Darksiders 2 Retrospective

[@Whitelight]

Happy to see any content on this game. This video was great. Nice intro too.

[@RTXWorld-m2h]

Your video is great too I hope I will watch it after I complete the game

[@Hynotama]

Oh, hey there!... one year later. I loved your video too. Really awesome analysis.

[@MagicSpartan1992]

Your video on Darksiders 2 was really darn great. Yours and this one I tend to go back to :D

[@operator7209]

Your video is great as well as his

[@operator7209]

Do you think you might be able to do Darksiders 3 or genesis or even 1

[@user-se3jc9pz1q]

the loot system in this game was truly well done, with some weapons allowing you to feed others to improve their power. this was true sense of progression

[@futurebat67]

Darksiders was an epic adventure to me which I was looking for and I loved the story. Darksiders 2 simply amazing. The story, the game play, the stage design, even the voice actings are surprisingly fun and captivating. Playing my second play through in my PS5 after stumbling upon this video.

[@angelorael6186]

Best part of darksiders 2 was the beginning. The boss the music the voice acting. Flawless

[@simla5]

Darksiders 2 is a definitive Darksiders experience and I'm still so pissed why they throw it all away for another souls clone, just fucking why? I hope they make things right in the fourth game and we'll get a great Darksiders again, because Darksiders 2 is one of my favorite games ever!

[@Hynotama]

Don't you mean DEATHinitive? Also yes, Darksiders 3 was a slap in the face. It shouldn't have been a souls bootleg. And there's actually a lot more wrong with it. Fury is REALLY annoying. The music... just isn't there. The story should have moved on instead of milking the apocalypse. The environments were... well not too bad, but nowhere near as good as they were in Darksiders 2. Darksiders 3 was an embarrassment. I almost quit the series because of it.

[@simla5]

@@Hynotama Well I don't hate the third game. Yes, I have many issues with it and from now on it's always gonna be the black sheep of the series, but the game itself is fun. The problem is it's a terrible Darksiders game, the story especially is just really bad - one giant fetch quest with barely any world building and ending minutes after it pick ups? Ughhhh... But at least we got Genesis.

[@Hynotama]

@@simla5 I didn't actually play Genesis yet. I tried a pirated copy for a bit and I like the Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light vibes. I bought it on Steam a few days ago, but I'm waiting for some furniture to set up my new computer before playing it with max settings. With Genesis, I wish they would allow us to choose the second horseman instead of forcing War down our throats. But at least we don't have to stomach Fury again.

[@simla5]

@@Hynotama Well actually you can play Genesis either in 2 player co-op or switch between War and Strife whenever you want.

[@melancholyman369]

To this day I replay Darksiders2 and still get angry how they fuqed this golden formula up for bloody trends.😒 All they had to do was refine it

[@raresmacovei8382]

While Darksiders 2 is a great game overall (and a bit iffy on the technical side), it will boggle my mind forever the game had a budget of 80 million $ on last-gen when Witcher 3 had a budget of 87 million $ budget on current-gen.

[@badreedinedjellali1328]

ya me to I'm experiencing a lot of this things in this game

[@haydndalton]

Darksiders 2 budget was less than half the budget mentioned here.

[@hasanelrabih283]

According to Google, it's $50 million

[@MATHSWORLD8325]

It surprises me how I never made the connection between the lantern statue and the vigil games logo.

[@freshboy3968]

Me neither 😱

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

The unarguable truth about Darksiders II: THE MUSIC FUCKING SLAPS!!!

[@arsalansyed123]

I loved this video. Darksiders 2 is also my most favorite one in the series and the soundtrack is just phenomenal while Darksiders 1 and 3 soundtracks were forgettable. I'm still playing Darksiders 2 to this day it's just that good. :)

[@andrewmah2962]

I like Darksiders 2 over the rest

[@PinoyMagicianVlogz]

I’m playing it rn on ps4. Darksiders 2 and Genesis are my favs

[@simla5]

I personally like all the soundtracks and think they're all great. Even though Darksiders 2 is best of the bunch for sure - also Genesis has got fantastic soundtrack as well!

[@darkange911]

everything about this game feels like it should have been 5x more popular

[@MagicSpartan1992]

I freaking love this game. I mean it’s super video gamey But it’s just what I need it to be :)

[@pipper4747]

Darksiders 2 is a forgotten masterpiece. The amount of epicness in this game is insane. The visual style, character and environment designs, voice acting, story, dialogues and that incredible soundtrack!! It has fantastic atmosphere, it constantly surprises and never looses its grip and it has so many absolutely epic moments. There is just no other game like it. And you play as Death! Its the only game where even such thing as opening a door is epic. Sure its not perfect, but I sill love this game so much.

