Darkest Dungeon® II

Honestly a huge downgrade from the original for me. Its infused with too much of the modern roguelike slop that ive come to despise, such as over-focus on metaprogression and slay the spire type maps. Its also far less free than the original, as you start with far options for heroes (4, so every run at the beggining will feature the same characters), and those characters have less skills to mix and match. You can unlock more by spending the metacurrency, but it just feels bad to be so restricted, especially as a first impression.

Feels like a downgrade from the original. No home base, no roster of heroes to raise, and most noticeably, no overall campaign that made this game feel fun. It's been boiled down to your average 'Isaac' roguelite mechanics with some boring meta progression.

Ngl its just not Darkest Dungeon Not ahving your characters carrying over between each game, makes it so idgaf about loosing some1 and removes a big part of the game's tension. I guess if anything the combat feels better

我打通了一遍我英雄就没了？我东西还需要重新买？又要重新招募英雄重新来？我角色都没死 东西角色技能全部不给我保留？还真不如1代 虽然1代也恶心 但是第二代设计的乱糟糟的 不清晰 给人感觉复杂 还要重复重复 真没意思 这游戏但凡1代的样子改进下 降低点恶心的东西 都卖爆了 可惜开发商并不懂 只知道加各种恶心的BUFF恶心玩家 是真就不想让玩家玩的爽一点 玩了一会儿觉得没意思 很无聊

I have 240+ hours in darkest dungeon I. The art, sound, animations, character designs are great in darkest dungeon 2. But I don't seem to figure out how are you supposed to play and enjoy the second game. It feels like you have to play until you magically get the right rolls and items. There's not much else to it, play and lose, until you have the luck to randomly get a synergy of quirks, items and encounters. It sucks. Truly, I'm disappointed in the direction this game went. I don't feel like it's respecting my time, I don't want to play until RNG is on my side, and having played a lot of other turn based strategy games, I don't believe this is a skill issue on my side, it's just not for me or people who only have a few hours every other day to play.

If you were a fan of the first game, don't buy this one. All the returning systems from the first one have been made more tedious.

No... just no

The antithesis of fun

The game fundamentally fails at core decision making logic when it comes to permanent or additive bonuses that are outside the grindy core gameplay loop. Hero memories unlock skills that you barely use or just wont be able to use properly at all in a run, and if you clear a stage and your party wipes (as is intended in this game), you lose ALL the bonuses you put into that party. Cannot recommend unless you actually want to waste hours at a time just buffing the bonuses of just quality of life instead of the ACTUAL PARTY and combat.

Even tho this game is quite different from the first, the developers took a risk in making a different game while keeping most of the roster and combat flow. Where the game shines through is in it's self reflecting narrative, confessions offer a psychological analysis of becoming a prisoner of your own mind, it's brilliant. This is a different Darkest Dungeon where it being "2" isn't quite accurate, this is Darkest Dungeon: Mind Dive. Doesn't sound as good but if you enjoyed the first one for the combat and don't mind a game that rewards you by giving your full attention to it, try it. It's quite a clever game and I hope it gets celebrated more instead of being compared to the first one. I have almost 300 hours and still haven't explored Kingdoms