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Finished The Spirit Engine II ten days ago, but I still haven’t managed to get around to reviewing it. Worse, that gaming magazine from here that comes with full games had Two Worlds II packed with their latest issue and I was curious about that after playing the first, though I knew that it’s worse, so bought it and started playing a couple of days ago, which obviously means that I’m now even less likely to manage to write that review. I do mean to put some effort into it at some point, however, because the game’s certainly worth at least that much.
As for Two Worlds II, I can certainly confirm that what I had seen before is true and it really is worse than the first one, which I rather enjoyed. It has a few improvements, but many things have gotten worse, the control scheme and responsiveness in particular, plus that the best thing about the first game, namely making an insanely overpowered mage that’d allow you to stop worrying about enemies and just enjoy exploring the huge game world, doesn’t quite seem to be possible anymore, or at least not nearly as quickly or as easily. Still, I’m giving it a shot and I seem to be putting a fair amount of time into it, so at least I’m doing something…

Speaking of doing something, this month really was an uphill struggle to keep putting something into my story and it’ll take some more struggling today as well if I’m to get to the end without falling behind even my own “worst case” schedule. If I’ll manage this, I’m giving up on the schedule again for next month, being content if I’ll manage to still add something every day, even if it’ll just be a few lines, and perhaps try to plan ahead so I won’t be struggling so much to find ideas when I need to write anymore. After all, during the first part the usual rule was playing out scenes in detail in my mind in seconds and then taking days to manage to put a crappy version of them, sounding much worse than I was “seeing” them, in writing, but this entire second part was much worse than that, since I didn’t even have those scenes in mind anymore and basically had to come up with more or less random events to pass the time and very loosely lead to the conclusion, which was the only thing about this part that I had in mind from the beginning… As such, I can only hope that the third part, which I’m about to start working on, will work much better, but fear that it won’t.
As for the blog, well, I do need to write a second post for this week, after all, but have no idea what. The original plan included that The Spirit Engine II review, but somehow I doubt that’s going to happen, so let’s see. Of course, there are several other issues that I’d want to write about, plus that post that I’ve had in a file, as a rough draft that’ll still take a fair amount of work, for the past six months or so, but that’s clearly not going to happen…