The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II Reviews

This game has been out for 11 years. Very early in the game, only a few hours in, there's a quest that requires to free prisoners. Well, I cleared the area after dying a million times before apparently normal difficult is hell in this game, and the quest disappeared and I can't even open any of the cells!? Went online and a bunch of people experience this, so 11 years and you haven't fixed this even though it is a known issue!? The difficulty is ridiculous. Sometimes it's fine, challenging but fun and manageable, then all of a sudden a hoard of extremely strong monsters surround you and you can't survive past two seconds. Also it's kind of just boring. I loved the first game and went into this one knowing from the reviews it wasn't going to be as good, but I did not expect this sh!tshow. Gave up on the game after 5 hours when the bug wouldn't let me continue. I'm sure if not at that point I would have given up at a later time anyway because I was not going to play a game where I had to die a million times on every other quest. At least I got it for like $2. I can accept that loss.

This game is really not bad at all(imo). Yet it feels a bit strange. There are several strange designs and such? I never played an ARPG/hack and slash game where the enemies take so long to kill? I started as hunter on hard and went ranged because ranged is always op in most games. It was a lot of running and kiting, low damage tbh, it sucked. I then saved 100 k gold and respecced to melee which is much stronger imo, better survival, better aoe, better sync on skills. So if you go hunter, my advice is to go melee definitely. I have yet not tried the other classes. I could not seem to get Katarina to tank? They always go for me, making half of my ranged auras useless, another reason to go melee. I have no idea why developers choose to make the game really begin at level 31? "Veteran mode". Also, as most ARPG games, the game becomes easier the higher level you reach, which is strange. We see this in literally all ARPG games. Take D2 LoD, especially a summoner sucks in first run and is op later on etc. You reach higher percentages on buffs etc. and the enemies never get buffed as much. So I find that some normal runs in ARPG's can be harder than the hardest difficulty mode. The level scaling is crazy in start, next area can be 2-3 levels above you, dropping gear you cannot use etc. Upgrading some skills seem pretty "bad", you will get like 1-2 more dmg but cost 20 more mana to use, not sure how the dev's designed it, but they are based on weapon damage mainly. There are many skills to pick from, you can have 6 skills, plus two basics, plus a scroll, plus rage meter which will add more effects to your skills. Again, due to the talent point system, you don't have much to spend on more than 1-2 skills anyway until later, I praise 6+ skills plus rage activate yet I lack skill points to actually do more than 2 attacks? - Most of the time. Respeccing in lower levels is crazy too due to gold costs. Doesn't increase much later on, again some design issues. Lots of jokes, easter eggs "saving private Ryan(Bryan), I will sacrifice a whole army to find him", Star Wars "Arthur"(R2D2), terminator, angry birds, Lord of the rings - lol, Davinci, Batman and such. The whole game is like an easter egg, not taking itself very seriously. Some monsters are super op like "mechanus"? They need to be nerfed. Meeting a pack of 5-6 and you easily get fried. You just run around and avoid them until dots or so will kill a few of them. Maybe that's the idea. The point in the "mission table"? Can I just skip it? Instead of wasting gold? - So far, I have zero idea about the point in it? There is a tower defence mode too, which is something new, I do like it but again the point? I don't think you even get loot or so. The achievements in this game are somewhat stupid? Why send my Katarina to sell? Why spend a lot of gold on respawn, if I don't die etc. especially for people playing hardcore? Hmm. "reach level 60 on an imported character", "get 500 PvP kills" etc. All online content should always be a choice and not forced on players. Too many people have no morale in online games, so I enjoy singleplayer games very much. That's why forced online content in a singleplayer game annoys me so much. There is not much information etc. about the game online, as if close to none plays it. I did my "learning by doing" as I always do in games. I like to find my own way, "I did it my waaaaaay!"...... Katarina is amazing btw. beautiful, sexy, nice accent etc. xD. I give the game 7,1/10 - great game for 5 euros imo. I will not recommend it if you are "casual" and don't like a challenge. If you like an harder ARPG challenge, I do recommend the game. The game is much better in level 31+. I am not done either, so I will see if more comes. Changed my score after trying senario. Did the dev's even play senarios themselves? "Find clue on map" far away, timer ticking, 1000 mobs, fire/bombs everywhere on floor, mana leeching etc. Lul just lul, this is on normal. I would like to see dev's clear a senario on hardest difficulty with 5 "debuffs" SOLO etc. Good luck guys.....Also, mana drainers need some sort of cd? Or killing wisps should return some many?

What an amazing old school RPG type Dungeon Crawler. I really thoroughly enjoyed this game. The mechanics, leveling system and combat are all great. I wish more games would aspire to be as great as these games of old...