Its starter classes are more plentiful and infinitely more meaningful, and you quickly end up dual-classing to combine passive buffs and active abilities. The tightest synergy I found was combining an amulet that boosts bleed damage with a weapon that deals bleed damage. You also only had a few accessories and three bits of armor with fairly generic set effects, so I never felt like I got a true build going. You still had traits for a light skill tree, but no true archetypes. There were 'classes,' but they're ultimately just a choice of starter weapon mod. In Remnant: From the Ashes, your build is essentially your guns. Remnant 2 hasn't so much improved the RPG elements as it has added them. It's one of my favorite RPG shooters ever, frankly. I still like Remnant: From the Ashes and would encourage you to try it, at least if you can get it on sale, but from visuals and quality of life to RPG systems and replayability, Remnant 2 is head-and-shoulders above it. That's the magic of Remnant 2.Įven the significant improvements made in The Surge 2 don't hold a candle to Remnant 2's revolution. That's partly because they're so rare, and they are so rare partly because it's hard to greenlight a sequel to anything less than a stone-cold banger. Good things are good and I'm usually happy to get more of them, but I'll always prefer the sequels that turn something decent into something great. As someone who sees, plays, and evaluates a metric ton of games, it's always exciting to see sequels that significantly improve on ideas rather than simply offering more of an already good thing. Well, OK, Lords of the Fallen 2014 was honestly a bit shit, but I'll cut it some slack here. My point is that a lot of decent games are built on ideas that deserve more, or at least could be more.
The Surge 2 is probably the best comparison for sequels I know some people actually prefer the original Nioh, and though Lords of the Fallen's reboot looks quite good, it isn't out yet to review. Maybe that's just my perception because it's the genre I can't quit, but I'd put the likes of The Surge, Nioh, and possibly Lords of the Fallen in the same camp. This happens with a lot of games, and it seems to be inordinately common among Souls-likes.
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