Creepy Tale 2

I gave this game a thumbs down, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game, just that I wouldn't recommend it. It has a lot of good stuff going for it; it's probably more my personal tastes as to the thumbs down.. The art style, visuals, music, and dialgue were good; they definitely have that Eastern European/Grimm feel to them. The puzzles and achievements were the letdown for me. The puzzles were challenging, which isn't necessarily a bad thing as a lot of them could be worked out, but a bunch were "How was I meant to work that out?" or "What would lead me to that?" even after learning the answer. The achievements were the same. I got < 50% though random things during the playthrough and the rest I'd have no idea what to do. Thank goodness for walkthroughs and guides to get me through and enable me to 100% it. That's ultimately the reason for the thumbs down. Needing a little help from time to time is fine, but I felt I had to consult guides/walkthrough too frequently, and I can't recommend a game I feel I need to be guided through as often. Admittedly, this could just be a me issue, but I feel perhaps reflects on the game too.

Recommended. A dark Slavic folklore-horror sequel that upgrades everything (voice acting, richer art, triple the length) while keeping the wordless picture-book discipline, sending a boy through an autumn forest of possessed girls and flesh-eating butterflies. The puzzles reward real observation (shape-side counting for a chest lock, candle notes on a piano, stained-glass wave directions), the living-water idol system builds a bridge out of servants' own bodies, and poison brewing by leaf-colour rune matching is a highlight. The morbidity (a witch's child-recipe cookbook, living cocoons) never numbs. The chapter-three swamp-hiding gauntlet soft-locks wrong hiding choices into restarts, the diary's decorative font renders its Rs as Zs, the first game's jump is gone, and both ending cutscenes are extremely short. The decisive upgrade that makes its predecessor look like a test run.

Boring. Also, CT2 commits many a capital sin that ancient good devs had expunged long ago. Thus there is no save menu, replaced with unprofessionally deficient checkpoints. Thus controls are not Point n' Click, often demanding pocket phone gestures. Thus there are no good puzzles. only Moon logic flops, backtracking abuse, or combinations with poor visibility (or none at all when the clue is audio only.) But, mostly, it's boring, which is enough to be recommended against. The poorly told story and its gratuitous cruelty routine aren't entertaining. Not to mention how distracting the consistently poor voice acting is. The nonsensical puzzles and chores aren't entertaining, There will be no CT3 for me.

It's the experience from the game that counts the most, and the whole series (I've played 1,2 and 3 so far) has satisfied me in full. Catching story, beatiful drawings, good and interesting puzzles, invigorating action parts. I enjoyed the play from the beginning till the end, and I'm looking forward to playing other Creepy Brothers' games I've already bought.

Overall, I enjoyed the game. It has a creepy atmosphere and beautiful visuals. I usually avoid using guides when playing games, but here either I'm just dumb or some of the puzzles are way too obscure, so I ended up having to Google the solutions quite often.

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