Posted March 06, 2017
Blood 2
Inferior to the original Blood in every possible way. The levels are less fun with significantly fewer secrets and paths to take. Less exploration in general. Weapons feel worse, generic in a way, and the enemies are far more annoying, almost unfair at times. The story is nonsensical and characters sometimes directly contradict each other(like Gabriela at the end of the first chapter makes no sense if you know what Ishmael will say at the start of the next chapter). Hell, character rarely even face each other during dialogue in the cutscenes. The game is full of stupid jokes and characters have the tendency to repeat the same lines multiple times in a row. I will never understand why Gabriel received a sex-change and is now obsessed with Jo-mama jokes (even the story makes fun of it and in the expansion it's almost a middle finger to the player).
Oh, and the game is bugged. Incredibly bugged. From floating crates and enemies, to foes standing on Caleb's head, cardboard boxes exploding into chunk of flesh and the knife making bullet sounds, some attacks going through walls, or Ishmael disappearing during the penultimate level thus forcing you to restart.
Oh man, what a disappointing game. If it was it's own thing, most people would not care at all for such a buggy, generic shooter with bad comedy. But as a sequel to Blood, it's just terribly disappointing.
5/10
The nightmare levels
More of the same but with a considerably worse story and dumber jokes. Extremely short and, just as the original Blood 2, very disappointing, and very buggy.
4/10
Inferior to the original Blood in every possible way. The levels are less fun with significantly fewer secrets and paths to take. Less exploration in general. Weapons feel worse, generic in a way, and the enemies are far more annoying, almost unfair at times. The story is nonsensical and characters sometimes directly contradict each other(like Gabriela at the end of the first chapter makes no sense if you know what Ishmael will say at the start of the next chapter). Hell, character rarely even face each other during dialogue in the cutscenes. The game is full of stupid jokes and characters have the tendency to repeat the same lines multiple times in a row. I will never understand why Gabriel received a sex-change and is now obsessed with Jo-mama jokes (even the story makes fun of it and in the expansion it's almost a middle finger to the player).
Oh, and the game is bugged. Incredibly bugged. From floating crates and enemies, to foes standing on Caleb's head, cardboard boxes exploding into chunk of flesh and the knife making bullet sounds, some attacks going through walls, or Ishmael disappearing during the penultimate level thus forcing you to restart.
Oh man, what a disappointing game. If it was it's own thing, most people would not care at all for such a buggy, generic shooter with bad comedy. But as a sequel to Blood, it's just terribly disappointing.
5/10
The nightmare levels
More of the same but with a considerably worse story and dumber jokes. Extremely short and, just as the original Blood 2, very disappointing, and very buggy.
4/10