{"id":5023,"date":"2018-06-09T04:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:38:31","slug":"legend-of-grimrock-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/legend-of-grimrock-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGEND OF GRIMROCK II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike the first game<\/a> (which got kind of annoying with everything being underground), I actually managed to complete this one<\/a> at character level 14.<\/p>\n

While I’m not a big fan of puzzles, most of the ones here are thankfully logic-based and can be solved with enough trial & error. There are only a couple that require the use of specific items or codes based off obscure messages (and for those I suggest consulting a walkthrough<\/a>). The biggest puzzle is really what sort of party composition to make and to determine that I strongly<\/em> suggest reading through this character creation guide<\/a>. Classes play much differently than you would think and you absolutely must have someone with a maxed out Alchemy skill.<\/p>\n

As for combat, some of the encounters can be a bit tricky but none of the enemies ever come across as unfair or require obscure and\/or unintuitive tactics. Really the worst I can say about the combat aspects are that when\/where you acquire injuries seems to be completely random. Another complaint would be the hunger system, as I unilaterally hate all hunger\/thirst systems, but that’s easy enough to disable using a Save Game Editor<\/a> (simply set the “food_rate” CHAR STAT to 0).<\/p>\n

So all in all it ends up an enjoyable experience with only a handful of occasional annoyances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unlike the first game (which got kind of annoying with everything being underground), I actually managed to complete this one at character level 14. While I’m not a big fan of puzzles, most of the ones here are thankfully logic-based and can be solved with enough trial & error. There are only a couple that require the use of specific items or codes based off obscure messages (and for those I suggest consulting a walkthrough). The biggest puzzle is really what sort of party composition to make and to determine that I strongly suggest reading through this character creation guide. Classes play much differently than you would think and you absolutely must have someone with a maxed out Alchemy skill. As for combat, some of the encounters can be a bit tricky but none of the enemies ever come across as unfair or require obscure and\/or unintuitive tactics. Really the worst I can say about the combat aspects are that when\/where you acquire injuries seems to be completely random. Another complaint would be the hunger system, as I unilaterally hate all hunger\/thirst systems, but that’s easy enough to disable using a Save Game Editor (simply set the “food_rate” CHAR STAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[148,28,472,165],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-action-rpg","tag-fantasy","tag-first-person-perspective","tag-puzzle-game"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}