Remnant II Reviews

Finished this game when the final DLC dropped, and i know its been a long time since but i thought id write a simple review. This is a game that you can tell from the get go, has been carefully crafted with love and passion by gunfire. The amount of easter eggs and little secrets that you can discover in the game is also an amazing touch. I enjoyed this game so much that i knew from my very first playthrough that i will have to 100% it. To anone still unsure about getting it, do yourself a favour and give it a shot. The randomised world order, and each world having 2-3 alternate storylines and bosses, the game encourages replayability in the best way possible. And needless to say the co-op experience is also a joy to deal with. Build variety is also great, with almost every possible combination of primary, secondary, weapon mods, and melees, amulets, and rings, being viable, each in their own scenarios. Give it a shot!

Offering a challenging and varied gameplay experience. Its combination of procedural generation, cooperative play, and intense combat makes it a standout title for fans of action-adventure shooters.

One of my comfort games. Really fun puzzles, engaging fights, making builds are also really fun. A lot of content, grindy but not boring. I repeated a lot of runs, but somehow, I'm still getting new things sometimes. Always new secrets.

Terrible optimization, takes way too long to finally have the game starts... so sad because the game looks very fun, but had to refund it

I starts a little slow in terms of progression, especially if you didn't play the first one and have no idea what's going on. But, if you follow the map, look carefully everywhere you go, and build your character in a way that makes sense as you go, the game is a blast. It's not really an RPG, though there are some choices at the very end, but those choices only change what you receive, and of course there are lore implications from each choice. It's more of a souls-like looter shooter. It's light on the story, but it's serviceable, and some of the cutscenes are really good. I'd say that the most unique and appealing mechanic in this game is being able to start the campaign over at any time (called re-rolling), and you will receive a totally different play through with different areas, different bosses, and a different storyline (that revolves around the same lore, of course). The item placement and "secrets" (hidden items/skill books/armor sets, etc.) will also be randomized with each play through. It is impossible to see everything in the game in one, and probably even 2 play throughs. You can also visit each area by itself in what's called "adventure mode", so you don't have to do a whole new campaign to find what you may have missed. My first play through took 35 hours, and I spent far too long in my first area just running around, not knowing what to do to progress. I also did my best to find every secret on my own (there's no way I did in each area), break every pot (gives you "scrap", which is basically the game's currency), and tried to see every area of the map that was unexplored. I played on survivor difficulty, which is the easiest, and I gotta say that it was too easy. I never felt like I wanted to beat my head against a wall like I'm fighting Malenia for the first time. I haven't played any of the DLC's yet, but the game was so fun that I will as soon as I can. If you like the difficulty in souls-likes, I'd say start on veteran difficulty at the lowest. If you just wanted to play through the campaign 1 time to see if it's for you, survivor should be just fine. There are also 3 DLC's, which I've yet to play, but I do look forward to.

- Randomly the game has been removing talent points from my talents. - "Elite" enemies (ones that spawn with a BWONG sound) spawn WAY too frequently and i can't even tell what exactly is the trigger for it. - If an ally is standing BEHIND YOU they can still get shot if your crosshair passes over their model. Since i've only played solo so far i can only assume this happens if another player stands in the same spot. - Certain items marked as "quest items" can be used multiple times, and others can not. So when i picked up a lighthouse key that obviously had two uses for it, i assumed i could use it for both since who the hell just throws away a key that they KNOW has another use???

This game isn't as good as the first. It's not bad with friends, but it's disappointing overall. Graphically, it's pretty good, and the atmosphere isn't bad. Gameplay is fluid. The last boss is ****. I mean, really. Not because he's hard to beat, although he is artificially so. The whole way you fight him is stupid. The combat is unreadable, drawn out and visually tiring. The melee class is absolutely useless, the sniper uninteresting and rarely an asset against bosses. The game lacks fun. Nothing ever changes, except for the occasional weapon and a few blue, red and yellow stones. The game is flat, ultra-linear and soulless. In short, on a discount and with friends, why not? Otherwise, skip it.

