@aaron: colour jem guy is in the fjord. You'll see him when you have an explore on your way to one of the early quests.

had a couple of bugs yesterday. The sound has moments where it just dies. Not often, but sometimes three quarters of the sound effects and the score just vanish. Save, quit and restart usually fixes it, if it doesn't right itself in a new section.

Also had it freeze going back to an old dungeon. Reported it on the THQ forums. I could still warp to the dungeon, but there was a particular route that just froze every time. No biggie, in my case, and looking at the forums, it doesn't seem endemic, but still a touch annoying.

Have cracked on some more and opened up the next area. Still have heaps to do in the second area (and the first), but it's all good. Have some really fuck off possessed gear now.

(The other thing to note, speaking of the game being awesome and friendly, is that you can just pay 1000 gold to respec your skill tree whenever you want.)

BTW: if you get the "limited edition" - and I think every edition is "limited" at the moment, you get the code for "The crucible," which is basically the arena mode. You can't use it to level up, but every 10 waves you get more loot, and it's fantastic fun and great training for working on dealing with enemies.

@bogard: The bosses have been a lot more transparent this time, I reckon, they've all had a thing, and been quite forgiving. (bar one of the side quests, there's a boss there that's awesome, but very tough. Not because I don't know what to do, but because he actually has some nearly one hit kill moves.)

Only thing so far which is almost unforgivable are the couple of timed platforming bits. I've only seen 2 of them, and one was on a side quest, and they're short. BUT jesus christ they're shit. The controls for platforming are fine if you're not rushed, but if one mistake kills you, then it breaks down quickly. As I said though, they're few and far between, thankfully. And I certainly wouldn't say they stop me loving the game overall.

Wariospeedwagon wrote:

In fact the only things annoying me are that i’m often unsure which parts of the level i’m allowed to platform on, and that you’re not allowed to use the d-pad in menus (pet hate). 

Agreed on the d-pad thing. As far as what to platform on, it becomes pretty obvious after a while (or if you've played the first). You can run on walls with scratches. You can grab on to the wooden looking bits on ledges. You can climb that crawling vine and you can hold on to wooden poles. There's some other stuff that's context sensitive with particular items, but it'll become second nature. The game really sticks to it's rules.

I'm gonna cave in and buy it soon, I can just tell.

Yeah I'm gonna murder sleeping dogs for the trade, then do a second murdering of this to get that. There will be a lot of murdering going on, both of the games and IN the games.

Cleaning up the second major area before cracking on. There's still some stuff that I'm yet to work out. There's one new ability which I definitely haven't got yet, and there's a further one which I think may be optional. otherwise I'm slightly scared they're gonna make a couple of mistakes that they made in the first.

We'll see.

Further Pro-tip: save the Maze in the second area until you've had a good explore of the whole area and done all or most of the locales. Reason will become obvious after a while.

No, it's a little seperate one, it's named on the map. The main quest doesn't take you there. It's next to the city of the dead. Just do everything until you get out of their and then go back to it, IMO.

Getting this tonight

Gave up during the end bit but watched it on Youtube. Life is too short.

I would also like to know that.

It is very similar in regards to the structure of the game (going through dungeons, picking up new abilities, fighting bosses at the end) and it certainly retains the style. But it is so much more........epic! Everything is that little bit bigger and it has chucked in a load of new mechanics (riding the constructs has been good fun so far) and mixed it all up with some RPG elements (levelling up, unlocks, loot, side quests) but it is still unmistakenly Darksiders.

Probably, yes.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Edge have given this an

Spoiler:

6

Discuss.

'a', not 'an'

It was a joke based around the last fool who put [8] in white text on good old maroon, but the 'an' in front gave the score away.

Anyway, once you've finished laughing at my stellar wit, what the fuck is going on at Edge? First Sleeping Dogs, now this?

It's all our fault for leaving.

Really? Like the way they gave Sleeping Dogs the same but everyone who has played it has loved it?

It's all well and handy using them as a barometer but they've gone to pot on a lot of fronts recently.