Admittedly I never played the first one, but you don't really need to. This is an adventure game in the quaintest of forms. You play as Zoe... most of the time... and most of the time she's in her underpants which makes gameplay a bit distracting. Ignoring such things you quickly find that there is a lot here to enjoy: great story, acting, and puzzles. You start to care about the characters which to me is the essence of great story telling. I only had a few gripes mainly it was too short. Just as you feel like the story is going to kick into gear and perhaps take on a new level of depth it ends quite disappointingly. It was if the story tellers said to themselves "okay the worlds are kind of safe but we don't know how to get the main character out of a situation... lets just quickly end it and make it a cliffhanger... no one will hate that." I appreciate a good cliffhanger heck Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars did them well... but this one just feels unpolished. My final complaint would have to be one I might be all alone one and that is the graphics. Those didn't feel finished to me and the view, as in most 3rd person adventures like KOTOR I & II, feel overly confining. There comes a point when a view makes a person feel claustrophobic and these type of games do this very well. Other then these two minor complaints this game delivers a solid adventure a bit too short to be called the longest one.
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