[@Deoxys_Used_Mimic]

I’m about to listen to the Darksiders 3 video, but about Death’s sacrifice... Remember Darksiders 1’s ending and the ending quote of Darksiders 2’s trailer? “DEATH LIVES” Shoutout to the Crowfather. “There will always be... *four.*

[@badreedinedjellali1328]

so this is why I feel the enimes where hard because I didn't upgrade may weapons i didn't know how to upgrade your weapons

[@jasonmnosaj]

Really great review buddy! I am honestly hyped about the third game.

[@renegadeguy2340]

Otherwise though, your video was pretty damn good. I've been binging everything on your channel since I found you a few days ago. Keep it up!

[@mash9537]

Darksiders 2 is one of my favorite games. A truly underrated masterpiece. I don't think they could of picked a better voice actor to play death. Also one of the best soundtracks.

[@justjamminjazzy]

I could not figure out the puzzle where you have to place portals behind that glass thing, but I ended up finding a bug in the physics engine to pass it, which was just so much fun to mess with

[@bearwooden660]

My favorite of the series! Although love all 3 of them. Keep them going !

[@BossStar1995]

I love this game, but just one part of the game ruins it for me.

[@OSgaming93]

@@BossStar1995 i know what u're talking about, i played a year a go, then i completely stopped due to said part, and got back to finish the game two weeks ago.

[@Amonimus]

Very ominous title screen... with a pun.

[@plum0uttatime56]

Thank you so much for making this! I got these games at a generously discounted price and I’m really looking forward to playing them now XD If I’m feeling up to it, maybe I’ll make a play through 😙

[@roadside360]

I got a copy of this game with my Xbox 360 and didn't even know about the franchise at the time (given the fact that I lived in rural Nevada and we couldn't afford wifi). This was the game that got me introduced to the series and I remember loving my time with the game (although when I did that initial play-through, I was very bad at games and had a hard time on Easy Mode). Now I have the Deathinitive Edition along with the Warmastered Edition of Darksiders. I actually think it's better than what I remembered on my first play-through back when I was 12 since I've now played enough games to know how to appreciate a good story. Especially when there's as much lore as the Darksiders series has to offer. This is also the first game I've beaten without the help of a friend so of course it would hold a special place in my heart as one of the best action games with rpg elements that I've ever played.

[@bloodlustquartet6234]

Something important about the Earth section: You can put the cannon fown and just play the section normally. It is not a shooting gallery, it's just an area with a lot of cannons.

[@samjuan4899]

KZbin finally recommended a good channel to watch. I've watched 4 of your reviews now and while I didn't agree in some of your points, I did enjoy watching them. Gonna binge-watch the other videos after this.

[@Hynotama]

When I was watching the Diablo 4 cutscenes on KZbin, all I could think about was how Death screamed at his version of Lilith. Can you imagine someone from Sanctuary screaming like that at the Daughter of Hatred? Death is so badass!

[@Ron_Junkman]

But Liam, there are four horsemen, and only three games. You know what to do.

[@kaiserauthoria]

Points to Gensis uwoh~

[@justjamminjazzy]

Still waiting for Strife to have his own game

[@MagicSpartan1992]

I actually like the gun more this time around because you can get lots of shots in out all at once, kinda making it a wild card. And with the right abilities and gear, you can make it so that shots fired at enemies restore some of your Wrath. So it becomes this thing you incentivize to use more powerful moves more often.

[@Deadforge]

All o the games are great snd continued ti be different as they always wanted too. Darksoders 2 is definitely the best game. I love all of them. Darksiders 3 has the best world building and seamless world in the series. The amount of detail is insane in 3 and I lived the boss battles plus I'm a souls fan and this game has very light souls combat not even remotely as difficult.

[@BugsyFoga]

Still can't believe Darksiders 3 is just around the corner😁👌

[@Hiro_515]

That game was crap

[@thecrimsonpool]

i wish they cut out the earth sequence and made the ending better, great dlc and overall great underrated game though

[@8bitcoffee364]

Once i get some money i will deffinetly get both darksiders games . Thank you for your amazing review.

[@operator7209]

I hope you might do Darksiders Genesis even if you might not have much to say about it

[@Lord_Deimos]

DS2 is one of the best games of the 10's and the soundtrack is nothing less than beautiful.

[@Omnicharlizard]

Does anyone know of a game that has a system similar to the possessed weapons? My favourite builds were: scythes strength, crit damage crit chance arcane Gauntlets; health and wrath steal arcane crit damage arcane chance xD

[@freshboy3968]

Uhh, Nioh? Kinda? Like you can upgrade/forge a weapon by sacrificing other weapons for it, BUT... Compared to D2, Nioh's loot system gives *horrid anxiety* to many

[@AndrewMaksym]

Thank you for not being like some other reviewers and s&*$ing all over this game, just because it's characters are unusual and there's lots of God of war/zelda style puzzles. Albeit I understand these games coulda been a little bit better made, but they don't deserve to be thrown into the trash.

