![]() Choosing Fighter or Battle Mage or Alchemist determines your health and energy ratio as well as a specific trait or ability. In Grimrock 2 classes no longer limit your skills anyone can put points into any of the 16 skills. Thankfully the new class system offers much more flexibility. Like the first game, the difficulty on Normal can be brutally punishing, both in its gleeful willfulness to maim or outright kill you for wandering into a trap, and that most monsters will wipe the floor with you if you try to stand toe to toe with them. ![]() You’ll want to create a balanced party in order to survive on the island. Some traits can only be chosen by certain races (only insectoids can have Chitin Armor) while most give incremental improvements to defense, attack or attributes, and it’s a nice way to further specialize each hero. Each race has specific traits that make them better for certain classes – insectoids have increased willpower, minotaurs are all about strength and vitality, but this time you can also assign up to two traits for each character. The character and skill systems should be familiar to fans of the first game, and the fantastical races of minotaur, insectoid and lizardmen (as well as boring old humans) return, with the new addition of the ratling (who also act as a common new enemy type). All the denizens of the island, including lots of new foes as well as some familiar faces (yes those terrifying spiders are back, and there’s a dungeon full of ’em) follow the same square moving rules, and your approach to the ‘square dancing’ method of combat as either an important part of the gameplay or exploitative will still likely determine your overall enjoyment of the combat. ![]() ![]() You navigate the world one square at a time picking up items and weapons, searching for secret buttons and treasure chests and solving a myriad of puzzles. Many of the core gameplay mechanics remain the same from the original. Legend of Grimrock 2 still begins with a four person party of prisoners, only instead of being cast into a hellish dungeon, your ship crash lands into the mysterious island of Nex, home to a robed figure known as the Island Master, as well as a host of monsters and Grimrock’s intriguing brand of devious puzzles. ![]()
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