My Slay The Spire 2 Trailer Reaction/Breakdown

[@mufifim]

On my grandmothers name this coming before hollow knight silksong 😭😭

[@gd6210]

I mean yeah, at those point I think silksong is more of a 2030 thing

[@mufifim]

@gd6210 maybe silksong is the friends we made along the way

[@gd6210]

@mufifim what is silksong? A miserable pile of secrets

[@dauntlesstark9850]

Silksong is dead tho? At least the devs told us STP 2 was a thing many times

[@anthonybowman3423]

@@dauntlesstark9850 Ehhh. I wouldn't say dead. Team Cherry likes to keep working on games for a long time. The only reason Hollow Knight got released when it did is because they literally ran out of all their money. Not even development money. Those boys got to the point they couldn't afford groceries before they decided to release. And then they kept working on Hollow Knight for two more years after it released and only stopped when a content expansion ballooned too big and they decided to just turn it into a new game. I don't doubt they're still working on Silksong. I also wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't come until 2040, because they have more money than God now and they aren't running out of groceries any time soon.

[@NOFORPAIN]

Maybe lore is Defect slayed the spire, and the spire has now evolved to include it's last champion into its arsenal against us. Now we must slay it to rescue the Defect from their fate! Now joined by our new robotic ally?

[@cherrylk4188]

@@NOFORPAIN in the canon, the defect is the best character, so I’m 100% on board

[@Willigant]

Maybe kinda like a don't starve situation and there are slight differences in your run depending on who won last

[@paulomatute4114]

guys I noticed something, at 37:53 the character you see on the left might be the "Ironclad" which is from the famous roguelike deckbuilder called "Slay the Spire"

[@bencecsajbok1950]

No, impossible

[@purpleshadow4391]

“Was there a single hint to the watcher” “No, and that’s awesome” Preach

[@chuck08113]

So the Fact that we start knowing there are 4 playable characters and seeing a "dead" Defect might mean we can expect more characters down the line or unlockable characters through game progression. Possibly restoring the Defect across multiple runs and encounters with the various characters.

[@CaveVenom1]

40 min breakdown poggies

[@Tidaveel]

One thing not mentioned is Doom seems to fill the bar from 0 and upwards. Maybe it's like, if Doom stacks > current Hp, enemy dies on next instance of taking damage?

[@LightBringer666]

yeah it seems like you're reducing their HP with damage and increasing doom to meet somewhere in the middle and kill them fast. love it already

[@nouvelle147]

​@@LightBringer666 That's kinda boring no? Like what's the difference between 7 damage 7 doom vs 14 damage then?

[@idiothead5511]

​@nouvelle147 doom cant be increased by vulnerable, strength, etc

[@LightBringer666]

@@nouvelle147 depends on how scaleable it is, if you can scale it up fast it'll probably be good, sort of like poison on the silent

[@nouvelle147]

@@LightBringer666 True, but as a mechanic it's no different than damage if that's the case

[@Dandy4ask]

my theory about the defect is that it didn’t die but got melded into the spire so neow couldn’t bring it back again but it still tries to help us in some way to slay the spire and maybe put it out of its misery

[@96Grayman]

have waited for this eagerly. Something about our boy Frost being genuinely excited makes me happy

[@HereComesVibee]

It looks like the backgrounds slowly transition (trans?), maybe from one act to another. You can see the walled/fortifie area (probs the docks/city from the first trailer) slowly becoming entangled in plants, and then the next act is the swarmed forest. This looks amazing honestly

[@IsabellaNelson586]

Things I would like to mention that I haven’t seen mentioned: The “Ruins” have a clear view of the night sky, and seem to flow more horizontally rather than vertically, which makes me think that it takes place on the approach to the spire, like a prologue. The jungle: That’s just it, it’s a jungle. We know that most, if not all, plants find it almost impossible to grow in the spire due to spireblight, so they must have evolved or *something has changed about the spire* No notes on the hive

[@snowsun538]

I was thinking it was a prolog as well. But I was thinking that because the character "the defect" is with the enemies. What if they are not called that because they are defective, but because they defected from the Spire to join the people attacking?

[@scoutwithamedigun4976]

Calling out the spireblight is really smart, I forgot about it

[@kurt50alien]

With the mention of modding being easier, how long we thinking until the Defect and Watcher are modded back in?

[@ferb2002]

Few days

[@masterlinktm]

@@ferb2002 Depending on how much info about the game comes out, you might even see something day of release.

