![]() Unforgivable stuttering and hitches layered on top of that lack of feedback only makes the experience worse. There are few video or audio cues for when a command has been successfully delivered, and the sluggish units, who mostly wander about instead of snapping to attention, rarely give the impression that they are actually doing anything. ![]() The lack of instruction is further hampered by the dearth of feedback in the game. A simple objective like “take a squad of orcs out of the dungeon” would become a 15-minute nightmare of trying to search through the vindictively meager help menu trying to find a button or command to tell the orcs to GTFO (turns out you need to manually scoop them up in your giant evil hand and unceremoniously drop them at the door). The first several missions largely function as tutorials where the player is tasked with certain objectives (create this type of trap, train this unit, station guards here, that sort of thing) but the game is almost maliciously opaque about how to accomplish these goals. Not all of the jokes hit their mark, and occasionally the narrator’s more long-winded speeches can bog down the pace (not letting you proceed from an area until the narrator finishes a spiel you’ve already read in the subtitles), but for the most part, it is a noble attempt. And the fourth wall gets knocked on so often it practically has dents. Evil cackling is wrung for all its worth. Clich és of the RPG fantasy genre are lanced. You carve out tunnels, set up breweries and treasuries to keep your mooks happy and employed, and of course, construct the most devious gauntlet of traps, guards, and horrors possible to disembowel any would-be do-gooders who might try to stop you.Īll of this is presented in a flippant, comical tone, which is largely carried by narrator Kevan Brighting, who you may remember from the Stanley Parable. ![]() You play the part of a big bad overlord of doom who relentlessly micro-manages hordes of goblins and orcs to build a profitable and deadly dungeon (think Sauron with an MBA). The best parts of Dungeons 2 follow in the footsteps of Dungeon Keeper and similar games. ![]()
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