Remember in the first one where the difficulty was setup in such a way it allowed you to chose how to engage. You could take under leveled characters to a higher level area. It's not a good idea but you had choices. Also if a character died in your squad it added even more tension. You had to find a way to get through it so you didn't lose everyone.

This game doesn't give you a choice. It throws you in situations that you will have very little chance at winning simply because you haven't played enough. I'm not an idiot. I've played the first one. I know how to setup a good team. It's just makes me sigh. It's not even like you are fighting a boss either. It'll just be some random encounter that either dominates you completely or if you do manage to scrap up a win will leave you so completely crippled you lose in the next fight.

The other thing I have a problem is. With this game when your character dies, and they will die a lot, it just makes me want to abandon the run. It's rather pointless to continue because again the encounter just smash you so hard. It doesn't add tension and raise the stakes like the first one. Just leaves me feeling deflated and annoyed.

Honestly i think i'm part of the minority but i prefer this one over the first one, the battle system feels so much better made, the characters and the rogue-lite aspect to me feels way more fun than the original, don't get me wrong, i still love the first DD for what it offered and how it's constructed, but i find myself installing DD1 just to uninstall it the next day and keep playing 2, and with it finally getting more updates regularly and soon getting a new game mode, i think i will stick with this one for a while.

My review might change in the future, but for the time being, i still prefer this one, even tho DD1's final boss is superior, the journey to the final boss is what puts me back from playing it again lol