Kona II: Brume Reviews

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Liked the first one, loved this.

Even better than the first one

I was a fan of the original Kona game. Unfortunately, Kona II Brume doesn't live up to its predecessor. At all. Starting with technicals, it just keeps on crashing at location changes or when loading saves. One has to reduce the display resolution to barely readable, load the save, and revert the resolution to the original. The user interface seems to be designed exclusively for consoles. Cannot proceed with a mouse click, only by pressing E key??? List/journal navigation and selection only by keyboard??? Etc. The game itself is made dumber by highlihting interactive objects. Compared to the freedom of threading the snow in Kona (almost) anywhere, Brume limits even outdoors trips to linear walks in a tube. Real freedom is seldom given to the player. Some shameful barriers are simply ridiculous. Stopped by a door despite having both a hatchet and guns? No way to dismantle a barricade? Anyone going for the badges, a walkthrough is a MUST. Because taking a photo a step away won't get in the journal. There are only a few games I didn't finish. It's one of them. I might get the patience sometime. But it takes patience and endurance instead of enjoying it.

This game is a let down for me because I can't complete it. It crashes every single time I go to leach lake. I've tried fully minimum settings, the different 'fixes' that has been posted, nothing works. I can run much more graphically demanding games without a single issue and my pc is not that old. It's a shame because this game was fun so far but how that crash hasn't been fixed when it's affected a lot of people is annoying. What a shame.

It was overall better than the first game, cant say too much, it is a bit to handle id say where it felt like there was a lot of mechanics that are dry or not used at all. I appreciate the not so cheesy investigation. The charm is still there, cannot say i have ever played a game similar. The lab SUCKS poo poo doo doo. I like the first games narrator more than this one. All in all? Dont play the first game, just play this one.

Thank you to all involved in producing Kona 2. It provided a satisfactory conclusion to Kona 1 ending. Both Kona 1&2 give the full detailed story of the Kona world. I loved the story of the Kona world, and enjoyed the game play of both games immensely.