Another week has come and gone, and I have not yet finished Darksiders 2. I have made progress, and have just arrived in Lostlight, but the end of the game is still not in evidence. Perhaps after I shake up all these angels a little bit…
So that brings me to this week’s post. In lieu of a new game finished, I will talk a little about a game I have finished in the past. The first Darksiders seems suitable, given the circumstances.
I don’t really know what I expected from the game when I first started playing it, but it became apparent pretty quickly that I was playing some kind of God of War/Legend of Zelda hybrid. Fast paced, flashy, visceral combat… dungeons connected by an overworld map, each with a new piece of equipment and a boss that — shock and awe — required the use of the item I just found to defeat.
Now, I’m not knocking it. Darksiders was fun, and I recommend it to just about anyone. You can do much worse than Darksiders if you’ve got a few hours to kill.
As for the story, I found it an interesting spin on the whole apocalypse mythology, with War charging from on high only to find that the apocalypse wasn’t really happening, and being punished for that transgression. Doubly interesting is that Darksiders 2 is neither a sequel nor a prequel, occuring entirely within a subset of the first game’s timeline (…an inquel, perhaps?)
Check it out.
I had originally planned to play something older in my backlog before I started in on a new game, but the allure of Darksiders 2 was just too strong. Like PROTOTYPE before it this is another series where I played and enjoyed the first game a great deal. If you’re looking for a new Zelda game to play you can certainly do worse than Darksiders. 😉
Well, it’s Monday again, my playthrough of Prototype 2 has begun, although I haven’t made much progress yet. My weekend was occupied mostly with seeing friends, and what time I had aside from that ended up with me fiddling around with a Ubuntu/Win7 dual boot on my PC which flubbed its GRUB install and rendered my system briefly unable to boot. 😛
Just wrapped up the single player campaign in Sniper Elite V2. Nowhere near “complete”, as there are a great deal of unfound nazi gold bars and unbroken bottles. Nevertheless, it is done and I can move on!