Path of Exile 2 short review

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Naharez#3496 が発言:

From a gameplay point of voiew, it's just not as good as its predecessor. So why would you pay money for it?

There are things that are better, mainly the graphics and sound/music. Presentation is awesome. But as soon as you played the game a bit you realize a lack of depth and also some weird choices in design philosophy. It's almost like the game tries to be many things at once, an evolution from the previous iteration towards something new and better, but then on the way loses part of what made the first game great.

For example, in PoE 1 when you fight a boss, what decides who is victorious is mainly your stats, items and not much else. The game consists of going to an enemy, clicking on it and seeing your build do its work. Path of Exile 2 tries to be different in a way that you can now move with WASD keys to dodge out of attacks and use a dodge roll as well. So boss encounters are designed to make you use these mechanics. The focus then shifts more towards a gameplay that sometimes feels more like a top-down shooter, but becomes tedious at times, because there are two worlds colliding, the build optimization and "lean back and watch the statistics do their thing" and the top-down shooter elements. And to be honest, they don't mix very well in this game. That is probably because the game isn't polished, yet. Maybe one day this game could be great, if they work on making these systems fit together better, but right now I am mostly just annoyed by having to dodge roll out of every second boss attack. I don't really want to use the dodge roll at all, but the game is designed so that you have to. Path of Exile 1 also has more content, deeper systems and frankly a much better skill tree, gem and item system.

So if you like presentation, graphics and sound design, you are welcome to try this one. For 30 bucks, this is still a good product. Entertains you more and better than going to the movies, I think.

But in comparison to the first game, it is still far away from being a reasonable choice.