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Originally posted by Calaethis Dragonsbane:
Thanks for the input. I may end up getting it then. I hope its a tad more... well, conclusive then the first one. They seemed to downplay the romances a great deal and the dialogue was lacking towards the end - or so I felt. Oh well.
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Well, if you want this to be more conclusive, it won't be - it's quite open-ended. The romances are downplayed even more here, and the dialogue towards the end drops off a lot more than the first. Just so you know.
On the other hand, the early-to-mid part of this game is brilliant. There's a lot more scope for interaction (and intra-NPC interaction) in this game. NPCs have cut-scenes with each other where they interact and carry on little intrigues. There's something called influence which allows you to gain/lose influence with party members - it doesn't work perfectly but does add complexity to your relationships with your team.
I felt the storyline in this was darker than the first one as well. You feel evil when you make evil choices in this game - particularly with the way that good party members will steadily grow to hate you when you continue to do evil things (unless you manipulate them to support your decisions via influence, hence leading them to the Dark Side). In fact, some critics say the reason that some of the end-scenes were cut were because they were too dark and evil for LucasArts - I listened to some of the cut .wav files and there's some pretty evil stuff in there:
SPOILER - SCENE THAT WAS REMOVED (mp3 file)
Evil Atton
This is why I said it's like a great novel that drops off in the last chapter. Brilliant story but not quite complete, and even more annoying when you see all the stuff that's in the game that didn't make it into the game. It's worth it just for what's in it, but you'll feel it could've been an absolute killer game and didn't quite get there, but it's still a great game.