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"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
I spent 5 hours and played through Force Unleashed II on hard. Wow, that was a short game. Not only short, but short. The original game had, by my account, 6 or 7 locations- this one has 3. Perhaps a little more time is spent at each location- but I don't think so.
Regardless of what you think of the story of the first game, this story is really quite weak.
There isn't really any innovation in gameplay- just a few new moves added to the set. QTE events are much simpler... which is fine other than it means you're just watching a QTE without having to push any buttons. I'd rather still have to do something rather than just watch.
The enemies are repeats from the first game, with a few new (3 or 4) ones for good measure.
The boss battles are all new, and the "I'm falling and using my force powers" segment is used to good effect three times in the game.
There's a much stronger "Prequel" setting to this game (2 of the 3 settings are prequel related), which was a turnoff for me. Though both of those settings really are beautiful and Cato Nemoidia was really well done.
Probably most offensive, they really trashed the "character leveling/progression" bit. Instead of working towards a new level for your character where you'll get some tokens to develope several different kind of abilities, debuffs, and characteristics- you just get points for everything you do and you can use the points to level up 6 different characteristics. I appreciate that they didn't take the common sequel route- "Look at all of those upgrades you got in the first game! You ROCK! Oops... nevermind- looks like you lost them and you'll have to start over. Sorry 'bout that. :(" but they even had the perfect set-up since you don't play "the same character" from the first game anyhow.
The Holocrons aren't really hidden (for the most part) and unlock other upgrades- like health, force 'mana', and new costume and lightsabre parts.
HOWEVER-
Despite all of that, I quite enjoyed it. You might be wondering how, based on the above. Yeah, me too. I'm playing through it again, on "Unleashed" difficulty. In the first game, playing on the hardest difficulty meant starting over without any of your upgrades and having to work twice as hard to get each one. This time, it's new game plus and it might be a tinge easier than hard was, since you are mostly upgraded when you start "unleashed".
Had this been a $20 expansion to the first game, I think people would have been over the moon with it. Since it was a full $60 sequel (or at least, was sold as such) I still can't help but be disappointed by it. But since I only paid $15 for it at Blockbuster... I am still mostly happy with it.
And speaking of expansions , the Endor DLC for this game (I paid 80 MS points for it and I think that's still the price) is the best part of the game. Continuing on (I think) from the end of the DLC from the first game, you have already defeated Obi-Wan on Tatooine and Luke on Hoth and now you have tracked the flailing Rebellion to Endor. You're dropped off near the Rebel's stolen Shuttle and make your way through the Ewok village and chase the rebels to the shield generator. There you have to face down Han and Chewie and then chase after the princess who is setting charges.
Something about this level really worked for me and I think it might have been playing the bad guy again. (Or it was the OT setting) In this level, you are the Darth Vader that never was. You are young, you are fast, you are full of fire and destruction. You are the sole representation of the Empire on Endor and the rebels about crap their pants when they hear you are coming. And rightfully so, since you wipe them out. All of them.
I guess this is maybe what Maul was supposed to be? He came across as too much of a cartoon for me to ever really consider him to be a true threat. Sure, he fought off 2 Jedi at once. Did he ever trash an entire legion of his enemies? Maybe he did in a book somewhere. It's too bad. The Prequels should have had someone like this in them.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
I'm trying to figure out how to answer the question posed in the thread title.
"No, thank you" is actually the correct answer, Fink.