Darksiders II (Deathinitive) first playthrough, part 7
2We finally return to Darksiders II, on the precipice of yet another realm to explore.
As it turns out, though, this realm has far less to it than the first two - it's mainly the tree, the overworld, one dungeon... oh and also EARTH, apparently. What the heck is that doing shoehorned into one corner of Lostlight?
And why does the game suddenly devolve into Killing Floor or Left 4 Dead 2 when we get there? The Earth portion of the game feels completely disjointed from literally everything else, to the point where there is little to no combat design - enemies just show up in periodic zerg rushes and don't drop anything, and you're constantly given projectile weaponry with which to cheese everything. I'm starting to really think this game suffered some serious feature creep... it would have felt stronger without the Earth section altogether.
Fortunately, the game quickly returns to form in the dungeon immediately thereafter. Whereas Earth reunited us with some locales and characters from the first game, the Ivory Citadel reunites us with a progression mechanic that I've been waiting to see show up for about 20 hours.
At this point I have way too many movement and attack abilities to be able to bind to button combinations; it really feels like the former should have had its own wheel to make them easier to select rather than cramming 15 things into one.
As it turns out, however, the Ivory Citadel was a wild goose chase, as we need to confront one of the toughest battles in the game yet, complete with ridiculously wide-ranging attacks and an entire phase where the boss is invincible for half of the time. I was ready to assume that was the final boss... but it couldn't be, because there is still one more key we must obtain, behind one remaining portal leading to yet another realm...
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