Planet Bob

Phew... while the graphics were changed in this sequel, the insane difficulty level of the predecessor wasn't. So while playing over three hours tonight, I was only able to examine about one third of the first dungeon

 

I must admit that it was still fun though

Continuing after a day off, tonight I completed the first dungeon. It's right under the city where you start. In the city you also get your first two quests, which both send you into this dungeon, nothing special.

 

After that I teleported to the next city. It seems there's a dungeon underneath as well.

 

Overall it's starting to get a bit repetitive, especially when there's little to no story happening and 80% of the time are battle encounters. They are fun, but well, repetitive.

When visiting the third city tonight, I was already expecting yet another dungeon underneath

 

There's been some very tough battles in the previous dungeon which I had no chance in succeeding - my whole party got slaughtered before I even had a turn I'm not sure if I'm just too weak for these right now, or if I'm missing something essential for the moment.

Of course, cities 4 and 5 had dungeons as well. Still, within 5 days I only managed to beat the first two quests, so basically 99% of the time I spent with the game were character management and over 200 random encounters. That's fun for a while, but overall I've really been missing a good story.

 

Like with the first game of the series, I think I only scratched the surface, seeing less than a tenth of the games content. So maybe the main storyline would unfold later in the game, while I've just been stuck in an enhanced game mechanics tutorial

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see its sequel "Might & Magic III", but first it'll continue with something else.