SIMULACRA 2

I would HIGHLY advise anyone prone to epileptic seizures to avoid this game. I enjoyed it, but I think it's trying way too hard to one-up the previous entry. I suppose that's not a bad thing in itself, but a few of the Spook (TM) parts have so much distortion that you can't read the subtitles, and worse still, the epilogue's visuals made my eyes hurt. The story didn't grip me as much in this one, but that's down to personal preference. I could do without the download size forcing 4k videos on me, yikes. Overall, I don't regret my purchase at all ($9 is a fantastic price, I'm so glad more puzzle games are releasing at a low price), but I liked the first one better.

If you like games like "Orwell", "The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker", "Her Story", "Sara is missing", or most of all, "Simulacra" 1, I think you'll like this. It has some definite improvements over its processors: -The graphics were incredibly high quality (4K). -A lot of tongue-in-cheek humor, which I appreciated. Themes include: "Health crazes", to "MLMs" to "the inability of old people to use technology". It's great. -Once you beat the game, you unlock a map of the branching choices of the game, allowing you to trace potential paths, and see all the content. -You also unlock "fast mode", allowing you to speed through the game on subsequent runs. -I loved the "cards" -I loved the TMC posts. But there were also a few steps back. Nothing worth knocking it down from five stars, but here are my criticisms: -The endings weren't up to par, with the first Simulacra. In the first, the best ending was difficult to get, and the worst was the easiest. All of the endings were different enough. In Simulacra 2, there are 7 endings, 6 bad and 1 good. But the good is very easy to get, and the bad you achieve (more or less) by being a jerk to someone. -For all the commentary on social media or influences, the main antagonist didn't really have anything profound to say, like they did in Simulacra 1. -Also, the big baddy felt more physically manifest, whereas in Simulacra 2, it was more psychologically manifest. Still, I really loved the game, and can't wait to see what the devs turn out next!

I really loved both Simulacra games. Casual puzzles and a suspenseful story. I hope there will be a third game in the near future.

So since playing part 1, and seeing Markiplier play this game, I decided to dive in it also. I truly like the idea, that so many things can happen. My first playthrough got the good ending. Also, minor thing at times its so hard to get the clues and the help clues aren't really helpfull at times and it takes ages to find them all. In the end I still missed clues which I had no idea where they were. Above all, I enjoyed the , the acting wasn't perfect but I didn't mind at all. It is for the game itself of course. If you like searching around on a haunted phone and making like your own decision in some of the answers, than you should totally play it. I got it through the summer sale of steam and it was worth my money. I hope for a Simulacra 3