North Gibraltarian Dog
Savant
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- Jan 16, 2017
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I played and finished the game some weeks ago. I enjoyed my time playing it, it's a good game with a lot of interesting design ideas, however my impression on the first days was that the game was a simple casualized/dumbed down version of the original with new and flashy but less inspired graphics, with the permanent consequences on saves and the extension of survival mechanics as the only interesting novelties. After advance some days, I started to appreciate some other changes and new features, to understand how its difficulty level is probably higher compared with the original (even if by difficulty to beat the time-limit, mostly) and has more playable content than the respective Haruspex campaign in the original game.
However I still can't say Pathologic 2 is an improvement over the original, the limited save system, the mandatory tutorial masked as narrative prologue, the timing and amount of stuff to do per day with shorter time scale, the witcher senses and the map marked objectives, the absence of true exploration, the too long theatre performances, the lack of original ethereal athmosphere, the more mundane town art design (the new kin is mostly great), the rushed way to present some characters reputations and haruspex pre-fixed opinion on them (by dialogue choices), etc, make me doubt about the totally inclined condition of this new version.
I'm now replaying Haruspex path in Pathologic HD, when I finish it I will write a extensive comparative here.
However I still can't say Pathologic 2 is an improvement over the original, the limited save system, the mandatory tutorial masked as narrative prologue, the timing and amount of stuff to do per day with shorter time scale, the witcher senses and the map marked objectives, the absence of true exploration, the too long theatre performances, the lack of original ethereal athmosphere, the more mundane town art design (the new kin is mostly great), the rushed way to present some characters reputations and haruspex pre-fixed opinion on them (by dialogue choices), etc, make me doubt about the totally inclined condition of this new version.
I'm now replaying Haruspex path in Pathologic HD, when I finish it I will write a extensive comparative here.
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