Wednesday, June 25, 2025

The smallest of gripes so far (DS2)-UNR

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I’m in the early game, there will be no story spoilers but mild gameplay ones; if you want to go in totally blind obviously do not read this post.

Do a solid for your fellow gamer and mark anything (story or gameplay) about future episodes with a spoiler warning. I’m at episode 4 currently.

  • No private room scenes.

What I mean by “scene” here are all the little Sam Fidgets and interactions from the first game by zooming in or interacting with things. It seems such a strange thing to exclude considering how fond we all think of them and even if Kojima didn’t want to expand they could’ve at least just carried over the pre existing ones with little to no effort. I want to be punched by Norman Reedus for zooming in on his Normal Weenus :(

  • The auto climb

Sam will now automatically vault and climb over small ledges. This is a good thing in concept but in practice it means a bunch of tiny interruptions to watch him hop up a small ledge that in the first game despite the prompt could have been walked over.

  • The damn backpack gets dirty, damn dirty

Listen I love the weather effects on your suit and cargo and stuff; it’s great! ….but it’s also a little overeager in my opinion, I’m putting the work in to unlock these patches and trick my pack out with some swag bling and five minutes later my whole thing is crusted over in tar or sand. I’d like to remind you that these are the ˢᵐᵃˡˡᵉˢᵗ of gripes.

  • Can’t scrub through the song you’re listening to

I was skeptical about the music player, I felt Kojima left it out on purpose in the first game (hell it even blocks using the PlayStation Spotify app) but it’s grown on me and they definitely didn’t use its inclusion as an excuse to skimp out on all the great sound design. My one issue with it is that songs will get interrupted, skip, or start over while you’re doing various things and you can’t just select the song and fast forward back to where you left off.

  • Can’t ride the damn monocycle

Ever since I saw that first trailer I’ve been so hyped to ride that tiny little thing. Look at it! It’s got both sides for holding cargo just like the trike. I know it’d suck to ride, probably have a really low weight limit but… come on!!!! I wanna ride the damn unicycle. I expected its small size would allow it to be picked up if you got stranded without a battery or needed to go up a cliff. To be fair I’m very early game so maybe you will get it later on but as of right now I’m big mad!

That’s all my little gripes so far; I wanna say I fucking love this game already and I’m so excited to continue; no actual problems I can think of thus far and it tickles me pink I get to say that.

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