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So how exactly can you be more evil in Overlord II? Is clubbing baby seals to death evil enough for you? Baby seals that let off whimpering cries when they’re at death’s door? It’s evil, but somehow the game never feels nasty. These sections are stealth focussed and nicely break up the more action-oriented gameplay that dominates the rest of the game. You can also use a magic spell to possess a minion, giving you the chance to play as one of the little terrors and experience life from their pint-sized point of view. You can’t take these mounts everywhere though, with the creatures refusing to enter certain areas, forcing the minions to continue on foot – for example, wolves don’t seem too fond of caves. The first you’ll encounter are vicious wolves (you’ll come across more animals later on), which the minions will jump on and ride, making them even more deadly in fights. The early going is incredibly similar to the original game, although it’s not long before you get your first taste of something new in the shape of mounts for your minions. You can either target a creature or object and fire them off to attack or manually guide them around the environment as a pack. While the Overlord is capable of holding his own in a fight, the game is built around the minion mechanic, so you’ll generally be taking a back seat to the action and sending the little grunts out to do all the hard work. You control the Overlord like you would any character in a third-person adventure game, can hack and slash enemies with your big sword, call minions over, use evil magic and command minions to do your evil bidding.
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Anyone who’s played the original won’t find things all that different, at least at first. The first level sees you learning the ropes as a child would-be Overlord, before taking one final test once you’re all grown up. The story picks up during the time of the Roman Empire, as the minions are in search of a new master. Once again your goal is to cause all manner of chaos and evil. We wanted a sequel that upped the evil quota while retaining the fun gameplay and tone of the original, and that’s more or less what we’ve got with Overlord II. There was something quite addictive about sending groups of minions on evil rampages through lush rural villages, destroying everything in their path. While it didn’t let you be quite as evil as a real evil Overlord would be (if such a thing existed), the combination of tongue-in-cheek humour and accessible RTS-light gameplay made it well worth owning. Characters – C – They’re fine, but just choose some and stick with them for crying out loud.Overlord offered something a little different on its release in 2007.Voice – C – I still like the idea of an isekai about an evil overlord.I don’t have all the time or patience in the world here… Just choose a direction- any direction- and go there! This show seems to want to do so much that it just introduces the setup, and then jumps to something entirely different. Well, on the second season, that is still the case! Except now, instead of not getting too far into one story, we have not gotten too far into three separate stories! Talk about indecision. I said in my previous review that Overlord “didn’t get too far into the story”. The titular Overlord is just going along with everything. The common characters, supposedly the main characters in the story, are just in the background, while the focus is always on the new people. It feels like in every arc we start over with new characters. It is entirely wrapped up in this structure of “arcs” to the extent that it has barely bothered to tie them together into a coherent whole. Overlord seems to have no idea what it wants to be about. Although, from reading my previous review, the hints were apparently there from the very start. My main thought after finishing this (and after every episode, really), is “what was supposed to be the point of that?” You may notice that this is one of the biggest drops in rating I’ve had for a sequel.
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Who the fuck knows what this was supposed to be about.