Lost Horizon 2

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.

I also don't like action sequences in adventures. Fortunately, at last here they are rare, short and easy. I had more problems with the puzzles. Often not very intuitive and rather messy and trial and error (lever puzzle like). Also the story begins rather interesting but gets a bit over the top at the end. But: between all this, there are some good parts. In some segment I had fun and I played until the ending - something I cannot say about every adventure game I started. So, if you have no idea for an adventure game you can give this a try, but there are many better option out there (for example Lost Horizon 1, doing everything better with more interesting locations)

I do like this game, but it is not that good than original one was. But still it is playable game after all.

The game is a solid adventure game, with an interesting story, good puzzles and graphics. Compared to the first game, the developers tried new ideas and most of the changes don't really worked out well, but it is still a good game. If you enjoyed the first game and like point and click adventure games this is a very good choice.

Everything works amazingly well in this game. Hats off to the game creators who dared to step into another field; creativity at times involves risk. The result in this game is SUCCESS! No bugs, very entertaining, mind-captivating, fluid experience. The puzzle aspect is very straightforward and rewards common sense. What's not to like about traversing several environments in different areas of the globe in an Indiana-stylish sort of way, experiencing all this through a father/daughter relationship (which in games is a rarity) travelling through time to change aspects in order to save those you love? https://youtu.be/Ex8w7QCv8QA Highlight the above with your cursor, Control C, open your browser, Control V, hit Return/Enter, enjoy!