Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 Review (Steam)
Our Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 Review has us continuing the story of the first action RPG with rogue-like elements based on the Lovecraft Mythos. Brand new graphics, a new and complex crafting system to create your equipment, 6 playable characters, and lots and lots of incredibly challenging content!
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 Review Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 4.42GB Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Full controller support.
- Graphics settings – resolution, v-sync, and fullscreen.
- Comic book strip style cutscenes.
- Adventure gameplay.
- Isometric view.
- 3 classes to choose from – Professor, Detective, and Witch.
- Multiple choice encounters.
- Twin stick shooter combat.
- Loot items and resources from the environment and enemies.
- Sinister soundtrack.
- Quick equip items assigned to the d-pad.
- When you die all held items are dropped.
- End-of-life breakdown including how you died.
- Gain and lose sanity which affects what you see and enemies.
- 3 additional characters to unlock.
- Main storage point for items and resources.
- Full crafting model where you collect blueprints and resources.
- Really cool character art.
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 Review Cons:
- Cannot rebind controls for both keyboard and the controller.
- Bare minimum graphics settings.
- No real tutorial or help.
- Not the best loading times.
- The shooting makes a horrible noise.
- Clunky menus.
- Cannot move or zoom in with the camera.
- Small claustrophobic areas to fight in.
- Hard to see what you can interact/loot with.
- Slow-paced.
- A lot of reading.
- No Co-op or multiplayer.
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Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2:
Developer: LLC Blini Games
Publisher: Fulqrum publishing
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Summary
Having played the first one, I was looking forward to playing the sequel. A sequel to me is a game that builds on what it has, adds in new things like mechanics or gimmicks, and generally feels like a step up, Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 is not any of that. In fact, I would say it’s a step back as the locations are smaller, tighter, and harder to navigate, and the combat is awkward noisy, and not fun. The story is OK but it’s just loads of text and voiceless characters with the occasional multiple choice parts. I never once found myself actually enjoying the game, everything was a slow slog to death and frustration. It’s just not a well-thought-out game, the pacing is off, the game has less polish than the first game, and it’s overall a very disappointing package and not worth exploring.