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BioShock 2 is...

...by all means an unnecessary sequel.

Every single new addition serves only to annoy me.

One of the new features has you "adopting" Little Sisters, whom you can then use to gain Adam from one of the (many) corpses strewn about the place. As soon as you set down your little tike to start gathering Adam, you will be set upon by a literally endless stream of Splicers until the little Bitch is done with her task.
Die in the process, and you'll have to do the whole thing over again.
Thankfully though, Gatherings are optional, and most of them are a matter of choosing your position and setting up decent defense, so it involves some strategic thinking.

The Gatherings therefore, I can still muster up to some point, although having to redo them from start when you die is really annoying. The problem is that once you decide to take care of your adopted Sister, be it by rescuing her or harvesting her, you run a chance of being attacked by a Big Sister.
A Big Sister is like a Big Daddy, in that a cheetah is like my aunt's obese cat.
THEY ARE NOT NICE TO DEAL WITH.
The addition of Big Sisters is a HUGE pain in the ass, and just makes me reluctant to deal with Little Sisters in the first place.

Even though I had little to no trouble getting through the hardest difficulty in the first game, even Normal has me dying time and time again, and one of the main reasons for this is that the respawn rate HAS to be higher than the original, I'm sure of it.
I don't even remember enemies respawning in the original, but here they are all over the place every single time you step out of a Vita Chamber, it just pisses me off.

I see that the original game I loved so much is still in here somewhere; graphics, presentation and atmosphere are still second to none, the gameplay mechanics are still a lot more fun than 95% of all other FPSs, but I'm finding it just too much of a chore to play.

posted by Ingen! @ 8:48 AM