The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition

8/10

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Episodic point & click in a horror lovecraftian setting. Intuitive puzzles and simple well crafted pixel art, each episode left me wanting for more. It's a direct sequel and ending to season 1, so getting the bundle with both is hugely recommended. Lenghtier playtime and bigger maps, ties up loose ends. Having an opening play before each episode was a nice touch :D

While the puzzles and story are better than the first game's, I think my favourite part of this game is the fact that it wouldn't exist if the protagonist of the first game didn't have such a good therapist.

Pretty good game! I have a similar opinion of this game as I do to the previous entry, but overall, very enjoyable point-and-click experience. I will admit, by this point in the story, I lost track of many of the character names and their relationships to each other, and it was hard to tell most of them apart visually due to the simple art style... the text colors did help, but even then, I tended to forget who was who, especially in regards to characters from the previous game who we haven't seen in a while! But thankfully, even if you lose track of individual characters, the story is still understandable when it comes to the basic plot. The areas to explore are expanded, which is good and bad. Good, because there's simply more to see and play around with visually, but bad in that there's more backtracking now between areas, and I felt as though the "world map" was kind of funny considering how few locations there actually were. The story is still a bit Lovecraft, a bit King in Yellow, but now they're mixing in some Wickerman and some Dante's Inferno. I did find some of the references to other horror media a bit exhausting at the end, but I think their actual world lore is…

7/10. My thoughts are overall positive, it was worth the money i payed for it, but I feel like I had more fun with first game for a couple reasons. 1: Bs cryptic puzzles, there are several instances in this game of 'how the hell would I know to do that?'. That I don't recall happening in the first game. Level 2 is especially bad about that. 2: episodes are inconsistent in enjoyment, i started really getting into the game on the second half of episode 2 and hit full stride and peak enjoyment episode 3(really good peak honestly), but chapter 4 petered out and was a real drag.