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Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (1998)

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Original stream date: 03/07/2025

So while Turok 1 required the player to explore and find level keys to progress, they decided to add in new, seemingly mandatory objectives that the player has to complete in order to actually finish the levels. I dunno how I feel about this. I feel like the original game had enough going on with the level keys, adding mandatory objectives seems a bit much.


[ Individual level thoughts ]


"Port of Adia", the starting level, is needlessly long, and needlessly confusing, with everything kind of just looking the same. This is especially bad, as this is the introductory level and is seemingly required to access the hub, as the previously mentioned mandatory objectives must be completed to get to the hub.

This would be fine, except that they did the most annoying thing and decided to hide the mandatory objectives in weird obscure areas off of the main play route.

Since everything kind of looks the same, I end up having to play this annoying game of "have I been here, or have I not", which leads to this being a very painful introductory level. Maybe not the worst I've seen, but easily top 5.


"River of Souls" has the same problem as Port of Adia, magnified by 10. Same-y looking areas, needlessly long. This level also gets an extra point knocked off for having one of the worst hint markers I have ever seen in a videogame, leading to me being the most confused I have been trying to find progression in a while.


"The Death Marshes" was probably the level that ended up salvaging this for me. Decent layout with more unique areas compared to the previous two, a kinda cool swampy aesthetic, and the main objectives were not too hidden, so this one is my current favorite of the levels.

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0:00 - Start
1:26 - Game Start
2:35 - Port of Adia
1:51:17 - The Hub
1:52:50 - River of Souls
3:30:03 - Return to Port of Adia
3:31:28 - Return to Hub
3:32:41 - The Death Marshes
4:11:49 - Return to River of Souls
4:45:54 - Return to Hub (2)
4:46:27 - Return to Death Marshes
5:00:48 - Return to Hub (end)