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It’s absolutely worth another run-through and every penny might just help us get a third game in the next few years, which alone is worth the price of entry. If you missed this before, grab it now if you didn’t, grab it anyway. Ultimately, one of the best games of the last gen is now playable on current consoles, and that’s something to celebrate. It’s still not what you’d call a “beautiful” game, but it’s noticeably smoother and sharper than it was before.

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It’s slick and mostly free of visual glitches, and the pesky screen tear that bugged the original version is a thing of the past.

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Shipping with all the DLC, Deathinitive Edition is also optimised to 1080p with a locked framerate. It’s hardly game-breaking, but it can be tiring. Some of the loot is a bit arbitrary, and you’ll constantly pick up stuff you don’t need for ages before finally finding something worth a damn, but that’s the way these things often go. For the most part, the difficulty stays on an even keel, but a mid-game arena requires more skill and better gear of you want to win the best rewards. Gear drops from enemies and chests in the classic colour-coded fantasy RPG tiers, so you can swap out armour, gloves, boots, shoulder-pads, weapons, and amulets to increase your power. There’s also a dedicated leveling and loot system, adding an RPG sheen to proceedings. Jumping, swinging, mantling, and wall-running are the order of the day, while most puzzles are of the “pull lever, open door, roll giant ball, open gate” variety, but Death’s constantly evolving skillset means you’ll be revisiting areas regularly to mop up collectibles. The level design is superb, always intuitive and easy to navigate, and the combat is deep enough to demand that you don’t just mash buttons to win. Time is split three ways between vertical traversal reminiscent of the Prince of Persia at his best, fast-paced combo-based combat and environmental puzzle solving.

It’s all heavily bastardised though, eschewing pious posturing in favour of outright sci-fi fantasy. Armed with twin Scythes and a pistol called Redemption, the aim is to navigate a network of underworlds that borrow bits and pieces from half a dozen different religious myths, most notably Christian and Norse. You’re cast as the Grim Reaper himself, voiced by gravelly British thesp Michael Wincott, and charged to clear your brother’s name. If you did miss it, then this is essential. The people who loved it will know what I’m talking about – but what about those who missed it? Lots did, as it wasn’t overly hyped by the publisher, and the developer, Vigil, tragically closed at the same time as THQ. In fact, the only thing that really lets it down is the ending, which stops dead on an unsatisfying cliffhanger setting up a third game that never came. In almost every way possible, Darksiders II improved on the already excellent original, and it’s not much of a stretch to say it was one of last generation’s best adventure games. While the first game dealt with War’s quest to clear his name while shattering angelic spines with his enormous sword, the sequel tells the synonymous story of his brother Death, who sets out to vindicate War by reversing his cock-up. It told the story of the Horseman War, punished for inadvertently kicking off the Apocalypse and wiping out humanity. Sounds like it wouldn’t work, right? Well it did, giving us exploration and adventure to rival any of Link’s legendary sortees and combat and traversal to put Raziel to shame. This remaster is important, you see: if it makes enough money, then maybe, just maybe, Gunshot Games and Nordic will get together and make the threequel this franchise deserves.ĭarksiders was a surprise hit a few years back, giving us an almost 50-50 hybrid of The Legend of Zelda and Soul Reaver. Put the pitchforks down before you start, and hear me out. I hate to say it, but part of me really hopes that this remaster is a money-spinning cash-in.

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