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For the King II

2023-11-02

Platforms: Series X|S, PC, PS5, XONEDeveloper: IronOak GamesPublisher: Curve GamesGame modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operativePlayer perspectives: Bird view / Isometric, Side view

Genres:

Role-playing (RPG)

Strategy

Adventure

Indie

Themes:

Fantasy

Battle against Fahrul's tyrannical Queen alone or as a party of 4 players in the sequel to For The King, the massively popular turn-based roguelike tabletop RPG. Level up and explore as you unravel the once beloved Queen's terrible secret.

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Danilovesongs

For the King II

5 days ago

cute couple of a-holes

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Rob_et_TitaArchived a game1 month ago

For the King II

16 hours

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La suite de For the king 2 mais à 4 joueurs au lieu de 3. Bonne nouvelle. Cependant il faut refaire ses perso à chaque fois qu'un chapitre de l'histoire est fini. Nous on aurait voulu finir le scénario avec les mêmes perso comme dans le 1...

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Th_Lad_KlausArchived a game2 months ago

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20 hours

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For The King II was a game I was really looking forward too, a game I really gave a chance too. When it first came out, I saw the reviews pour in, "mixed", the game ran like crap and was terribly balanced. So I held off, I gave the game over a year to grow and be patched. I bought it on sale, no way I was going to be stupid and not do that. Finally I was able to play the game, and it pains me to say it was a let down. I was a huge fan of For The King I, I have over 100 hours into it. I adored it's cutesy toy box style and the interesting 3v3 gameplay in a DnD esque style. For The King II did away from that endearing style to do a bland, generic RPG style with more realistic looking models. While this may work for some, I was really let down by this departure. Not only that, but all of the games environments and maps look bland, unsaturated and boring. This certainly is made worse by the fact they reused the exact world map from FTK1, but that's understandable as it's a direct sequel. The music had some nice upgrades and remakes from the original game that I actually liked, and the battle theme was stuck in my head a lot, so the music was well done, but I still wanted more original tunes. The story was run of the mill and generic, not to mention the story seemed to be built completely around setting up a sequel. Constantly making conflict with characters for no reason, having the **SPOILER** Queen be "mind controlled". I feel overall that it wasn't even these ideas that were bad, but the poor writing and execution of them that made it bad. Lastly is probably my most mixed part, the gameplay. There are a lot of things I like, loadouts, the 6 square battle area, and some of the new classes. I really enjoyed the Friar, and it was great to see that Hunter and Herbalist are still as OP as ever! The 6 panel battle area started off a little too cumbersome for my liking, and I felt made battles longer and more annoying, and they did, but they were a step in the right direction. I can't imagine how much else they could have innovated on the grid battle idea. The problems though stem from balance issues and difficulty. I am a baby when I try new games, so I usually start on the lowest difficulty to get a feel for the gameplay. But this time I went ahead and played on hard because of my experience with the first game. DEAR GOD. I ended up lowering it to APPRENTICE, the lowest difficulty and I still had to end up using all of my lives and then some to keep my party going. The game is a huge difficulty boost from the first one, almost in a negative way. The progression is slow as it takes FOREVER to get your party equipped and going, which by the time you finally do, the chapter is over and YOU HAVE TO MAKE A NEW PARTY?!? Every time you start a new chapter, it's a new party. Now I get it from a thematic POV, the resistance is big and there's a lot of people who fight for it, but I don't want to make and relevel an entirely new party for 5 chapters straight. In conclusion, I am absolutely sure that compared to where the game was at launch, it is significantly better, I mean the studio has been nominated for a "Labor of Love" Award at the Steam awards this year (2024) so it's been doing well. Despite this however, I was still greatly disappointed from a sequel to one of my favorite games of all time. It was a huge let down with poorly balanced enemies and pacing to generic design and story. The battle system made leaps and bounds forward in many ways, but also a lot of steps back from how poorly implemented things were. When I finished my second playthrough, I wasn't motivated to slog through it again for different endings or to unlock lore store items like I was in the first game, I just uninstalled. I gave this game over year and it still didn't live up to the legacy of the first game. Maybe I can revisit this game in a future of sequels where it's a "black sheep" but honestly, I doubt it. Here's to trying though, final score - 3/5 stars.

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Th_Lad_Klausmoved a game from Want to play to Playing2 months ago

For the King II

So far so good, there's things I like and don't like. Will save overall thoughts after I beat the main story

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moose_cakeArchived a game5 months ago

For the King II

3 ноября стрим открытие этой вкусности 🥮

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BurdisGamesArchived a game1 year ago

For the King II

Playing with cianw9 and wolfy

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Rob_et_Titamoved a game from Want to play to Playing1 year ago

For the King II

Stream Bras cassés feat Mielemiah et Wexer

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RankOne Supporter

For the King II

1 year ago

quando o deus dos games te escuta

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Psico32Reviewed a game1 year ago

For the King II

3 hours

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Esta divertido, pero es dificil como él solo, al menos siendo 2. Jugandolo de a 3 o 4 debe ser mucho mas facil

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moose_cakemoved a game from Want to play to Playing1 year ago

For the King II

3 ноября стрим открытие этой вкусности 🥮

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