I'm a bit disappointed so far
Does it gets any better?
I'm a bit disappointed so far
Juan Morgan
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Ryder King
Come oooonnnn
I want to talk about la mulana 2
Let's talk about an actual videogame
Tell me what you think about la mulana 2
Camden Cruz
I liked it. There's a couple things I had some gripes with, like the overuse of looking up mantras for puzzles and the final area being an obvious rush job. But I feel it was a bit better than 1 overall. The controls are tighter and the hints are distributed in a much better fashion. Though maybe cutting out La-Mulana 1's flaws would be it's biggest flaw.
Christian Hughes
How far are you in?
James Edwards
I backed it, I couldn't call it a bad game but I was disappointed in it. Too much combat despite the combat still being the least interesting part of the game. If I remember correctly there was some hidden dev room in the freeware version of La-Mulana that said there were originally planned to be more enemies around but they toned it down because it's actually really irritating to have to contend with hordes of enemies while backtracking around a big ruin dealing with cryptic puzzles. I wish they remembered that when making the Eternal Prison.
Jeremiah Jenkins
I finished the first area and got the first skull and was extremely disappointed by how easy and dull the boss was
Then I realized I had like 3 different places I could continue exploring so I turned it off for the evening after getting mad at those pitfall traps that seems to be fucking everywhere
Anthony Morris
The first zone is just the tutorial. You'll go back to being hopelessly lost and confused shortly, just like in the first game.
Carter Morales
La-mulana 2 has no postgame right? Also spoilers:
is there anything to do in the escape sequence other than saving the queen and fighting the goddesses?
Aiden Adams
It actually took me a while to figure out I had to whip out the statues because I'm an idiot
Jose Cox
There's no Hell Temple like La-Mulana 1 sadly. We never reached the stretch goal for it. There's unused music in the game for what was assumed to be this game's Hell Temple, but it'll probably never happen.
La-Mulana 2 randomizer exists though. So there's that.
Parker Gonzalez
It gets better by the third area imo. Really enjoyed the game, had some really creative bosses too, but the finale felt lackluster and anticlimactic compared to the first game.
>spoiler
As far as I know, that's all you can do.
Dominic Flores
It's just 1 again and honestly it's not as good. Disappointing.
Ryder Jones
This should be comparing her to Lemeza instead. I mean, come on. Mulbruk doesn't even remember who he is.
Jordan Walker
>Though maybe cutting out La-Mulana 1's flaws would be it's biggest flaw.
How so?
Lucas Evans
I think the most memorable aspect of La-Mulana is how completely lacks any sort of handholding. The game world is almost entirely open from the start, and hints are spread haphazardly around forcing the player to explore lots of different areas instead of focusing in one zone and then moving on. The parts we remember the most are the ones we got stuck at, and there really just aren't as many of those parts in 2.
Though I don't think anyone would have welcomed "Take a knee: Part 2" either.
Elijah Morris
>Lemeza saves Mulbruk from the crumbling ruins of La-Mulana.
>She can't even remember his name and thinks he smells bad.
Being Lemeza is suffering.
Austin Scott
>Lemeza saves Mulbruk from the crumbling ruins of La-Mulana.
Isn't it more of the other way around though?
Ryder King
You kinda missed the boat, the discussions were constant and great for about a month after launch. I miss it, in all likelihood there will never be another game like this ever again.
Ian Johnson
I backed it and I respect it, but I never finished it. Playing through the first game was enough, I guess I never really wanted more.
Brandon Myers
>La-Mulana 2 randomizer
fucking hell, how does that even work?
Nathan Sullivan
It was my GOTY 2018. I can forgive it's shortcomings and the horrible game breaking glitches introduced in pretty much every update. This is the sort of niche style game that feels like it was made just for me, and I'll be lucky if I find another game that makes me feel that way for the rest of my life.
Robert Lewis
>Take a knee: Part 2
I would have taken that over a mistranslation that omits the solution to an otherwise easy puzzle.
Well, either way she couldn't leave the ruins till the Mother was destroyed, so he deserves some credit there.
Gavin Perez
Exactly like you expect, everything is everywhere else. Even mantras can be shuffled into the item pool. There's probably not as much possible variety here as the La-Mulana 1 randomizer, since you absolutely need the shurikens and the first sigil to exit the first area, but it's just what you'd expect from any other randomizer.
Aaron Gomez
It was my GOTY too, which was no mean feat since I loved Hitman 2. I feel the same way about it, I had such a wonderful time with it and it depresses me to think that I might never see another game like it.
Austin Ward
I thought it was perfect in difficulty. I thought the first one was too hard.
That being said, I gave up when I got to the Eternal Prison section and haven't played it in over a year. Still, the 40ish hours I put in I thought was well worth the time spent.
Liam Smith
Nigoro, where's my physical copies?
