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Deeply disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: May 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved the original Medievil, so I was really looking forward to the sequel. The one star I gave it was for the Danhand ability. Other than that I found it VERY frustrating. Jumping in this game was just miserable. The jumps on this one had to be lined up to be EXACTLY PERFECT, and Dan doesn't jump as well on the trampolines as he did on the cargo nets in the first game. Also the camera angles constantly change on you, which may have been the most annoying thing. Once you finish a level, you can go back, BUT the life fountain is gone. So if you need to build up life, forget it! Of course, you don't start out with Danhand, so to go back and use it you have to finish the level again without any fountain of rejuvenation. You can use the cheat menu to get life, but it stinks that they would make you resort to that to replenish yourself. There should ALWAYS be a legitimate way to do that in a game. They decided to make the bosses harder as well, which got frustrating especially in light of the rejuvenation situation. The only time I really enjoyed it was with the cheats on, as that was the only way it felt a bit more like playing. I think this game had tons of potential (especially the freashow and the costume changes and the girlfriend), but instead of trying to make it even more fun than the original, they just tried to make it harder. I liked being able to just play with the first one without getting stuck in the levels. That kind of gameplay really helps you appreciate the humor in the game. Also, they only did the opening and closing cut scenes in full animation. The others were all done in game graphics, whereas the original treated you to full animation several times when you entered new areas. Pretty cheap.

really disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: September 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Medievil 2. I imangined this to be as good as its prolouge. Sadly, the serial fell from awesome to bad. The game lacks a good story. Also, they changed almost every single voice is changed from MediEvil 1. However, if you have NEVER played MediEvil number 1, the game probally won't be as bad.

I would reccomend the first game. I almost wonder if the same COMPANY made it.

Medievil 1 is much better.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The 360 turning view in this game is just as bad as the first one. If you are standing next to a wall or tall object, the turning view gets messed up bad. You can turn your view with the L and R buttons but the game itself often turns your view automatically in a wrong direction which is really annoying. After you go thru a doorway you find yourself facing the opposite direction. When you make a jump the game will sometimes turn the view on you in the middle of the jump which makes Dan fall to his death. You have to fight the auto turning with the R and L buttons which subtracts from the enjoyment of playing.
In the first one you could always replay the early levels to fill up on life. In Medievil 2 you cannot. The life fountains are gone for good once you use them and the life bottles do less and less. In Medievil 2 The missions are longer and more tedious. They are more ridiculous. It is virtually impossible to figure out what you have to do in many of the missions without a complete walkthrough. It is virtually impossible to beat this game without using the cheats menu because otherwise the game doesn't give you enough life to survive. The monsters in this one are harder to hit and it takes more hits to kill them. In ther first one Dan had a deep voice, in this one Dan has a higher pitched whiny voice which is also annoying.
Medievil 1 is a great game that is fun to play. Medievil 2 is a tedious game that is only fun to play if you have the cheats menu. To get the cheats menu, first pause the game, then hold L2 the whole time while you punch the buttons in the following order: (TCT CCT LCU DRC LLT RCL LTC DCCR) Those are abreviations for Up, Right, Down, Left, Circle, and Triangle. Then cheats will appear at the bottom of the paused menu, then you can give yourself infinite life.

Buy the original.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 28 / 31
Date: May 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved MediEvil. It was an original concept with alot of funbonuses. MediEvil II was NOT worth the $.

Daniel Fortesque isawakened for a second time by a wacky doctor so that he can save the Victorian-era world from an evil industrialist who has found the spell pages from the original game. Along the way Dan finds Kyia, a long dead Egyptian cortesan. Together, these three fight evil.

There were several problems with the new game. One is Dan's character. Although he's basically the same, there aren't the endearing little things about him we came to love in the first game.

Second is the bad guy, who is rarely interactive with Dan and never developed very well. Design-wise, you can return to levels, but can't replenish life as you could in game 1. This becomes annoying toward the end when the levels become increasingly difficult. Of course, all that difficulty becomes anti-climactic at the end when the final "bad guy" is easy to defeat.

The worst thing about the whole experience, though, is the camera angle. It's constantly switching randomly, making jumps sometimes nearly impossible. And there are several places where the camera-angle switch will make you stuck irreperably.

