Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24260935-20140112081234/@comment-88.230.34.76-20170225085659

I agree with you completely. After finishing the first game I just couldn't wait to get my hands on the second. Installed it that day and started playing immediately. But I should say I was rather dissappointed with the game. First of all It was too short and every portion of the main story felt rushed. The game didn't take the time to associate you with the side characters enough for you to form a sort of "brotherly" connection with them (unlike the first game where you had five chapters full of quests and side-quests and numerous dialogue scenarios to indulge. Besides that a couple of the characters that should've had a prominence in the story were absent for the most part. I never saw Roche doing anything at all save for the third chapter and rest of the blue stripes were just there for -for what exactly ? I guess they were supposed to make you feel like you were part of a group or something but I've never actually felt like that. Dandelion and Zoltan never conveyed that feeling they had in the first game and were generally absent from the story. Ves was an unlikable little shit and Triss was missing for the most part.

One other thing I generally was dissappointed in was the fact that how this game's story was just cut-out to string you along the ride to introduce new regions and places. In fact I felt like we were up for a really long journey when I first hopped aboard the ship of the Blue Stipes. But the game just took me from Temeria to Upper Aedirn and then to Loc Muinne. Of ALL the places we could've gone to, we just visited a forgotten border town off the coast of the Pontar.

The story -again- felt rushed when you consider you had no time to indulge in the politics of Temeria, a country that was just about to fall into civil war because of regicide you were blamed with. Or again when we arrived at Loc Muinne for a meeting in between the most important people in the Northern Kingdoms but somehow I only got to see a couple of important people and never felt like there was something really worth seeing going on.