It is advise to look at the game play before getting this game. It may not be the game you want. I have waited to commend after over a year until there is no more updates or changes to the game. If you are going to buy this game, you are much better off now then it was at release date. At least you don't have to work on re-farming stuff all over again. This game is not an easy fun fill or enjoyable game play. You'll learn and search for a good build to stand a fighting chance. Lots of dodging in the fight if your amour isn't good enough. Skill trees (Traits) and the new Prism requires good knowledge on how to get a good build to fight in Apocalypse difficulty. Your build determine how strong you are but it may require you to complete the end game to acquire better Amulets. Rings, Guns, etc. The basic Amulets, Rings, etc, requires very strong skills. That is to say, if you are good in this type of game, you'll have less problems. Survival Difficulty is now better if you start from the beginning. The new Prism is a very poor design. If you Reset/Cleanse the Prism, you loose all your work on your Prism. You'll have to restart farming all over again. Basically as Marcus of Borderlands says, "No Refunds!". This Prism should have a reset without the lost of experience/farming work. The Developer should allow the Prism to keep the leveling up without wiping out every thing off. That way, you don't have to waste time level up each and every Prism just to get lucky. The way the game is made, it's design to be very hard to fight without dying multiple time until you get lucky. The Hardcore setting is the toughest of all. No chances of survival as you are very weak from the start. That's even worst if you have hearing issues or hard of hearing. The game rely on sounds to avoid getting hit. If you really want to try this game especially on Hardcore, try the Save Editor or Save Guardian. You can load it up the last save point if you failed. Because in Hardcore, if you die, it's the end and you'll have to delete and create a new Hardcore again. I have not yet successfully had any luck with Hardcore as I don't use any Editor/Save Guardian. Enemies are way over powered in Hardcore. (Hardcore have very good Amulets, Rings, etc.) A time consuming farming game, unless you don't mind the time consuming process. Additional Negatives: 1. Network Connection. In Co-Op we get loads of disconnection. 2. Co-Op Menu. No Online Co-Op menu. All build into the game play. Each time disconnect or Kick or Banned, you get thrown back the the in-game to activate on-line Menu. 3. At times, you get very toxic host that will ban or kick you immediately even before the game starts. (Even if the Host is open to Public). Was getting lots at the very early release. 4. Getting kick or ban if you are trying to get a Amulet or Ring or something or even trying to help the Host. 5. Very poor design sharing of quest that the Host may not intent to give away a Amulet or Ring. Especially the Morrow Sanatorium Strange Web. Giving away an Item should not impede the Host. 6. Too many secrets are hidden until you do a internet search. You go Opps!!! It's gone! 7. No farming of Bosses, have to re-roll the game multiples times in order for each item. Example, Kill Red Prince 5 times (I Think). 8. If the farming failed, you have to re-roll again. Example, One True King for the Amulet. 9. Re-roll 3 times for a Trinity Cross-bow. One time for each Trinity Momento. 10. Boss Run. Not worth the time farming. Better to integrate into the base game and DLCs for leveling up. Over 500 Boss kills is way too much. Better to skip the number of Boss kills just to gain more Prisms. The Developer should remove the Boss kill counts and improve faster leveling up. 11. Boss Run: Can't join when Host is in Game. 12. Current Co-Op Menu: The Map Shown on screen may not be the actual map. 13. Co-Op Pains: 1. Unable to know who the Host. 2. Unable to know Host Quest/Mission objects. The Host Kick or Ban (always) you when you find the quest/mission objectives or Host intentions. Even if you are just helping. 3. Co-Ops are toxic, not helping gamers for hunting items like Rings/Amulets, etc. You do your own hunt by yourself. Host will never help you. Don't even know why they are hosting in Public Co-Op if they are not interested, I guess they get the enjoyment of kicking and banning. Absolutely no patient at all. 14. Summons - Flying Summons always blocking your shooting directions. Not gonna mention others annoyances. 15. Prism - Need to include counters for leveling up. To see how many Boss kills are needed. 16. Concoctions/Consumables - Very limited use due to time limits. Can't use when in a big fight, must get to a safe zone to use. Practically very useless should be removed. 17. Chat Message - No Chat message - thanks to Positiveinflux mention which I forgot.

I didn't play the first game, but I had so much fun with this one. With its DLCs, it's a fantastic game. There's no in-game chat system, yet you can still communicate with people in some way. The most impressive part? The in-game books subtly reveal everything—no matter how complex the stories are. Whether you burn everything down or go in guns blazing, the class-building system is really well done. I’ll be eagerly waiting for Remnant 3—because this series is absolutely worth playing!

Remnant 2 is a solid soulslike with guns. Great classes, mechanics and all with an ever-changing world. Top notch game. 10/10. Definitely worth playing. One major enormous downside: The game has a serious bug on all platforms which can suddenly without warning corrupt all your save data, making you lose your progress, items, everything... Or just some of it. It can even completely break the game so all characters you create will be unable to progress at all, so you cannot even start over. It is random and the developers have done nothing that I know of to fix it, even though the problem has been persisting for a long time and is pretty widespread at this point. I myself know two people IRL who had their entire games wiped. It even happened to both of them while I was playing with them, but somehow I myself was not affected. This bug has been in the game for more than a year without getting fixed. I would argue that Arc Games is breaking the law by selling a product that does not work as advertised. So... seriously fuck those guys to the max. But... if not for the bug which completely ruins the game, it would be a perfect game. Remnant 2 is a good game, but just know that there is a ticking data-wipe timebomb in the game which can go off at 1 hour or 100. So enjoy the game while it lasts. If the devs get their shit together and fix that very serious bug (serious enough that I would argue players are legible for monetary compensation from the studio) the game would be absolutely stunning and perfect. I am off to play Helldivers 2 until Arc Games get their shit together with this one... EDIT: It seems that buying the game from either Steam or Epic Games Store, linking your Epic Games account with your Steam account and then running the game from the Epic Games launcher while having both Steam and Epic clients open at the same time fixes the issue. Why does this work? Reasons. However this is something that my friends and I figured out on our own, and not something recommended by Arc. And if you play on PS5... Too bad, you are out of luck. Also... this is just something which we figured out through days of trial and error and I can only say that thus far none of our games have broken. It may just be luck, but so far this fix seems to work. Sidenote: if you apply the method above, you have to be friends with people both on Steam and Epic to be able to see each other in the game. Otherwise the launcher used will determine who of your friends you can see. Yes this is very stupidly designed, and I was also very surprised by it. I can recommend finding your game files and making a backup on a REMOTE DRIVE (not in the game folder. One of my friends did a backup in the same folder and the backup was corrupted as well). That way if the game data gets corrupted, you can restore it manually from the time point at which you created the backup at least.