All-in-all, I was not happy with the quality. Developers and game-designers really have to learn to work out the bugs of a game before they release it, even if it's a guarenteed seller like this one. I won't buy Medievil 3, that's for sure.

Medievil II falls short...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: May 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am probably the biggest MediEvil fan out there. The game has so many things going for it. It is funny, action-packed, and scary with beautiful graphics and music! It is a perfect game because it is fun. You can get lost in it for hours. Now maybe I'm biased because I'm an autumn baby, so the October/Halloween feeling is a big reason I love it...but any way you look at it, it's a solid game.

When I found out they were making a MediEvil 2, I practically strangled my poor little brother in excitement. I ran out and bought it the first day it came out. Unfortunetly, to put it simply, it's not as good as it's predescessor. Frankly, the sequel could have far surpassed the original with all of it's new ideas...but, what makes it weaker is the fact that they decided to axe out a lot of what made the first one so great! So, without me rambling on in this review, I'm just going to simply seperate it into the good and the bad.

The Bad: -This time around they've decided that once the health stream is tapped...it's tapped forever. There is no way now to go back and get your health filled up. I never, ever, ever cheat! This is the first time i did. Basically, you have no choice if you want to beat the game. Only use it to refill health though.

-They've also nixed the cinematics. The ones they have, they made them using the game graphics. I sorely missed the old ones from the first. We only get one in the beginning and end. The first one is good...the last one leaves us hanging. It didn't tie up any ends and it didn't make any sense(maybe it'll be explained in 3....Here's hoping! )

-The only problem with 1 was that it was too short. The ONLY one. It had 22 levels. ......And for some reason, Medievil 2 only recieved 15.

-The futuristic space ship in this one was never explained. This time around, we're in London in 1886 and there are more advancements in technology since the medieval days. But this is above and beyond even the time machines. (By the way, for 3, let's not get any more futuristic).

-Dankenstein was an awesome idea! But it fell flat. It didn't feel like you were a frankenstein creation. The boxing game came from NOWHERE!

-A lot of times before or after a level, music will be cued and then abruptly stop. It seems like a glitch in the game that makes you wonder if you're missing something. Cinematics anyone?

-I wish all the levels were like Kensington, Wolfrum Hall, White Chapel, and the last.

The Good: -I'm running out of space, so i'll try and sum this up quickly. Overall, there are a ton of good points. Dan-hand, the mummified love interest, the professor, winston, the spiv, double weapons, new enemies & difficulty, and new options were great additions! As were some of the finest levels. Unfortunetly, the bad always seems to outweigh the good in all people's minds. So, to sum it up, MediEvil II is a strong game. What makes it weak is its lack of old features. It almost feels like the team behind the game made it as just an extent off of the old one instead of making a completely new game w/some old ideas. I know I'm leaving something out, but I assure to anyone, the game is awesome, and I truly hope Sir Dan will be around for a long time.

Not very Medievil anymore - buy the first one.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

1998 saw the release of Medievil on the Playstation. It was a fantastic game and top of the platform genre, rivalled only by Crash Bandicoot and possibly Wild 9. It was set in Medievil times, obviously, and, although a bit easy, was value for money as it is an enjoyable game from start to finish. The only glitches are the already mentioned lifespan of the game and a few camera angles.

Fast-forward two years and the sequel is somewhat dissapointing. Gone are the atmospheric, 'MEDIEVIL' levels such as 'The Sleeping Village', 'The Pirate Ship', the time zone one and the one in the castle. Instead we have a museum, an observitory and Kew Gardens. These levels were nowhere near as good as the ones in the previous game, for they had a lot more atmosphere and had a more Medievil style about them. There were still a few glimpses of the levels from the first game, Kensington (The Sleeping Village perhaps?), Cathedral Spires and Wulfrum Hall are the highlights of the game.

Apart from the above, there are no major differences. The camera angles are just as good, but can be just as bad. The control of the character is exactly the same and there is little change in the graphics. The major letdown is the length. After the challenge of the first game, this was even easier to complete. If you have the choice of buying a top class platformer then I strongly recomend Medievil 1 or Crash 3 though these can be a little easy. If your looking for a challenging platformer then buy Wild 9.

I know I've slated the game quite badly in this review, but it is still a lot better than some games I've played. A 'b-grade' platformer verging on the edge of 'A'. A few more levels and this is one of the best games ever but after the superb original, this is a little dissapointing.