[@phillystevesteak6982]

Honestly, since the balance of this one looks so similar to the first you could probably implement exact versions of the watcher and defect from the first game and it would work perfectly. It would not be very hard aside from the fact that the art style has changed from being painterly to being sharper.Cartoony look so they would have to redesign the art style to match but it shouldn't be too hard

[@phillystevesteak6982]

Then again to make them fully Animated is an entirely different story I'm not sure we'll ever see that

[@brainmaxxing1]

@@phillystevesteak6982 It looks like the enemies have way more health now though

[@coolgoose9520]

They really gave the defect the binding of isaac treatment 😢

[@blitzboy2934]

They are cooking with this one for real, I can’t wait to see what they do with my boy defect

[@AlexCamperov]

Nothing, he won't be in a game. Considering he isn't even a human

[@blitzboy2934]

@ On the official Mega Crit FaQ for the game, there is a under the question that asks if the defect will be back, and he clearly is still in the game, he just might not be playable, or have to be unlocked since his body is in the chest at the end of the trailer

[@rngsmiles3979]

I might be crazy but I suspect multiplayer. The rest site looks to comfortably fit 3 more characters. The board game has a multi player option that is surprisingly balanced. Making me wonder if you can have synergies between character as you fight stronger enemies, like the new ironclad card dealing bonus damage based on vulnerable and the silent is your duo able to stack 99 instantly.

[@pedroff_1]

They clearly have the functionality for multiple characters being at least tested with summons like Osty

[@KotikKelTuzada]

The backgrounds are clearly different one from other and I think it's a hint to variances of stages, like you have city and for example hive, and you can choose where to go after defeating boss, and each location will contain specific events, enemies or even relics!

[@hctaz]

10:07 I’m guessing this is gonna be “Kunai With Chain” if they’re making more meme references.

[@combak2712]

I’ve seen a few people say that the Necrobinder might be a dead Watcher, so they’re still in the game that way.

[@punkypony5165]

Maybe the hand is the watcher's hand?

[@hendor2885]

tl;dr the defect or its corpse are still in the spire neow is the new final boss, she's currently in charge and things haven't improved ------‐--------------------- calling it now- the defect is either dead, or imprisoned in the spire. neow took control and will be the new final boss as for why: when you beat the heart, all the characters get a few panels showing what they do. all the other characters are climbing up to the top and heading outside. the defect is the only one walking horizontaly, presumably deeper into the spire. also important to note- the defect is the only character that didn't come from outside of the spire. he's clearly connected somehow to the orb walkers and bronze automaton. he was a construct made in the spire, and malfunctioned or was corrupted by neow. the ironclad, silent and watcher are all people, they have lives outside of the spire, lives they presumably would want to get back to after defeating the heart. the defect doesn't have that- he's only purpose is the mission to destroy the heart, given by neow. so we're in the sequel, the heart was defeated and neow's presumably no longer imprisoned. neow is some sort of life/rebirth deity, so everything growing huge would make sense if she's in charge. she lost 3 if the 4 warriors she used to defeat the heart so she'll make damn sure the only one who hasn't left is going to stick around

[@azhaline565]

DEFECT-KUN NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[@kanishksyal4148]

Help I'm giggling non stop at this

[@remonssi6997]

Based on the art of the Defect in the trailer, or the way it's presented, maybe coming across the Defect is one of the events/question marks and we'll get something if we interact with the body or something.

[@Palest_]

Forget all the gross stuff the necrobinder has, the real scary stuff is the fact they're forcing us to touch grass in the game 😢

[@axelblade0013]

Blood Wall looks like notable Watcher card: Spirit Shield

[@zacharygurney3402]

Imagine if you could save/reconstruct the defect and he fights the rest of the run with you

[@ElseWhere19]

The real question is are we going to be fighting a bone version of the heart or a new final boss or perhaps the reanimated corpse of the Defect that will be interesting to see after the full release

[@brycehallisy8381]

looks like the doom debuff might be like a die at this amount of hp type thing. for instance, big louse at 16:16 has 6 doom and then dies to exact lethal as soon as its health goes below 6.

[@cherrylk4188]

Bro has completely decayed and has overgrowths of purple goo bacteria around him “Nah, we can get him back. We’ll just have to bring a data disk or something”

[@PurplePikminSupremacy]

You have to understand, we are coping so hard

[@Steely14900]

yeah it’ll be like Spamton Neo

[@ng42.]

RECONSTRUCT WHAT?

[@mekku2134]

Dude wheres the watcher😭 This lady so much fun to play there's no way she's gone like defect🥲

[@AmazingMrMe123]

I would like a balanced watcher, it would be cool to have a watcher, defect + brand new character as a DLC type dealio. But maybe that's asking for too much.

