Enemies in the game wear various pieces of armor sets that can be broken off by targeting specific limbs in combat. It also helps that it’s a good system, if a little grind-heavy. If you somehow forget what you need to do or accidentally skip past the help text, the tooltips that walk you through obtaining the necessary items are plastered on the walls of the starting areas for the entirety of the game.
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In fact, after the brief tutorial level, you’re basically hit over the head repeatedly to upgrade your gear, and the methods for doing so. As with the first Surge, the defining trait of The Surge 2 is obtaining armor schematics and materials to craft from enemies. More on the practical side are the improvements to the crafting system, which is far less vague than the first game. Instead of taking the role of the first game’s anemic hero Warren, players can create their own silent protagonist from the character generator, which is a nice cosmetic addition to the game. The story picks up immediately after the ending of the first game and shifts the location from an overrun factory to a downtown cityscape. In broad strokes, The Surge 2 is a brisk, densely packed metroidvania. This is a developer leaning into what it was best at while addressing major flaws from its past work.
So, it is with pleasure that I tell you that The Surge 2 is a fundamentally better game than its predecessor. It has found its niche, and is sticking to it. What it represents, though, is a fascinating look at a dev in evolution-working hard to make creative choices and fix past mistakes to become a heavyweight in a specific genre. While The Surge was a good step, it is not a great game. That game wore its heart on its sleeve to a fault, making the studio's follow-up, 2017’s The Surge, a breath of fresh air. Nobody understands this better than Deck 13, the Frankfurt-based studio that was one of the first to imitate FromSoftware with the earnest, but flawed Lords of the Fallen.
Like every beloved genre, there are the standard-bearers, and then there is the glut.
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