Fun game, good story, bad play control!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Welcome to 18th century England where Lord Palethorn has found part of an ancient book of sorcery (which should look kinda familiar) and basically manages to repopulate the world with zombies and other critters as he does the "go off and rule the world" thing.

Sir Dan wakes up in a museum with only his own detachable arm as a weapon (to start off with, he finds a sword PDQ) and goes off to fight evil, finding some interesting characters, weapons and puzzles along the way!

This game has some cool elements, like being to pop your head off, stick it on a crawling hand, and basically run around like "Thing" from the Adam's Family. It also has a neat storyline and, of course, hacking and slashing is always a blast...

The play control needed a little help, however.

The camera angles kinda drive you nuts, and life is hard to come by! Some of the bosses are a little hard to kill, and when you go to the next level, your little, battered life-meter is really frustrating as you get wasted by EVERYTHING. Sometimes it's best to make sure you save between levels... them beat the level your on again with fewer accidents.

Also, if you make too many misjumps (which is easy to do), every one costs you an entire bar of life... the green smoke only provides about 200 points of recovery... then it goes bye-bye. If you make a lot of mistakes in a certain area, you'll pay for it later!

Cool game, had a lot of fun with it, looking forward to Midieval III should they decide to make one(Sir Dan in the future with a light-saber or something might be kinda cool!), I just hope they make the camera angles friendlier!

Better than Medievil

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Although some of the other reviews here say that some of the good things from the first Medievil were not preserved in the second, I disagree. Dan's voice is in a different and less humorous character, but the gameplay and feel has improved. The camera is easier to manipulate, and some of the jumps are frustrating because an automatic camera perspective takes over in mid-jump. The trick is to already have the camera in that position before you jump. The music is very well done and sounds like Danny Elfman's. This game also progresses more rapidly than the first. The disappearing life fountains are not such a setback--you may have to do a level more than once so that you finish with more life. This isn't really a hassle because the levels go very quickly once you have already solved them. My biggest complaint is that the game is too easy. I finished it rather quickly. Perhaps I am just a seasoned gamer, but I want more. If the life fountains had been reuseable, the game would have been FAR too easy.

All in all, if you liked the first game, you will like the second one.

Dan's back!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For those of you that have already experienced Sir Dan Fortesque in Medievil, you won't want to miss the sequel. Like most sequels, especially in the movies, there is more of the same with just a few more twists. Is it an improvement over the original...no, but it is still alot of fun.

Medevil II has a few advancements...like Dan can now play different ways (he actually takes his skull off and puts it in a hand so he can search small areas) but the basics are the same. The various worlds that he visits are not as "medievil" as before and may not be as original but you meet quite a few new advesaries and run into a few familiar ones as well. There are better weapons and you learn a few new moves early on in the game. The bad news is that there is STILL a problem with the camera angles however, it will not deter from the game that much and is viewed mostly as an inconvenience. Load times are tolerable and the overall graphics seem smoother and the backgrounds as usual, are great. The game instills humor, even though old boney Dan doesn't even have a jaw to use, he still manages to murmer and grunt in all the right places. The only really irritating thing in the game is the spectral ghost that helps you along the way. For some reason he sounds like an English/Irish version of Curly (3 stooges). He gets old real fast and unfortunately, you can't really avoid him. The voice acting and sound effects are good (well except for that spectral dude) and the music is also well done. The game moves along at a quick pace (although it is somewhat short) and is appropriate for kids since there isn't that much gore or violence. Also, the control is easy to pick up and simple to use for kids and adults alike.

Overall, if your looking for fun, entertaining and user-friendly game, pick up Medievel II. And as the spectral ghostie dude would say "you woint be disappointed"

Very complex, but very entertaining.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Graphics: 7/10 - A bit unclear in places but you can definitely see how much effort when into making these creatures look fabulous and making the towns look realistic.

Sound: 9/10 - The best thing about this game! The sound is thunderous and fabulous, it literally takes you into the times of MediEvil!

Value: 7/10 - You won't play this game much if you not really willing to be very strategic, but it's definitely worth the money for a few weeks entertainment.

Overall: 7/10 - MediEvil 2 is intelligent, entertaining and is put together nicely, it's very worth playing but only if you have the time to solve all the complex problems.

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