Worst second part you've ever played

[fake-kun]

So Rockman & Forte: Mirai kara no Chōsensha is GOATed, right?

No. I didn't mention it because I don't consider it to be a sequel to the original MM&B.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

MGSV

The first part was just "ok", but the second part is just grind until you manage to unlock the last video... I really dont know what game all journalists and youtubers played, because it certainly wasnt a copy of the same MGSV that i have.

 

[MasterEn]

MGSV

The first part was just "ok", but the second part is just grind until you manage to unlock the last video... I really dont know what game all journalists and youtubers played, because it certainly wasnt a copy of the same MGSV that i have.

they probably just played the first part of the game. konami set up a literal boot camp for reviewers to go to so they could play the game. i think it lasted like 3 or 4 days. not enough time to thoroughly go through a game. sometimes the better reviews are the ones that come out later. one youtuber that i watch did a review on pikmin 4 about a year or so after it came out. it's a 4 hour video going over every part of the game. i got it on my list to watch later.

 

[Moth_Lobster]

After doing an EXTENSIVE 100% playthrough of Wind Waker... yeah its second half can be rough. Getting 100% in any open world game can become tedious, but Wind Waker's entire second half is just exploring (for anyone that hasn't played you need to find eight items to progress. To find these items you need to find a map for each specific one. Each map also needs to be decoded, which costs a lot of money. Essentially to find one of these items to you need to sail to Point A, grab the map, go get it decoded at point B, then go to point C to retrieve the item. Do this eight times)
There's virtually no story progress outside of the Earth and Wind temples during this time, and the game doesn't really have that many proper sidequests. I couldn't even stop my 100% run to go do something else because at this point in the game, story progress was basically the exact same thing I was already doing.

 

[aquova]

Every NES sequel except for Mega Man 2

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I feel like a broken record but... Deus Ex: Invisible War (AKA: Deus Ex: Twitter Edition, AKA: Deus Xbox)... What the hell happened there?

 

[snes9x]

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Agreed, a big step back from the original in just about every regard. I liked it a little more than X at least.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Dragon's Dogma 2

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I don't think they are bad games but compared to the previous or next game they are too far behind for my taste:

Super Mario Bros 2.

Silent Hill 2.

Fatal Frame II.

SMB2 i can fully agree .

Silent Hill 2 is rather overrated and got way too much spotlight while the other games getting more overlooked because SH2 is being seen as the peak of the series with its story . Its a great game but one that still fumbles the horror a bit.

But Fatal Frame 2 is actually awesome .
Not so creepy like the first one but the gameplay is butter-smooth , its very content rich , huge replay-value and the story and the endings are really interesting .

 

[moonbits]

Dbz Budokai 2

the switch from cool cutscenes/story mode to a board game really slapped my 9 year old ass, didn't finish it.

 

[Tonberry]

After doing an EXTENSIVE 100% playthrough of Wind Waker... yeah its second half can be rough. Getting 100% in any open world game can become tedious, but Wind Waker's entire second half is just exploring (for anyone that hasn't played you need to find eight items to progress. To find these items you need to find a map for each specific one. Each map also needs to be decoded, which costs a lot of money. Essentially to find one of these items to you need to sail to Point A, grab the map, go get it decoded at point B, then go to point C to retrieve the item. Do this eight times)
There's virtually no story progress outside of the Earth and Wind temples during this time, and the game doesn't really have that many proper sidequests. I couldn't even stop my 100% run to go do something else because at this point in the game, story progress was basically the exact same thing I was already doing.

I was always flabbergasted by this when I started to use the internet more, because I always thought the triforce hunt was the coolest part of the game and was really surprised to see what a common opinion disliking it was.

As for my contribution to the thread, I’ll go out on a limb and say the Kanto part of Pokémon GSC. It’s up to interpretation if you consider Kanto the second half or just the postgame, but I think it’s substantial enough to count as the second half.
While a cool thing, it’s not really super interesting as it’s more or less just grinding through the entirety of the region without any particularly cool events.
Also doesn’t help that some gen2 Pokémon were relegated to that region, but the levels are so wonky so you’d get like a level 16 Houndour when your team was in their 50s-60s.

 

[MasterEn]

I was always flabbergasted by this when I started to use the internet more, because I always thought the triforce hunt was the coolest part of the game and was really surprised to see what a common opinion disliking it was.