[@cany0udance]

Gonna be hard for all the top streamers to dance around the fact that they’ve been playtesting STS2 for months. (Only kind of joking)

[@Yourhatedquestion]

This was my first exposure to this trailer and I was so happy about the improved animations getting so much love

[@GDub356]

1:40 I spit laughing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@matasblazauskas5859]

11:30 D-did the Silent get Yamcha'd!?

[@HardxCorpsxKali]

6:29 “the craters gone!” No way?! Also….. it’s an entirely different area….. 😂😂😂😂

[@soheilvafaee9505]

23:32 Blood wall looks more like Watcher's Spirit Shield tbh Also i feel like the Necro Binder's soul mechanic might have to do with buffing Osty's health, cuz at one point he has 5 max health and at another he has 40

[@Ciapciaq]

Hunter Killers! The Zerg Biom Confirmed!

[@LordOfDegeneracy]

We can fix him guys…. Right

[@Ben_R4mZ]

The Defect being the final boss would go so hard.

[@AlpKagan.]

You found the book at the beginning. This is why remaining pages are edition 2. You are adjusting the info in the book

[@pedroff_1]

Yeah, it seems like the rest of the trailer is you learning not to trust that rookie book and correcting it with more advanced tactics

[@pv2]

8:46 it's a mouser from TMNT with wings

[@mushroomonpogostick]

I loved this type of deeper look at the new announcements. Was anything like this made on the neowsletters by Frost? I think that could be quite cool

[@thanhnguyenduy6306]

Slay The Spire 2 in the 2025 Games Awards, I’m calling it.

[@MrGreedylou]

the Runic Eunuch

[@Laugical]

I asked Casey if any of the characters were inspired by modded characters and he said no unfortunately 😔so the Vacant resemblance is very coincidental but also I'm glad more people saw it than just me lol.

[@poisonedoak6563]

I think that big blue blob when Iroclad casts Hellraiser is the b,lue slime

[@Snek-v2]

28:57 of course you can’t play the forgotten ritual, you forgot how to do it

[@MrHodoAstartes]

12:10 The weapon the Silent had was a kusarigama, a chain-sickle. That is 100% one of the ninja weapon set. The Necrobinder uses an enormous scythe. But that's more reaper aesthetics than combat style, since they seem to be a caster of necromancy, first and foremost.

[@Qub3rs]

April 31st?

[@scottwheler177]

Idea for doom: when the HP of the enemy is reduced to a number equal to or less than their "doom" that enemy dies. Functionally lowering the max amount of damage that needs to be delt to the character while working around attack/damage triggers (example slimes splitting at half HP) I think the symbol is a gravestone which would make sense for this kind of effect. At first thought this may sound like worse poison but in practice I think this creates some very interesting strategies based on the enemies. It would be unique in the game as the only card that let's you kill enemies without actively doing damage of some kind is judgment. I think with the right cards/flavour it could feel distinct enough from poison.

[@z0rr048]

The Defect channeled a darkness orb for too long, it consumed them in the process

[@LovelornDreamer]

The silent is my hear me out.

[@omlett6482]

i hope dead defect comes up in some way, either as a boss or some kind of secret/event

[@TunatheTitan]

Ironclad pose is a little too far shifted back with the left shoulder

[@AmazingMrMe123]

Nah he's gotta show the enemies his sexy back

[@FireLordMumf842]

is that mummified hand in a bottle and anchor in a bottle (20:20), possible previous powers in potions?

[@franslair2199]

Prediction: you will find the watcher dead in a ditch, no acknowledgement, no event, nothing

[@r.rodrigues9929]

25:16 Osteo means bones, comes from the greek "ostéon". Osteoporosis just means porous(full of holes) bones, which is what the disease does to your bones.

[@ironman02010]

Wohoo got of work early just to catch the newest Frost prime Release

[@pedroff_1]

The living statue attacking you so fast, aside from trailer paving, seems to be sort of like a weeping angel reference?

[@ibadxdlol5904]

theory: the defect had fixed themselves and is now without defects thus changing their name to something new

[@waddlehi]

Maybe this is just copium. But I think the defect will eventually become a playable character. The defect being shown off at the same time as the others and also being locked in a chest similar to when Isaac unlocks Eden in binding of isaac

[@monopolysloth7957]

KZbin’s little recap thing gave me the lovely information that: I am in the top 0.1% of viewers(by amount watched) for Frost Prime. And that I watch Frost Prime 27x as much as the average viewer

[@AvangionQ]

We predicting release dates? March 2nd.

