Most of the time you encounter said enemy on the way to your objective, and then are free to head straight to the end. In Shadow Warrior 2, each level contains a single unique, named enemy that nets you a bonus achievement upon death, plus-the best part of the game-a new weapon. With Diablo or Borderlands or (changing genres here) any RPG, there’s always that chance you might find an amazing item hidden away somewhere. The levels are huge, but there’s no incentive to explore. Side quests are the weakest part of the game though-not just because they disrupt the story but because they mostly involve going to a huge, wide-open area, ignoring 90 percent of it, following a line straight to your objective, and murdering a few people/creatures/demons along the way.Īnd this is really Shadow Warrior 2’s problem. (It’s only twelve hours even if you do literally every mission. You might as well just go do the sidequests because…well, why not? There are only four or five per story section, and skipping them just makes the game shorter.
It’s much more banal, the preponderance of go-here-kill-this missions made worse because they’re coming from characters who show up with barely any context and depart the same way.Īnd instead of one unbroken chain, Wang’s story is now picked up piecemeal from other characters in a “quest” system that feels entirely unnecessary and isn’t nearly as freeform as it pretends to be. Where Shadow Warrior had you literally trying to murder the gods, Shadow Warrior 2 is mostly about picking up Wang’s mess. The sequel isn’t quite as larger-than-life as the last game though, and that’s a shame.
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