#SHADOW WARRIOR 2 ORBS SERIES#

When you’re just constantly slinging to bright green rings, then wall running, then grabbing the green rings, it becomes lackluster since there isn’t any challenge. Not that this is necessarily bad, but it seems like they needed to continue to pepper in the new grapple hook and it can become repetitive in spots. I really enjoyed all the designs of the levels even though a lot of it feels like small, interconnected platforming parts to get to the next battle arena. The story takes us through some really great looking Feudal Japan locations while we hack ‘n’ shoot through waves of nasty demons. This is the story about how Lo Wang gets his groove back. Teaming up with his once rival Orochi Zilla, Wang sets off on a mission to get his mojo back and stop another demon invasion lead by the world-ending dragon. We do get to play a few flashbacks through these segments where we are trying to take down the dragon, but ultimately Wang couldn’t finish and lost his mojo. This is where Lo Wang catches us up with the ending of two and a bit of an exposition dump about what’s happened since they released the massive dragon. We join Lo Wang amidst a completely destroyed Wang Cave, having a meltdown talking to action figures in his tighty-whities. My point being, Shadow Warrior 3 goes back to the first games linear story focus, but it also improves it a lot.

However, the second game added so many weapons, stats, RPG elements, and mission freedom that if that is what you enjoyed more than Shadow Warrior 3 may feel like a big step back. For myself, I liked the more linear focus of the first game over the seconds procedural generated level designs and less focused story.

#SHADOW WARRIOR 2 ORBS SERIES#

Depending on when you got into the series you may have had mixed feeling about Shadow Warrior 2‘s direction.

I'll revisit them if possible.The Wang is back and harder than ever with a new sack of weapons and loads of hot new jokes. (I apologize for the bad crop with the screenshots to Flirty Fishing Parts 1&2, though they should do their job. Especially for the shared areas, this is of no significance, for the Story Areas, it could be that they can't be collected after a certain point in the mission. Note on my naming convention: I originally had a list of secrets, named after the mission where I first found them, and numbered accordingly within this list.

I use the big map with values of 0.03 for the icons and 200 for the map zoom. What I found to help is changing the map zoom (and size of icons) as shown here. If you want to hunt for secrets, something useful is to go into screenshot mode and fly around a bit (for example through walls), I discovered quite a few this way. Since sometimes elements of the map get shifted around, try to take a number of screenshots starting out from recognizable features. If you take screenshots, make sure to have the big map enabled. (Thanks to /u/Kinada350 for pointing that out!) The 'Shadow Warrior 2' symbol (as seen here), indicates a nearby secret. (Currently under reconstruction for readability and to account for levels with the same secrets)

Shadow warrior 2 orbs