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Can my Darkest Dungeon 2 party please shut up for five minutesIf you don’t stop, I’m turning this stagecoach around
If you don’t stop, I’m turning this stagecoach around
The personal relationships dovetail with individual stress, and it can be far too easy to find a cascade of upset and anger which only subsides when someone gets so upset they suffer a huge amount of physical damage and reset their stress. I like to imagine they pummeled their legs with their fists like a toddler throwing a tantrum, forgetting they were holding knives, pistols, polearms, etc. The deadliest hissy fit.
See the bickering and tantrums for yourself in this battle I fought today:
Squabbling in Darkest Dungeon 2Watch on YouTube
Squabbling in Darkest Dungeon 2
“Early results are… encouraging!” says the narrator as my Grave Robber gets a kill with only my second action. In response, my Highwayman and Man-at-Arms immediately start squabbling. No! Shut up!
You can mitigate this a little. You can counteract stress and plan for rivalries, to some extent. I could’ve done better in this battle. But even when it’s a positive cascade, the interruptions are still relentless. So many pop-ups! So much shouting! All of which makes me inclined to ignore mental states because I’m just sick of them, sick of the lot of them. You could argue this is thematically consistent with the mental pressures of an eldritch apocalypse, I suppose, but I’ll still say it’s too intrusive.
Darkest Dungeon 2 only just launched into early access, mind. A lot could change. We’ll have a review at some point, not from me. Opinions? On a video game? From me? Seems unlikely.
You can get the game fromthe Epic Games Storefor £24 and alright, that is ENOUGH. Frankly, Aubrey, I don’t care who took your Game Boy. Either you settle down or I’m leaving you here with the pustulent dogs. Don’t think I won’t!
