you get hit. ![]() The VO work I could frankly have done without, but the alternative paths were pretty neat. Otherwise IB2 is basically the exact same game as IB2, with several more alternative paths and some voiceover work. That makes parrying more feasible, less frustrating, and more fun, and (for me at least) substantially upgrades combat. IB2 has a lot more give - it felt like as long as you're within a 90 degree angle of the enemy's blow, you'll deflect the attack. In the old game, if my fading memory serves me right, you basically had to do what IB2 now calls a "perfect" parry in order to avoid damage. I enjoyed IB2 a great deal more than the first game, for one principal reason: parrying is A LOT easier. Knowing that, you can take everything I'm about to say with a grain of salt, depending upon your tolerance for this sort of thing. This nearly broke the game because you can buy and use super-powerful items right from the get-go, but the way I restrained myself (so to speak) was to force myself to progress up the various weapons/items paths one by one, rather than immediately getting the light saber uber-weapons and blasting through the enemies. I got so frustrated at the lack of gold that, when my brother told me about a gold exploit, I abused it to never worry about money again. Let me get this out of the way up front since some people will probably find this offensive. ![]()
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