Dishonored 2

enough map variety that I played a stealth run through, then imediately played a full combat high chaos NG+ Awesome and fresh both times. 11/10

I have over 10 hours of gameplay through Lutris in EndeavourOS and 80+ hours on Steam and I just can't stop playing it. The graphics are beautiful (especially the water effect under water). The AI is very fun to play with. The story is extremely good, just like in the first game. I truly enjoy every bit of it. At first, I played with normal difficulty. After a while, I changed the difficulty to custom settings, set to the hardest you can set it to. Now it's just pure entertainment at the same time it's challanging sometimes. Highly recommending!

Great Game in my life!! Life goes on with Lord Corvo Artano.

More of the greatness that came from the first game. Glad to dump some time into it.

Dishonored 2 offers more replayability than D1 by virtue of having two characters to choose from (and allowing dedicated no magic runs), but it fails to live up to the quality of the original. The vaulting/climbing/parkor took a serious downgrade, seemingly from the nuances of the level design. Intuitive vault points frequently just don't work - the character makes no attempt to scramble up over seemingly-viable obstacles. Sometimes small cosmetic protrusions (like a piece of trim board) preclude jumping or standing up at all. The level builders either didn't grok the way the engine works as well as those of D1, or there wasn't enough playtesting. The heart returns, but rarely has any contextual insights. In the first game you could learn a ton about the city by listening to the heart pontificate - here, it says the same few stock phrases over and over. Weird visual effects crop up frequently - stationary hovering birds 'flying'. The hot tip of a burning cigar hanging three inches in midair past the end of the actual cigar. That kind of thing. Level design, again, just isn't up to snuff. NPCs will give Hello/Goodbye statements at a set radius, and a bit of platforming out of their line of sight will clip into their sphere so they'll start hi/bye cycles. Warnings about nearby collectables seem near constant, but are rarely associated to anything the player is actually in a position to acquire - it'll be on another floor or something 90% of the time. Sometimes guards notice you thirty feet in the air, sometimes they can't see you if you're standing on a card table. Finding books, letters, and throwable glassware makes up a huge part of the scrounging around, but the levels are loaded with nonreadable books/letters and glued-to-the-table glasses, so it's like looking for needles in haystacks. If you liked Dishonored, you know what you're getting. Just go in knowing it's a little rougher around the edges. It's fun, but loaded with annoying "Really?" moments.