KickStarter The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

[Infinitron]

Game released: http://store.steampowered.com/app/279940/

 

[Shadenuat]

Damn I can't remember for hell what happened in first game except that I liked it and there was a level where you could play as a Critter which was pretty funny

Well playing it now, finished Ivy's sequence and started gnome's, so far it's fun

 

[Duram]

wonder if they'd removed the annoying critter voice.

 

[Bubbles]

Finally finished this a few weeks ago after taking many, many pauses. Felt extremely long, although my save game claims that it "only" took me 16 hours. It's a bit of a mixed bag, this game; it's full of pop culture references, "unique" humor and tons upon tons of cameos from old side characters, which should make fans of the first game very happy, but generally left me cold. The pacing usually felt far too slack; there's an "epic story" that only really gets rolling around the 5-6 hour mark, and even then it's unreasonably stretched out by long sequences that are basically just "here's a few puzzles, maybe you should solve them" with a bit of quirkiness slathered over them.

Puzzle design is generally decent, although the difficulty also takes quite a few hours to become even remotely challenging. The game didn't really come together for me until the final 1-2 hours, where the mix of difficulty and plot developments finally managed to approximate something above pleasant mediocrity. By the way: the game ends on a bunch of staggered cliffhangers, if you have a problem with that sort of thing.