Edited on: August 23, 2025
Posted on: April 3, 2025
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Not abysmal but not good either
If the Lost Horizon 1 was like IJ trilogy, LH2 is like the Kingdom of Crystal Skull. Both take us to the Cold War era, both portray older, less charming protagonists with children they don't quite get along, both swap n-zis for KGB agents as enemies. and both don't grow up to their predecessors' quality. Story is so-so. Adventure with involves Norse mythology and substance which could be "life-giving" or "Ragnarok", bad guys want to obtain. Very similar to "Valhalla Prophecy" by McDermott. The last chapter seems to be heavily inspired by The Last Crusade. Fenton lost all his charm since LH1. Anna is OK but Gwen is just plain boring. And there's no sight of Kim (nor explanation of her absence). I really liked KGB woman as the antagonist. Visuals are fine, music really good, although the final track is taking inspiration with Jeremy Soule's music a bit too far, nearly into the plagiarism territory. The game is a hodgepodge of many ideas, as if developers wanted to throw in everything what was popular at the time. We need to turn keys etc. "manually" like in Amnesia games (nice). We can combine multiple items in a special window, but only sometimes. LH2 has some features you wouldn't want to see in p&c game: stealth sections (very easy, so OK), puzzles on timer (always annoying in p&c) and 1 QTE (easy but needless). The game would probably be better without them. Item based puzzles are mostly fine but sometimes stupid. Who would've guessed that spear shaft (should be strong and rigid) would be a great bow if you pour water on it? Or you have several diamonds in your inventory. Try to use wrong diamond and you'll think can't combine diamond with clothes. Puzzles a bit broken (1 wrong symbol on monks' graves), misleading clues (the grave with map), strangely fiddly (tried correct combination of tiles 4 times, it worked only at 4th time), tedious (puzzle with raven is solved by slowy trying pillars again and again until you find correct combination). Rating 2,5/5.
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