Howdy there partners, Papa Diaper just thought of a great idea for a review session. Instead of playing a game, and sharing my opinions after playing it, why not play it and share my opinions while doing so. Still there? Good! Today’s review game is called Overlord II, and from what I played until now, it seems like a fun, cartoon-ish like game, in which you take control of an “overlord”, and a group of minions. I just finished watching the cinematic, and I kinda like what I see. Those minions seem really clumsy, and their actions appear to be somewhat funny.
Attention: Spoilers up ahead!
So, the game starts with the Overlord inside a gave, being guided by his minions that keep screaming “Follow, Follow”, just like a pack of kids that are using Twitter, trying to get some “chicks” to follow them. Back to our sheep! I’m in the game for more then 50 seconds, and I can say that the graphics are fairly decent, the sound is great and the voice acting is funny as hell. Seems that my first mission is to walk over a bridge, but wait! It’s blocked! How in the world can I actually get passed those barrels? Hm.. wait just a second! Maybe this giant axe of mine may come in handy! To be honest, at first I wanted to hit my minnions from that wooden board so I could walk over it, but that didn’t quite work as planned. So I then decided to smash those barrels in order to advance. Three seconds later I’m over the bridge and in front of me I see a giant, Icecube, with a hand sticking out of it, and an eye! There’s when I said: “Ogh boy, finally I get the chance to hand someone’s “end” over on plate, Wipii”! But nooo, I get to free the “Yeti”, who burps in my face, throwing me 5 steps back, and then tries to make a run for it. He also ‘leaks some gas’ half way through it, and gets propelled 3 feet into the air. After I catch up with him, my dear little minions decide to go and jump in… a cave of some sort. I call them back using my special pawarz and then I gently ask them to go and pester the big “gentle” furry beast, who then jumps over a gap, and starts playing baseball with me.
Now, I must say that this game isn’t quite suitable for children. No really, because in the next part, your minions get to play soccer with a group of cute, and adorable seals. What kind of person would make a game in which you have to hit some gorgeous, cute, and well designed, white fluffy seals? Anyway, the reason you actually have to kill them, is because you need to gain allot of life force in order to summon your more of your minions. Right now I have defeated 3 elves, and not because I had to, but because I wanted to(quote=”Bugs Bunny”: Ain’t I a stinker?).
But, this is as far as I could go, since the demo crashes right after the Yeti takes the gate apart. My overall opinion is that Overlord 2 is an interesting new game, great for when you want to take a brake, and you are looking to spend some time having fun. Also, you may want to keep the little ones away from it, unless you want them to be extremely traumatized. (*sniff*, I killed a seal, god).
So, take my advice and:
