Jimmykiller456 Shadow Warrior 2 Review
Jul 4, 2026
*These Are Just Notes Taken While I Played The Game*
The Good: This game has improved their weapon variety in this game are very good and nothing felt too similar to another. There was always a new weapon every other mission and good progression in between them so one doesn’t feel to OP and carries you through the game. Another improvement from the first game is the powers. In this game chi powers work a lot better and are explained better as well. I remember the first game healing was something I struggled to do as I couldn’t remember the combo to do to heal. Nor in the first game how recharging the power meter worked. This game introduces side missions and bounty hunting missions which as a good level of extra side content to do that have good rewards if you decide to to do them.
The Bad: This game has so funny voice acting. It seemed bad but like on purpose. For me it kinda threw me off a bit but could be fine with other gamers. The level sets in this game are very much re-used and abused. You will be revisiting the main 3-5 level sets over and over again especially if you are doing of the side content. This kinda for me seems little lazy on my end but could have been a limit in the budget for this game. I will say there are some good Enemy variety especially with the bosses. Here’s the BUT part of this regular enemies are Re-used a lot and there is slight variations usually by a elemental type or a bigger version of them. The story for me I was left feeling a bit confused and lost. I am not sure if its because its been awhile since i played the first game but I felt like the story was rushing/jumping ahead of itself before it could fully flesh out the main goal of the story.
The Ugly: Now, I had two bugs happen while playing. Randomly the game would not register my bullets/swinging of swords on enemies even tho I am aiming directly at them. This other bug I have experienced 4-5 times which is getting stuck between rocks or buildings and thankfully the game seems to have a unstuck feature where the character will phase through those objects if I get stuck for 5-10 seconds of trying to get out.
IMO: In my opinion this game is fun and a major upgrade from the first game. Its a nice silly game where you can relax and murder bunch of demons and robots and be a awesome psycho ninja. This game I had fun an never really got bored with it during my time playing this game. Always kept me engaged and focused. I am looking forward to playing the 3rd game and seeing how the 1uped this game. All in all this game is a 4/5 for me and a game worth you time and money. I would recommend a sale of any event that is above 40%.
Thanks for reading my ted talk!
CachyOS
13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900KF 3.00 GHz
32.0 GB RAM
ASUS TUF RTX 4090