[@scrustle]

Another great video! On the topic of the way the worlds are structured, I was kind of disappointed that the latter worlds were so much smaller than the earlier ones. It doesn't ruin the game or anything, but it felt like you could see a pretty obvious point during development where they realised they bit off more than they could chew and had to massively downsize half the game. What was there is still really fun, but it makes the game feel a bit front-loaded. Although I'm not sure the game's pacing would really be able to stand up to two (or three, but I don't consider Earth a world in its own right, it's just a dungeon) extra full size worlds. It would have been better if they were able to spread out the same amount of content that the game already has more evenly between all the worlds. But of course hindsight is 20/20. I think the DLC dungeons actually help to remedy that problem a bit though. They place them at very good points during the Deathinitive Edition, helping to break out the later parts of the game. They're also easily some of the best dungeons in the game. Belial also makes up for the final boss not being too great to a certain degree too.

[@BossStar1995]

The only thing that makes me dislike this game is that one part in the City of the Dead that feels impossible to do most of the time.

[@lidular]

I hope we will get a darksiders 4 that is more like 2 and less like 3

[@bloodmancer4824]

Despite having 2 new darksiders games, 2 is still my favourite out of all of them.

[@badreedinedjellali1328]

I think darksiders 2 is better than darksiders 3 because in darksideris 2 you can buy armors and the is 4 deffrent world it's cool that you can visit earth in darksideris 3 but darksiders 2 have a lot of world's to explore

[@Mangomesh]

Great video, it sounds like Darksiders 2 is a more mature game than its predecessor? I remember playing the first game and finding the voice acting to be... Not great, if you don't mind me saying. I'm thinking of buying Darksiders II, it kinda reminds me of Legacy of Kain. I never finished Darksiders 1 as my PS3 died long ago, but maybe this game will reignite my interest in the series?

[@hanibalking7841]

Game was buggy af on launch. Still a good game. I go back to it now and the.

[@freshboy3968]

I remember my 2nd New Game playthrough, during the first dungeon's first wallrun the game would just crash. Ah, sovl~

[@pepepenasalme9241]

You can say all you want about the Arbiter's maze. But you or anyone here will deny that this is the only section of the game that has the best camera position for combat. Which just makes me think, why couldn't every matchup in the game (especially the Crucible) look like this?

[@spardathedevil7956]

Random loot and potions were clearly inspired by DIABLO, not DORK SOULS. Geez, people did you play something outside soulslike?!

[@negx3933]

For me, this was it. This was peak Darksiders, followed by the first game.

[@Mordewolt]

>blank menu screen You mention that, but didn't mention Vulgrim's "Your journey so far:..."

[@Angel-xp2df]

The crowfathers

[@freshboy3968]

I FACKING LOVE THIS GAAAME

[@562.anthony2]

FUCK YEA YOU DID DARKSIDERSSSS

[@FyoCoutch187]

Dude i didnt even know their was a darksiders 3 till like 2 days ago when I started replaying the series. I really liked these gsmes too idk how it slipped past me. I wonder if its becsuse its shit? If you played it Lmk if its even worth getting.

[@badreedinedjellali1328]

me to I' only playd darksideris 2

[@asteck113]

GENESIS REVIEW PLEASE

[@clydepate2785]

Liam Triforce isnt it stated in the epilogue that he some how survived from the line "and the riders of the horsemen, shall ever be, four."

[@zangetsu5221]

The breaking of the 7th seal summons all 4 horseman to the end war. Even dead ones. War was dead when uriel broke the 7th seal, and he came back. Same happened with death.

[@nopunksalive8902]

never even heard of a "udraw"

[@Yondras]

I was so hyped back then, I pre-ordered the collector edition. Loved the art style, the soundtrack, the atmosphere. But I won't lie, I found the game quite boring after a while. The loot system is interesting at first but you end up getting so much stuff, I spent too much time in my inventory for my taste. I just ignored it at some point. The dungeons were sometimes too long and not very challenging, especially in the land of the deads. My biggest disappointment being the storyline, sidequests and the two last worlds. Heaven and hell are so important for the plot, and yet you spend a minimal amount of time dealing with angels and demons. And the ending, gosh. Had some good moments with the game, I will surely remember it's universe, but also the sour taste of wasted potential. They did their best to release a finished product despite being on a sinking ship, and that's admirable. I lost hope for the franchise with the third game.

[@Adnan-si9wq]

got both 1 & 2 for free on epic games

[@voiavictor]

I tried to find the deal but sadly it costs money now...

[@metroidprime3863]

Hot take Darksiders 2 better than Witcher 3 and Elden Ring.