Aaron Gomez
>making maps and taking notes
>helping anons and getting help from other anons
Those threads on release were great.
Carson Johnson
It's threads like those that made me realize: Yea Forums only sucks because video games do.
Jonathan Taylor
I still have that humongous map of the entire game some guy made, shits awesome.
Adam Bennett
don't bully Mulbruk.
Jeremiah Evans
Those were truly the best threads on Yea Forums in 2018 for me too, I remember being the first one to find some of the hidden software and immediately go to the thread to tell everyone about it (in spoiler of course) lol
James King
>tfw when you lock the corridors and kill heimdall
Made me melancholy, thinking the game was drawing to a close.
Finding Sakit was the saddest part though.
Justin Wilson
I wonder what it would have been like if the other playable characters weren't scrapped.
Xavier Murphy
I've been playing hard mode randomizer runs, and holy shitting christ, the enemy placement later on is fucking infuriating. Some screens in Ancient Chaos have almost 20 enemies.
For those looking for the LM2 randomizer, here it is. You won't find it on the "big list" of randomizers.
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Liam Wright
>sakit
I felt sad at first too, but after watching the cutscene I was laughing like an idiot.
Kayden Williams
I think this is why I liked 2 more than 1. I played 1 after it had been it forever like plenty of others but got to join in on the figuring stuff out threads this time around. It was the most fun I had with a videogame that year.
Henry Stewart
That bit's really funny when you watch it, but then you notice he's well and truly dead afterwards, yeah it's what he wanted, but it's still sad. Especially since you learn that he was tricked into causing the civil war, meaning all of his millennia of suffering weren't really justified.
Caleb Morris
It was like being a kid again, talking with friends about secrets in games.
Justin Brown
Fuck this Zhulong in particular.
Michael Cruz
Ancient Chaos was such a pain in the ass, reminded me of the Chamber of Birth.
Kayden Sanchez
Couldn't you just reload any time you find a skull so that the difficulty never scales up?
Mason Evans
A friend and I played it when it first came out, and it was really fun. If either of us got stuck for too long, we'd share notes. There were things I just didn't notice, like the statue above the chest containing the Dinosaur Statue. We'd eventually check Yea Forums if we were both stuck for a while.
Liam Wood
Didn't they change it so it's based on more than just skulls?
Will definitely do that from now on if that is not the case.
BTW, this game has an absolutely killer soundtrack. I prefer the arrangement of LM1's tracks, but its instruments sound kind of... bland. Almost like they're MIDIs or something.
LM2, on the other hand, has plenty of songs with parts that sound like actual accordions or electric guitars.
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Jacob Walker
wait, so that's why suddenly there were a lot more enemies on every screen?
Eternal prison was hell to me, It took me a week to figure out how to reach that area's boss. Hardest part of the game in my opinion.
Adam Lewis
>Didn't they change it so it's based on more than just skulls?
No idea, I haven't played the game since I beat it, which I think was just after the first patch.
Nathan Rogers
I'm pretty sure Eternal Prison is intended to be the hardest part of the game by far. That's kind of the point, it's a god damn nightmare, but man is it satisfying when you finally finish it.
Cooper Smith
I think it's based on number of bosses killed too now. Hel has a different scaling mechanism for some reason. Her boss fight has a different number of phases depending on how long you take to reach it.
Alexander Nguyen
In the first game, I dreaded doing all the mantras at the end. This game's equivalent of that is the Trial of the Seven Gates. It's always hard to get myself to play through that part, even though I've mostly memorized it by now.
Kayden Cruz
>Ancient Chaos was such a pain in the ass
>Navigating the Ancient Chaos for the first while having the maximum amount of skulls you could get at that point WITHOUT knowing what they do.
My first run was fucking hell because of this.
Justin Reyes
>she sees your wallet
Parker Young
>I'm pretty sure Eternal Prison is intended to be the hardest part of the game by far
It's a tie between that and finding the path to the cog for me.
Jace Jackson
Zachary Williams
Path to the cog is a really neat idea, but I wish the game had hinted somehow that the pictures associated with the various children were important. I feel like that puzzle could be the highlight of the game, but instead it just feels like "how the fuck was I supposed to notice that?"
William Martin
Where is this?
Eli Clark
The mouth of the dragon.
The shape of the map corresponds to the pictures associated with each race of children.
Look at the picture associated with tablets of the first children
Carter Long
I've been watching HiddenDistance's playthrough (a top LM1 speedrunner), and he was so close to solving it a few times, but it was seeing Brahma's map that finally made him go check the grail tablets, then realize the dragon was the Taka Shrine, and then he finally went to the room to try the mantras.
Elijah Stewart
Lincoln Collins
Can someone explain to me
how the fuck do I get that guy to show up in Mulbruk's tent?