Yeahhhh..... I'm with Alchemist on this one. He never really claimed anything you have said, especially since he was emphatic that he *personally* didnt think it was good.

I mean, I dont agree with his opinion, the game was great and I am super happy that the sequel is happening, but he is right not bringing up anything you claimed he had.

Nooooooo!

I want to be surprised by Bayonetta"s booty showing up in the Nintendo presentation with a September 2021 written on it.

Yeah, super stocked about this game!

The first game was a big surprise, both in terms on how it came to be and its quality.

So seeing a sequel makes me so happy. Especially since they really do seem that they are going to be way more ambitious with it. I see an original villain, which makes me excited for an improved and more interesting story. The exploration seems to have been expanded too, since you dont fight in the field no more, but is teleported to a separate place, which makes me wonder that they will dedicate the "world map" exclusively to exploration and everything in between.

There are a few nitpicks that I ddint like, such as the cursor floating around, kind of blocking the view, and the color of the marker of your walking reach being a bland gray, but since this is a 2022 game, guess they are still fixing those things.

Maaaaaan, its not event Nintendo's turn yet and they are already nailing it.

The game got an 85 in Metacritic, not only that but the talk in the aftermath was that it was surprising the game turned out to be that great, though of course many were careful to use more reserved words like decent and discreet. In the end, there is a wide range of opinions.

But thinking about it now, I lean more towards your thoughts regarding the game, it's one I wouldn't really want to play again, and there wasn't anything striking I would write home about. However, I wouldn't be so harsh in calling it bland and boring. Bland, I don't think it isn't, it's got some nice art and the humorous undertone is fair enough. Boring, well, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it, not enough to beat the endgame content and download the DLC, but I felt well served. 

Now that I think about it, I was kind of hoping that Ubi would bump up the number of characters in battle to 4, which would make the battles feel very different, but thats not a big deal.

I thought the first game was pretty good, but I've never been a fan of the Rabbids as characters. This game looks phenomenal so far, and a LOT different than the original. It really looks like they've expanded on it tremendously, and I'm excited to see what more they do with it. I'm a big fan of tactical strategy games, and the first one set a good foundation even if some of the level design toward the end wasn't as good. This definitely looks even better!

Yea the way I worded that part of my comment was not particularly good. What I meant wasn't that I don't see anyone talk about how good/great the game is. Moreso that the merit of how good or great it is is almost always prefaced with how surprising it was that it wasn't bad. And in a way maybe that's why the game left me cold, I wasn't surprised that it had its merits. I wasn't really super skeptical of the project to be honest, which probably left me with no feeling of surprise or reassurance once I actually played the game. 

Today I learned that plot is not the same as story. My life is up side down now.

Grant Kirkhope is doing the music again!

Excellent! The first game had a great soundtrack.