Greedfall 2: The Dying World Reviews
Greedfall: The Dying World nails its characters and lore, but uneven pacing, repetitive combat, and constant glitches keep it from living up to its potential.
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Review in German | Read full review
GreedFall: The Dying World is a game that built upon the potential of its predecessor, and in many ways, it succeeded in this. They created a game that many RPG fans have been aching for: storytelling, choices, and world. Unfortunately, the tactical experience, while good, was lacking in finesse. The game spent 18 months in early access, and I believe it was time well spent, on PC. The console experience had much to be desired, but nothing a few patches can’t fix, I hope.
GreedFall: The Dying World had a rather difficult task. Not only did it have to build on the strengths of the first chapter released in 2019, but it also had to be a test of maturity for the Spiders development team, which has historically been torn between heart and compromise. The ambition is clear: an even bigger RPG packed with content, with strong themes and difficult choices for the player. However, where aspiration gave way to risk was in revolutionizing the popular combat system, abandoning the action setting in favor of real-time turn-based combat. This is a choice that did not fully convince us and which, we suspect, could alienate some of the audience that loved its predecessor. The end result is therefore not far removed from the software house's tradition, partly due to a technical aspect that is harsh at times, an overly uneven pace, and combat that is not as polished as one might have expected.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The more I played Greedfall 2, the more I loved it. And no small amount of that is due to how much it made me feel like I was playing Neverwinter Nights all over again. Which made me realise just how much I’d missed that classical gameplay style. That Greedfall 2 made me feel like that all over again about classic CRPG gameplay is no small praise indeed.
Greedfall 2: The Dying World makes an attempt to be a swashbuckling, seafaring pirate thriller, but gets muddled in its own politics and bogged down by too many clashing systems.
GreedFall: The Dying World offers a large and fascinating world to explore and some fantastic roleplaying flexibility, but it constantly trips over itself through its own clunky combat, uneven performance, and difficulty spikes. I can’t say it’s a bad game at all because I did enjoy it, but as someone who had a really good time with the action-orientated setup of its predecessor, I just can’t help feeling a little bit underwhelmed – especially with so many better RPGs to play right now.
A promising world undone by numerous crashes, broken quests, and laborious combat.
Despite some drawbacks, I'm glad I've spent time with Greedfall 2 and do recommend this for fans of these kinds of games. I think they'll get their fun from Greedfall 2, for certain.
GreedFall: The Dying World is not a bad RPG, but it’s a gigantic disappointment. It’s too much of a deviation from what made the first GreedFall feel like a breath of fresh air, with a ton of questionable design decisions, often feeling unnecessary or pointless. The new (and overly punitive) combat system won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, and the story takes ages to become tolerable. Not to mention an irritating amount of bugs constantly annoying you and breaking your immersion.
Greedfall: The Dying World was not my first choice for Spiders to return to, but I’m glad they did. This does feel like a better overall package than the first game, even if I would have preferred they refined and enhanced the original game’s combat instead of tearing it down and appealing to those who passed on the original game entirely, possibly pushing fans of the original to the side.
Greedfall 2: The Dying World shows potential with its beautiful world and fresh perspective, but is currently a disaster due to a weak story, emotionless characters, poor combat, numerous bugs, and technical issues that Spiders must address during Early Access.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
GreedFall II is a pretty nice game in terms of concept. It all means well, but the game is not quite there in terms of execution, sometimes even far from it. Audiovisually it is quite weak and in terms of gameplay it all feels quite mediocre. It is clear that the ambitions were greater than the result. If you had exaggerated a little less with the inventory system, the dialogue system and all those other RPG elements and had focused a little more on the gameplay and quality, the game would have been a little more accessible and it would have looked a little more professional. Unfortunately, this did not result in the result that every RPG lover had hoped for. The intention was good, in terms of content you have mountains of possibilities and quests, but the result is unfortunately a reasonable disappointment.
Review in Dutch | Read full review