Jonesy89: I also am disappointed in LoG 2. I wanted to like it so much, but there are a number of things that just killed my enjoyment of the game. The lack of the same structure that gave LoG 1 a good sense of progression (start from the top, work down into more complex areas), the needlessly complicated character creation, the decision to implement lasting injuries that all but demand that you have a useless alchemist on hand, the lack of any kind of build up to harder riddles, the unforgiving combat... all of it eventually got on my tits so much that I quit the game in favor of replaying the first.

shadowbaneaxe: My experience has been different. The first game was entertaining, but felt a bit monotonous. Some of the secrets were really "out there" and seemed extremely random when it came to natural discovery (like: remove a torch here and a door will temporarily open halfway across the map). I consulted online walkthroughs to find a significant number of the better rewards in the game there after clearing all the levels on my own. The combat in it was really quite silly because most of it could be won by dancing around enemies.

LoG 2 is significantly more varied with locales. Enemies are often very challenging - sometimes frustratingly so - but that just makes the victories much sweeter. Many of them use mechanics that discourage circle strafing them to death and trying to rely on it will regularly get you pinned in a corner. The amount of puzzles and secrets is absolutely astonishing in LoG 2, and while a lot of them are fairly easy and mundane switch and pressure plate puzzles, some of them are really ingenious. Almost any puzzle that requires some outside the box thinking to solve has a hint provided somewhere in the game to crack it. So they're not dependent on excessive amounts of trial and error or random chance to stumble upon a solution. I looked online for help to find a secret that I knew was there but which I wasn't able to crack due to vague hints (or a lack thereof) only a couple of times, and only once was it for a puzzle that was required to advance through a dungeon (and in the end it made sense and I felt stupid for not figuring it out myself, because there was an obvious clue that I missed). Another great thing about puzzle/secret rewards in LoG 2; many of them aren't unique and those that are aren't significantly more powerful than the alternatives you'll find. So if you can't manage to discover the solution to a few puzzles, you won't suffer for it if you skip them.

Now, I've felt the desire to take a break a couple of times as well, but mainly because I wanted to get back to the game later with a fresh mind to work on puzzles I didn't manage to solve, or because I'd just finished a dungeon/one of those frustratingly hard fights and/or twitch puzzles after reloading my save game a couple dozen times. I don't consider that a weak point of the game though. It's good that it tests your skills and perseverance regularly.