[@ILove20PieceNuggets]

I feel like there might be some kind of infection going through the spire based on some enemies we've seen and the background even. A lot of times, you can see little "globs" on enemies or backgrounds and even on the defect, and I highly doubt that it's just the area being unclean

[@sidewinder2716]

original ironclad's stance was 1:1 Hakumen from Blazblue so they probably didn't wanna hard copy that a second time

[@razersaitama4575]

Maybe the rug will be for sale if you buy all the items on the shop

[@poisonedoak6563]

If the Defect is the final boss will we be collecting their orbs instead of keys?

[@moopynova]

looks so good I can't wait :D

[@mundomain2673]

what if the defect shed his old body and took a new form? also the green sticky note on the book in the beginning definitely has a shape resembling the new unnamed character, so they possibly wrote it...

[@BoxCox]

The fact that frost pauses the second before "covered in blood" pun ends makes my blood boil

[@Senorgato029]

One thing I can see in the card art is they seem to have taken out a lot of the mystery silhouette man from the colored cards and put the character themselves in more of the art

[@TeethbatFGC]

Be really cool to have like a side quest where we collect peices of the defect to rebuild him

[@Frodo_Sagbag]

Haircut reminder

[@mythmakroxymore1670]

This is actually pretty epic. Since neow can res people, the Spire musta caught his soul or reinvested him, ir he was corrupted by Dark orbs. Who knows?

[@blazenwolfgaming]

31:10 this reminds me of the unchained modded character

[@johnfrancis3203]

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

[@Night-xn1ks]

The animations are looking great

[@cabbageTCG]

did noone notice that at 7:10 the ironclad had life steal?? whaaat

[@benjaminbowron4281]

That was him healing 6 because the end of the fight. His start relic heals you after a fight.

[@KeyBell]

oh no, they removed the different corners for each card type, its gonna be in my head everytime i look at these card

[@denyzn6517]

Anyone know why Frost's videos stopped showing up in my recommended? I still see his shorts, but regular videos will not show anywhere unless i search directly.

[@zacharris8462]

The animations giving me adventure quest vibes, but better.

[@moodragonx2]

It really looks to me like there will be the ability to use multiple characters, or I guess more likely have multiplayer co-op. The rest site was a big one, but the other thing that jumped out to me is that so many enemies (3?) attacks are a large charge across the screen that looks like it would hit all of your characters/allies. This animation looks intentionally different from the current just sword swing, etc like animations from the current game.

[@nicowildbore5455]

Seems like with the doom they're making it so it isn't like Mark or lock on where there's only one card that you can use for that type of build which I really like. Not having a lock on card that's an orb attack in StS is a missed opportunity imo

[@paulogomes8603]

The loes and the slimes have defeated too many noobs, thats why they have grown so big fr fr

[@insomniacnerd5592]

I wanted his thoughts on the new cards so bad.

[@lilithriou4536]

Honestly I hope they go harder on the lore in this one, since in STS1 we had the recollection event and things implied via cards but not a lot else. I wanna know more about who created the defect. I wanna know about the demon the Ironclad made a deal with. I wanna know more about the Silent's tribe. I wanna know shit!!!

[@ironman02010]

Doom Sounds like something that could just kill if it reached the enemies current HP

[@tsuobachi]

Still no card tier list video yet?

[@Trevante32]

I will be so sad if defect doesnt return. Defect is my fav character so it would break my heart

[@CaptainHavana]

what if you repair the defekt and its will be the ????? char. Like its roborn

[@Destarnyan]

so The Defect was defective after all?

[@MilhousFlameblade]

My theory is the defect was a failed prototype or experiment of the ????? guy or the ????? guy is the next iteration of whatever the defect was meant to be

[@isabellagutierrez7]

Gosh i can't wait~

[@MaeIsOkay]

To be fair to Isaac Repentance fixed a lot of problems with item bloat by both adding lots of good items and buffing tons of old items that used to be bad

[@pagingdoctorsideburns]

Everyone is getting really hung up about unlocking the Defect somehow, I think the 4th character IS the Defect but somehow upgraded (my prediction is it’ll be called the Prefect)

[@punkypony5165]

Constantly misgendering the Necrobinder.. SMH. The Necrobinder is female.

[@guitearist]

IC looks like he never held a sword in his life with that swing 😅

[@wyhiobcarlile4879]

Chat when he said Mid February I thought he meant like mid as in bad am i cooked?

[@0_Body]

Guys the Watcher still in the game they just watching this time

[@GrimslyRyuzaki]

OMG, I still can't believe the Necrobinder is trans and we finally get some LGBTQIA+ representation !! I have a character I can relate to ^_^, and I LOVE the colours on Friendship bracelet !!

[@dusty_l7284]

No defect, no buy game

[@Etranck]

I think doom is how much damage the hand does to monsters, see 16:24