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Good concept, looks beautiful and terrifying all at once. Terribly balanced, does not achieve the tension necessary to create a real horror game.

Death in the Water 2 is shit. The audio/visual experience is a pretty good one, making it a very shiny turd, however your nose will not be fooled. This sucks.

When you launch the “””story”””, some text tells you it was made by two people. Well congrats, fellas, cause your game looks really good. The sharks/snakes/sirens look good, the blood effects are nice 'n' murky, I like how the reticle moves in sync with the bobbing of the guns/swaying of your arms, and when you bump into things you'll hear that scratchy sound you find in diving videos. The ever-so-slight delay with your actions as your character has to actually turn in water feels realistic and not overly sluggish; a tough balance to strike. The presentation is very commendable.

And that's it.

There's not much of a plot to speak of because it never changes what you'll be doing: you're in the water, a woman on the radio says “Go over there,” so you do, you collect three or four treasure chests, and then you fight off rabid creatures, over and over again. A Kraken is making the wildlife go a little whacky and attack you after it unleashes an “Inception”-style BRAAAAM. In the beginning, this is like five easy sharks. In the end, its a few dozen sharks (who are now as durable as a bus), snakes, and sirens. Plus it gets so dark and cloudy you can barely see ahead for each level's end. It's very tedious and the only challenges are not running out of ammo (pretty easy) and not falling asleep at your desk (impossible).
The levels follow this pattern ad nauseam. The final level is the only break, but it's just skipping the gold gathering and going right to the swarm, now with a Kraken harpoon-sponge swimming around way too fast in addition to the dickhead fish. You don't even get to watch it die.
Something that pissed me off: there are treasure chests and supply chests. Supply chests drop ammo and, rarely, health kits. I beat this game in two sittings, and when I chose “Save and exit” after Dive 11, I figured it would... you know, save my shit? Like my accrued combo and my dozen health kits, both of which have been carrying over into the next missions? Apparently I'm a moron cause no, it saved nothing except which level I was on. There is no 'Mission Select' so that was as good as it got and I guess I was lucky to even get that. Awesome. I considered abandoning the game after this plus in a later dive being stabbed to death by a siren (hit-hit-hit, she cheated), having to restart the entire thing, it just brought me to the edge of patience. I pushed through and was rewarded with nothing. Double awesome.

There's a Challenge Mode with terrible scaling, where in two minutes you're already swarmed and pissed off, still stuck with the slow harpoon. It won't keep you coming back and, like the campaign, it's a waste of your life.

I do not recommend Death in the Water 2. Happy 2024.

The animation, visuals, audio, everything feels awesome. The AI is some of the best I've seen in recent years. It's a little repetitive near the end and lacks a lot in variety but overall a pretty darn good game.