I played this game and the first Risen, oh god was the first one bad... I mean, BAD! So the second one was coming out and I figured that the developers HAD to have improved on the game... right? Oh man I was wrong, so wrong.
Besides the fact that there is no naval combat in a god damned pirate themed game, lets look at the core of the game and see what's wrong with it.
1. The combat system. Oh my god, I don't think I've seen a game with a worse combat system before. The combat is impossible to enjoy. You will NOT have any degree of fun with the combat in this game. If you get hit by anything, and I mean ANYTHING, you get staggered for a couple of seconds. This is alone undermines the game in its entirety. The combat in this game ends up coming down to you trying to get the first hit in so you can stun your target before it stuns you, and even then some targets can not be stunned. There's no thought to it, no strategy, and most importantly no fun.
2. The skill system. I have not seen a more stupid design for how you learn new skills and progress your skills as well. First off, if you want to learn how to kick an enemy (and let me tell you, you WILL need to learn this skill if you want to make it anywhere in the game) you need to find someone to TEACH YOU HOW TO KICK AN ENEMY. HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? It's not enough that you need to find someone to teach you how to kick, YOU NEED TO PAY THEM OUT THE ASS! Seriously, you better save every fucking gold coin you get (assuming you play this garbage) because you're going to end up blowing it all on one skill that you need. Now, here the best part. To advance your skills, you need to pay to advance your skills. Yes, you need to pay the fucking air to advance your skills that you already have or have learned.
EDIT: Disregard my statement on having to spend gold on advancing your skills. You need gold to buy new skills, but skills you currently have are advanced using glory, a fancier name for experience. My mistake.
3. The plot. The game failed miserably to draw me in from the start, and it was there that I knew the game was not going to be good. I didn't expect it to be good, but god I didn't expect it to be fucking horrible. The plot picks up from the first Risen. There are these titans who are awakening and just in general causing bad shit to happen. Unoriginal to say the least, but they could have made it work if they really wanted to. The plot is a fucking mess. I really can't explain it you just need to play the game to see what I mean here.
tl;dr: This game is so bad it should be considered as a replacement to one of the deadly sins. I've played terrible games in my life, and for a long time I thought Deep Black: Reloaded was the absolute worse I've ever played, or that could have been released even. While that game is so bad it makes me want to vomit, Risen 2 is a fucking mess and you should stay away from it at all costs.
