Perhaps Stephen Weyte would do an equally impressive voicework. I doubt anyone can picture the game without his immaculate voice. I’d even buy Twitter Blue if he was the one selling it to me. As with last time, the impeccable voice narration by Wayne June is the highlight of the story. You only get a few snippets of lore between each act. There’s not much storytelling this time around. The world might be ending, but humanity will not go without a fight. It’s up to you and your band of 4 ‘unusual suspects’ to fan the flames of hope and eradicate the evil nesting atop the mountain. The Academic, who takes the place of the Ancestor, gives you a small flame of hope to fit atop your stagecoach. While its predecessor was about hopelessness and the sins of the fathers, this time it’s about rekindling hope and atoning for the past. The game follows the ending of the first game, and the world has gone from “on the brink of ruin” to a “full-on apocalypse”. The change in direction is evident in the story itself. I’ve seen people online calling the game ‘Darkest Road Trip’ and it isn’t too far from the truth. It’s basically Darkest Dungeon meets The Oregon Trail.

Aside from retaining the combat and character fundamentals, Darkest Dungeon 2 essentially feels like a new game, or at least a spin-off. We’ve come to love the punishing difficulty, unfair RNG, and tiresome grind it provides. Darkest Dungeon is comfort food to many, including myself. No one would fault them, even if they did. From the moment you boot up the game, it becomes apparent that Red Hook Studios doesn’t want to retread the same road and make Darkest Dungeon 1.5. Darkest Dungeon 2, now out of Early Access, is no doubt going to be polarizing among the fanbase.

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