As for my contribution to the thread, I’ll go out on a limb and say the Kanto part of Pokémon GSC. It’s up to interpretation if you consider Kanto the second half or just the postgame, but I think it’s substantial enough to count as the second half.
While a cool thing, it’s not really super interesting as it’s more or less just grinding through the entirety of the region without any particularly cool events.
Also doesn’t help that some gen2 Pokémon were relegated to that region, but the levels are so wonky so you’d get like a level 16 Houndour when your team was in their 50s-60s.

it would be cool if it was a bit more spread out throughout the story, rather than being done all at once. if i remember correctly, you have to pay to have the maps deciphered and it costs a pretty penny as the saying goes. i would have probably stopped there when i tried to play the game many years ago.
kanto is generally agreed to be the post game part of gold, silver and crystal.
yeah, it is kind of boring after your initial go through. some stuff is interesting, like viridian forest being gone, some new buildings popping up. a couple of gym leaders change.
but the placement of the pokemon, for both regions. i don't have words to describe the bewilderment that i get upon looking at maps of pokemon locations. half of the new and cool looking pokemon are so far into kanto it's not funny. the new ghost pokemon can be completely missed on your way to the top of mt silver; i think there was a fire slug or something to find outside of celedon city. and the levels matching the first games when you got up to lv 50 or higher to get there. just complete nonsense.

 

[Dyne]

SaGa Frontier 2
Parasite Eve 2

I enjoyed the first ones a lot but I just couldn't get into the 2nd one at all.

 

[Esidemoken]

But Fatal Frame 2 is actually awesome .
Not so creepy like the first one but the gameplay is butter-smooth , its very content rich , huge replay-value and the story and the endings are really interesting .

I didn't say it was bad, just that for me it's the one I like the least of the saga, I even like IV better in comparison.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I didn't say it was bad, just that for me it's the one I like the least of the saga, I even like IV better in comparison.

Oh okay . Then thats very understandable .
Didnt played the 3rd and 4th game which i cant say about those . Look like i need to hunt down those games too . Thanks for the clarification .

 

[depes]

.hack//Mutation. It's a weird series all around, being one single game's worth of story spread into 4, but the second one does not expand into the first one's gameplay at all and extremely little happens in the story itself.

 

[Lokgamer]

@Lokgamer
@trickybus
In the case of SH2 leaving aside that the plot of that game was quite new in its time, the game as such was too easy, I reached the end without planning much with many more ammunition than necessary and the scenarios were very few and simplistic compared to the first SH, of course head pyramid is great and prefer it before Nemesis but does not compensate for everything I did not like the game, which I clarify not say it's bad but I prefer the 1 and 3 before the 2.

Fatal Frame II I think it's similar, although it feels much less claustrophobic than the first one, it has nothing that makes me consider it better than the first one, that is to say that for me it doesn't stand out in anything and something that I didn't like at all was to being forced to play in the maximum difficulty to get the real ending. Of this saga I prefer by far the 3 and 4.

I see. Well for me it's pretty simple. excellent atmosphere=excellent horror games. That's why I love those games. If it's easy or hard, it's irrelevant.

Post automatically merged: Jun 25, 2025

Oh yeah, such a letdown from the first game

yup, pretty disappointed

Post automatically merged: Jun 25, 2025

Lords of Shadow 2 was kind of letdown coming from the first game. Same goes for Obscure 2 and Parasite Eve 2. I like them but I lean more on the prior entries.

I liked lords of shadows 2 lol, but i gotta say the first game is better.

Post automatically merged: Jun 25, 2025

the sequel is a weird mess. it's a standalone/sequel/spinoff game. the characters are badly written, they do things that make no sense. you have 2 permanent party members, other characters will join you temporarily. you get to recruit monsters and train them; so, you could have some interesting set ups. there's no open world exploration, you now have a menu displayed over a world map and you select where you want to go. there's no real set up for the story; it just kind of starts and nothing in the game is hinted at in the previous game. they do show off one thing that was interesting, but i am not going to spoil the game.
the game did do one thing that i liked; it made the romance option that i picked canon, so; you take the good with the bad i guess. i don't think the romance is still canon in the sequel, so; 2/10.

Sounds like a really weird chinpokomon... and I don't like that.