There's just a certain vibe to this game, man. You know?

“Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel – merely terribly, terribly good at his job.”
~Sir Terry Pratchett

• Better graphics all around
• A larger world with more dungeons and places to find a larger variety of collectibles
• New weapon and damage types for better setting apart different enemy encounters with new combos and elemental weakness to consider
• New abilities and powers for you to build into with new stats that make very different feeling builds
• Plenty of new and creative puzzles to figure out with a new set of tools that can be used in combat as well
• A solid story that directly follows the consequences of Wars actions from the end of the first game
• A new area in each region that functions as a wave combat loot farming zone for when your loot gets a bit weak or stale
• The protagonists drive to keep going is much more reasonable and understandable considering everything he does is to bring back humanity and save his brother

• The game punishes you for using the far end of the difficulty slider before playing NG+. Having a full tool kit and solid build is the only way for most encounters to feel reasonable on the highest difficulty so if you want to play through the game like that, expect to be instantly killed often or left so low that any fight that drags on is almost not worth trying unless you have a build that lets you heal to full health very fast. I understand that playing on the highest difficulty means its going to be hard but I want it to be because my skill set needs improvement, not a stat sheet from Morrowind.
• The boss encounters can sometimes feel like a strange imitation of a Dark Souls boss with the way that they move and attack. This wouldn't be a problem if the lock on camera was more understanding and you didn't have to constantly hold the button to stay locked onto the ONE enemy in the room. You'll find yourself learning attack patterns and finding moments to get in some damage but all of that takes a back seat to fighting the camera when you get pressed near a wall.
• The items and stats that they come with feel far too limiting with how rarely you get items that really fit your build. There are sets of legendary armor and weapons that drop at specific points in the game that often overshadow all of your other gear so any time you spend equipping a set of items to better suit your preferred play style will almost always be totally useless as soon as you get armor or a weapon that does something else but far better than anything you had. I was playing on the hardest difficulty which tells you that you will get more loot and higher quality loot more often but in retrospect that didn't matter as all of my cool purple items that helped me do more damage with summoned ghouls were garbage in comparison to the set that I just found that makes melee WAY stronger that anything I could build for.

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