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Don't you ever compare Elder Scrolls to this again.

8((((

I had only played the NES game a small bit (i.e. I never even beat the first level) before playing Rearmed, and I got used to the controls and nuances pretty quickly. I've been goofing around with Rearmed 2 for a while now, and I'm pretty sure that I can confidently say they're worse... And I'm saying that from the point of view of someone who had the original Rearmed being something almost entirely new to them (I've finished the original on Super Hard, from scratch, twice, and I've also finished all the challenge rooms twice).

1. You can no longer press "down" to detach from a swing. Instead, down reels you out. This is basically a safety measure for newer players who weren't skilled enough to drop and reattach.

2. Holding "forward" while swinging no longer detaches you from a swing. Another safety measure for less-skilled players that seriously messes with the flow of swinging.

3. You now have to hold forward to keep swinging back and forth, otherwise you stop swinging where you are. Yet another safety measure for unskilled players who made a stupid mistake.

4. The "B" button now detaches a swing and makes you use your arm - this drives me nuts, because I have to push more buttons to detach. In the original, tapping down or just holding forward at the end of a swing effected how you would come off the swing and was much more convenient. Swinging is now much less fluid.

In the original, if I wanted to drop directly down while in the middle of a swing, I could reel in and then just press down. Now, I have to reel in, WAIT to stop swinging because of the new retracting rule, and then press down, which severely slows me down. I now also have to do excessive button presses to chain swings together. The whole game is considerably less fluid than it used to be because of these new mechanics, and they're all very obviously put in there just to make the game more accessible to people who complained about the original being too difficult.

If I want to move like a snail, these changes are all just fine. I can still get from Point A to Point B. However, the fluidity of the original and the speed at which you could go through is now gone. They've changed the level design to have tons of backtracking, too (not just for bonus items, but also with annoying switch pulling, etc.), and you've lost any sense of real fun there was to zooming through the levels. The challenge rooms are less fun now, too, feeling much clunky because of the new control scheme - they feel less like they require skill and more like you're solving a boring puzzle game.

I feel like I've acclimated to the controls about as much as I'm going to, and I don't see the game getting considerably better. Right now, it's really disappointing (and an insult that it's $5 more than the original). Maybe after I've beaten it and know all the ins and outs, it'll be a little better... but I'm just extremely dissatisfied. They did the worst thing they could possibly do to the series, which is make it utterly boring. I have to convince myself to keep playing it.

Edit:

UGHHHH. I completely forgot, and this is important -

5. The bionic arm button no longer reeling you in also makes vertically climbing up more of a pain, as waiting for the d-pad to reel you in again makes things more cumbersome.

Edit Again:

Up button reeling me and down button reeling me out are screwing me up so much that I can't even begin to freaking explain it. It's absurd how many times I accidentally press them while trying to swing left or right. Good thing it's mandatory I HAVE TO PRESS LEFT OR RIGHT WHILE SWINGING just to keep the swing moving, too!

I hate these new controls. I hate them so much.

So far, I've got to agree with most of what justin is saying, rather disappointingly :/

The swinging mechanics have also changed to be more methodical and less skill intensive - the biggest change about this that bothers me is that can no longer immediately drop down and reattach by pressing the "down" button and no longer detach while making a swing forward by holding forward.

I really have no idea how I feel about it becoming open-world. It could be really good, or it could be really bad. What I worry about most is that if they keep the old method of finding co-op (or even pvp) games in, that it might be excessively difficult to get a game with a friend going.

Crap, it's 1200 points? I'm sure it's worth it, I was just hoping for another deal, like the original. I'll probably be picking this up tomorrow

I did a "from scratch" hard mode run on DS1 before playing DS2 and didn't have any trouble, and this was not having played it since around when it came out.

And, no, if I'm remembering correctly, you couldn't NG+ into impossible (I know I didn't). I beat impossible just using the plasma cutter, too. The checkpoints were too generous to make the game difficult if you knew what weapons to use and how to conserve your crap.

You basically had to to beat it, the game is a second job.

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((((I only beat the GBA game and barely played the REAL DEAL))))


I was young and foolish! To think, during the one point in my life where I'd play something as boring as a grid-based SRPG, that I would waste it on that.