[@freshboy3968]

+2! +2!

[@merrickb3096]

Vulgrim>>>Fury

[@monstergelo1072]

so darksiders 3 when?

[@LiamTriforce]

Working on it. I'll have a video out within the next week

[@Nigel222]

I despised the loot. Was unnecessary tedium.

[@theexile4694]

I find the game a complete disappointment. I am playing it right after playing the 1st and I see the 1st game as vastly superior. It blows my mind people claim DS2 has all this depth and what not but, in reality it's even more watered down than the first game. The loot system was terrible, the ui to deal with the loot was terrible, the dungeons were not as memorable and were very easy, the locations were forgettable, the music while great often times is out of place or just is going for a different theme over what the game's aesthetic is going for, etc. About the only system that was slightly improved was the combat system and even then I feel like that system just isn't as challenging or good as the 1st game's.

[@MTweedC4]

I dont know man ... there a lot in this video that just seems ... 'wrong'

[@ShehrozeAmeen]

WHY DIDN'T YOU MAKE SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS COMPARISONS?! Both games have obvious influences from that game! Come on!

[@TheClarity101]

Lilith wasn’t killed

[@iWillWakeYouUp]

Good video. We need more exposure of this franchise. I hope so much they can make a proper sequel with Death or War one day. Darksiders Genesis is nice and all, but I want a proper Darksiders sequel with one of those two horsemen. I don't particularly care about Fury (at least the way DrS3 portrayed her), and Strife has lost much of his coolness when I heard his ghetto-style voice acting. Phil La Marr is a talented man, I'm sure he could do something much cooler with it if only they wouldn't push him in this direction. Hearing a Horseman of the Apocalypse talk like some ghetto thug is jarring to say the least.

[@TheClarity101]

iWillWakeYouUp strife doesn’t even sound ghetto

[@ahbeef]

more like dark soulers am i right gamers

[@renegadeguy2340]

I don't understand the praise this game gets. It just felt like such a slog, with boring dungeons and puzzles that were super repetitive and an awful and completely unnecessary loot system. The first game was no masterpiece, but at least it was fun to upgrade war and his weapons instead of picking up hundreds of trashy items that you either just sell or throw into your possessed weapons that don't hold their worth either. And the dungeons didn't treat the rule of three as a law that had to be followed without any regard for necessity or fun. It felt dragged out and far too long for the variety and quality the game mainly had to offer.

[@meziembamara4004]

😸 Who else playing *Wii U* Version in 2024 ?

[@ThePreciseClimber]

I have to disagree with the statement that Jesper Kyd's music fits every location. The music in the Drenchfort and the Ivory Citadel feels completely out of place. It's like the devs told him the basic concept of those locations but they forgot to mention the fact those places are CORRUPTED. IN RUINS. FULL OF EVIL BLACK GOO. The music of such places should NOT be soothing! It makes no sense and is very distracting. Also Kyd definitely botched cutscene music. He's always been lazy with that. Usually he just keeps the generic BGM playing.

[@LiamTriforce]

I am offended on Jesper's behalf. I am going to personally write a letter defending his music because he is infallible as a composer >:( Jokes aside, I never even considered that. I made sure to explain why I thought the music worked in the Drenchfort and I'll stand by that. That entire dungeon left a huge impact on me. But I understand why you'd feel that way about the Ivory Citadel. This all makes sense.

[@badreedinedjellali1328]

I like the music in this game but I think the boss music with war didn't really fit the boss fight

[@badreedinedjellali1328]

I like the music in this game but I think the boss music with war didn't really fit the boss fight

[@livchamps9573]

Ah yes, "Go Get These Three Things: The Game"

[@merogic]

So true lol. It tired me out a lot midway through the game and felt like I was being thrown around :p

[@fitzviandraduivenab2790]

@@merogic and the best thing is, Death also felt that way

[@Hynotama]

Please don’t compare Darksiders 2 with Dork Souls. Dark Souls is a cheap piece of trash with a boring “story” and protagonist. Darksiders 2 is absolutely brilliant. It’s beautiful, interesting, epic and it’s a joy to play. Also there’s no dragon in Darksiders 2. If you’re referring to the Eternal Throne, it’s basically a giant castle-like structure that is dragged across the skies of the Dead Kingdom by two leviathans.

[@sdsdfdu4437]

Dark Souls is great my dude, what are you smoking I like both series'

[@Hynotama]

@@sdsdfdu4437 dork souls is trash and the fact that Darksiders 3 was a souls clone was a betrayal to the fans.

[@sdsdfdu4437]

@@Hynotama *dark Also its great, maybe you're just bad at video games

[@Hynotama]

@@sdsdfdu4437 ah yes... the tired old "git gud" non-argument. Well I have gotten good for games that are actually good.