I guess for me cunning and ranged weapons are the two areas where I concentrated a lot. Ranged weapons remove this required precision and makes the game, in my opinion, a lot of fun. Ranged weapons are also quite good for this game, as I mentioned above sword-fighting can be a real pain as you need to be quite precise when engaging in that sort of combat.

Yes, level up the cunning ability and you will be able to steal more accurately and in the end that benefits you. Whenever I play RPGs, I tend to conserve whatever is the in-game currency for that specific game, and Risen 2 is no different. Then it’s just a series of quests which help you accumulate Glory, so that you can dig deeper in the game.Īs I mentioned in my preview here, the combat is slightly clumsy and the game is pretty challenging as well, so you need to be on your guards at all time if you are planning to engage in sword fighting and are thinking about leveling that area. You also have to take down the Kraken, which is shown at the beginning of the game sinking a pirate ship with all its tentacles.

The premise of the story is to find a mystical weapon. I actually preferred how it was set up in the first game, so this ended up being slightly disappointing for me. They’re mostly technical issues, as in, breaking down the land mass into smaller islands and what not. Risen 2 is a pirate themed RPG, and lovers of the first game will find a lot of things similar here, and as for Piranha Bytes, the developers of the game - some of the design changes they have implemented here a cause for concern. I did preview Risen 2 earlier which you can check out here, and while the preview code showed a lot of promise, the full game leaves a lot to be desired.

Risen 2 is Piranha Bytes second entry under publisher Deep Silver, and I have to admit that I was a big fan of the first game. Risen 2 does not set the world on fire when it comes to graphics it does look great, but not that great to make my PC chug along slower than a snail. I shouldn’t have to settle for that, though. It’s an i7 with 570 GTX GPU, which I think should be enough for the game, or so I thought.īut I did manage to get it running at 40 fps after some tweaking and installing newer drivers, and I think that was sort of a satisfactory performance level for me after what I encountered earlier. Of course, my PC is not at fault here, otherwise I wouldn’t be mentioning that. I had a tough time getting Risen 2 to work on Steam, and when I finally managed to do that, the game was simply unplayable and running at 10 fps.

Instaling Risen