![]() ![]() With any game that embraces exploration, a reliance on a map is essential and the one found in SteamWorld Dig 2 is brilliant with doors, caves, quests and fast travel tubes all well highlighted. The water powered Jackhammer is also a much appreciated way of doing away with the pickaxe, helping rid the harder earthen tiles quicker. The essentials like a bigger backpack, stronger light source and harder armor will help with the basics, but getting access to the tricky to handle Hook Shot or delightful Jetpack will see the later stages swiftly traversed and a much needed simplicity to backtracking put in place. Early moments will see this young Steambot struggling along with a crappy pickaxe capable of nothing more than shifting a bit of soil, but it won’t be long before enough upgrade cogs have been acquired and tons of cash earnt from the mining side of things to allow for enhancements galore to really open up the landscape – quite literally. In order to help Dorothy out, a range of gadgets are called on gadgets that are essential to everything that happens in SteamWorld Dig 2. And that’s a joy to see as precision is utterly vital to the whole experience. Aside from the odd occasion in which I’ve felt that a hit mechanic against the numerous foes found underground is slightly off, for the most part every jump, fall, thrust and swing of the pickaxe is spot on. Of course, and whilst visuals, audio and a clever story are all great, none of this would work without some decent gameplay mechanics. The audio is very nearly on a par with the visuals too, and whilst I’d have liked to have heard the narrative play out via proper conversations instead of the text based mumble jumble that is at hand, the backing tracks and gameplay effects more than make up for this, accompanying your adventure and really helping highlight the tough situations you occasionally find yourself in. The inclusion of some well placed, cleverly structured fast travel points also help with this. Yes, the initial throes are a bit slow to get going, with a constant need to head back to the surface in order to unload your backpack and cash in your rewards with the residents up top seeing the action come across as a bit stop/start, but as the abilities of both your character and items start to get upgraded, the less requirement there is to be constantly travelling back. With multiple areas bringing a variety of different zones, each with their own unique styles, enemies, items, resources and more, the exploration you’ll find yourself partaking in with SteamWorld Dig 2 never gets boring. In fact things are great, with bright bold colours ensuring that no matter how deep you are digging, you’ll want to continue going down, round, and across. ![]() ![]() Visually things are good within SteamWorld Dig 2. They bring a much needed piece of variety from the usual grind of mining too, seeing you calling on a bit of the old grey matter instead of brute force. ![]() Upon completion of each you’ll be well rewarded too and so taking some time out from Dorothy’s main quest is very much called for. And even though this digging rarely gets tiresome, thankfully it’s not just all about burrowing, looting and progression of the intriguing story, and scattered throughout the mines are numerous challenge caves, each of which bring something slightly different to the table. Oh, and without ruining the tale of either this, or the game that has gone before it, an old friend may just be found along the way.Īs you may expect, much of your progress and time in SteamWorld Dig 2 will be spent harnessing paths and creating routes to allow Dorothy to head further underground, inching ever closer to understanding what is exactly going on underneath the lands of this town. With Metroidvania roots holding the entire experience together, and a whole life’s worth of digging and bashing opportunities to come, it’ll be up to you to help Dorothy head underground, hammering away until she has uncovered loot, managed to grab some resources and discovered the reason behind the tremors and terrors that lie beneath. See, it is this town which is currently being beset by numerous earthquakes, with the residents unclear as to the real source behind them. SteamWorld Dig 2 follows the life of Dorothy, a lone steambot who has rocked up into an old desolate trading town – El Machino – in the hope that she can not only re-establish a friendship with the protagonist from the first game – Rusty – but also help solve their issues in the process. ![]()
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