Avis sur Mary Skelter 2

Mary Skelter 2 : Good points: -Good characters design and personalities. -The story is dark and interresting and the ending is worth it. -Good gameplay, its simple to understand and building your characters isnt that hard to comprehend. The level design is ok for a dungeon crawler, you have some easy puzzles and you'll need to use some characters specific skills to build a path toprogress through dungeons. -Two games in one with a good price, you can expect close to 100 hours if you want to complete both of them Bad points: -Become repetitive after the mid-game : close to no characters progression "RPG-wise", a lot of skills are bad imo and the story is slow paced. -Exploration rewards and quest rewards are terrible : the equipment are always bad upgrades specially if you use the bloodfarm system. I suggest to completly skip the quests uneless you're doing the achievements, they're not worth your time and some of them are time consuming because of the RNG involves in them. Dont be like me and explore everything, its not worth it. Near the end of the game i looked for the dungeons maps online and just rush through the levels. -Some dungeons are confusing and too large. -Devolution is useless and not necessary, you dont need it to finish the game on normal and the xp gain are so low that its not worth it. The amount of grinding seems insane to make it worth. -Like every IFI games there is a ton of "slice of life" VN parts, its not for everyone, the problem i have with them is there are too much of them at the same time unless you bactrack during your dungeon exploration to put a "break" between them. -Low effort port : the resolution is low since they didnt upscale it from the switch version and unless you played it in "windows mode/low resolution + Reshade for example" it's very blurry. I have only one crash in 70hours so no problem for me. Overall score : 6/10 Mary Skelter Nightmares "remake" : Good points: Overall the same points as the second game. Some comparaisons between the games : -Story was better paced than the second game imo, the "slice of life" dialogues are shorter too. -The maps layout was better and shorter too and less like a labyrinth. -The game have better balance job-wise overall (magic feels better on this game). I did a team with one of each archetype and finish it just fine. Devolution is a "must do" in the endgame dungeon compared to 2, it's fast to re-lvl-up. Bad points : -Only 5 people in a team instead of 6 and we dont have the new skills/class from the second game. -The game is way harder compared to 2 in Normal for the first 4 chapters, Nightmares hits like a truck. There is something wrong with the difficulty curve. -Lots of weapons types are quite bad. Every weapon with a malus on AGI is a hard pass in this game because AGI is one of the best stat in the game, it makes your turn come faster and you can finish most random battles in 1 turn thanks to this stat. -The "Order" sidequests aren't rewarding and are boring to do. -The port isnt that great, same reasons as the second game. Overall score : 6.5/10