If you've played a Zelda game, God of War or any Western RPG, then you'll easily figure out just how the game plays. It does, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a few odd tasting things in it that detract from the overall meal. The sequel tries to establish more of a separate identity for itself, while sticking to its roots of throwing in every quirk or gimmick from other popular games into a pot, mixing it up to see if it tastes good. The original Darksiders took itself way too seriously, as if it'd be the next big franchise. It's still a very dumb story with a lot of poorly written teenage angst and the writers trying to appeal to that demographic, but it's not nearly as bad as the first game, which might as well have been writing bad poetry with black eyeliner on its box art.
The writing in Darksiders 2, while similar to the writing in the first game, comes off as far more self-aware than the previous game, knowing fully well just what sort of game it is, and embraces it. Now he must traverse a massive open world to save humanity and his brother. He tries to find a way to restore humanity by going to The Tree of Life, but things goes awry and he's transported to the world the Tree of Life is on, but not directly to the Tree.
This is admirable considering that one could easily brush this game off as another cash-in on an existing game in a franchise that is, as of now, dead in the water.įor those who didn't play Darksiders 2, the story is as follows: Death tries to save his brother War after he has been put on trial before the Council for possibly wiping out all of humanity as we know it.
While Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition does do all of these things, it also does try to differentiate itself from other remastered or updated editions of games by attempting to improve the faults its original incarnation. Whenever you see the words “Definitive Edition” thrown around, you're more than likely going to see updated graphics, releases for the current generation of consoles, and maybe all of the game's DLC thrown in there for good measure.