The plot continues on from whatever the hell happened in TW1, with you playing the brother of a girl possessed by some spooky evil and held captive by some growly bloke whose face you can't see. A prison, specifically, but that's just an excuse for rocky tunnels.
The game starts, as an ancient law written by an idiot states all contemporary RPGs must, in a series of rocky tunnels. That's always going to be a bit of an event. So I carried that in my head when I stepped into the sequel, but I also carried shy hope: a game from outside the system, which like Risen or The Witcher had the earnestness and recklessness to risk doing things that a Bethesda or Bioware game probably wouldn't. It wanted so much to be epic and free and clever that I couldn't be cross with it for being cramped and fiddly and moronic. Openly ludicrous, completely incoherent and all kinds of broken yet pulsing with passion and ambition.
Two Worlds the first was a terrible, terrible game that I couldn't help but love. I don't really know what game I'm playing yet. Why I'm still fairly confused about what to say is that the Prologue and Chapter One are in quite profoundly difference. Right now, I'm in Chapter One of the game, which follows a lengthy prologue/tutorial that I'll concentrate on in this first chunk. Thought about doing a semi in-character diary, but I really want to get my head properly around this curious beast rather than risk simply lampooning it. I'll be reviewing it - if you want to call it that - in stages. As far as I can ascertain there are zero differences between the two versions, but apologies in advance if there proves to be some major change. Publisher Topware Interactive seems to have disappeared off the face of the Earth this week and haven't replied to requests for review code, but as the European edition also includes the English version I imported a copy of that, applied the three patches since launch and got cracking. Reality Pump's RPG sequel arrived in mainland Europe back in November, but won't reach the US and UK until next week.