Topic: Red Steel 2 Megathread!

[EasyCure]

This game gets better and better as you go along.  The new moves really keep making the combat better and better.  I just learned the matador and the shot.  The shot is probably my favorite.

Good to know!

I also like all the hidden things they have around like the Sherrif Stars, it reminds me of looking for the items in Metroid.

speaking of which...


Did anyone else catch tihs?

[BlackNMild2k1]

that's the first one I found

As far as where I'm sitting. where I'm sitting is fine, the controls work fine when I'm not in combat and then all of a sudden it won't right and I have to swing harder than usual to execute something that worked fine just seconds ago.

I can work around it, and so far the game looks good. But hopefully this issue disappears later on.

[EasyCure]

that's the first one I found

Really? There were so many more obvious ones before that point. I think that was like my 5th. And the point of the pic was that the sign looks a bit like Samus' helmet. Didn't Retro help RS2's devs out with WM+ for this game? If so, I wonder if that was merely coincidental..

[BlackNMild2k1]

I looked around pretty much everywhere and that was the 1st one I saw. I had about 34-36k coins by the time I got there and it's not even that far into the game.

[EasyCure]

You suck

[BlackNMild2k1]

and that part is just past the point of no return for the 1st part of the game ;_;


What do the sheriff coins earn you anyway?

[EasyCure]

I'll let shyguy answer that one..

I swear I have at LEAST 5 of those things and the last thing I remember doing is rescuing that Tamika chick. The first one was actually in plain sight, so i'm assuming it was literally the FIRST one you can get; since after that I kept an eye out for them.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I've got about 5 of them now too. I just learned Guillotine and Storm and upgraded my Katana to level II. I only have about 8k gold left and I just had about 60k 10 minutes ago.

So far I'm digging this game and besides the control issues that plagued me during the first parts of the game, it's works pretty well.

[EasyCure]

I've been too busy catching up on the forums to play. LOL lapsed gamer..

[ShyGuy]

Sheriff stars earn you money, lust like the tokens and such. Almost everything is upgradeable, so you can eventually buy armor, health, sword power, gun abilities, better ammo, more ammo, etc...

[EasyCure]

Sheriff stars earn you money, lust like the tokens and such. Almost everything is upgradeable, so you can eventually buy armor, health, sword power, gun abilities, better ammo, more ammo, etc...

So.. shooting **** like Vents and barrels will give you spare change, but the Sheriff Badges are like finding a wallet?

[Manthony Chopkins]

Just beat the game on normal a few days ago. It was not too difficult, but slicing up some baddies with all of the moves was pretty sweet, especially combinig them to do some nifty finishing moves. I am definitely going to play through this again on a harder difficulty and I just havea few questions for anyone who has beaten the game on Ninja Mode. Is it pretty challenging? Or should I try to make it difficult for myself by doing things such as not upgrading any of my stuff?

[ShyGuy]

Attention: I now rank this the best third party game on Wii Yes, better than RE4 Wii.

I just finished the game and found it really enjoyable all the way through. There are about 3 and half open world areas with straight up action levels in between. Tons of items to collect for money, and tons of things to upgrade. The enemies are varied and force you to use your arsenal of attacks.

Sadly, I don't think this game will do well. It requires to much effort for the fat. lazy soft-core gamers who call themselves the hardcore this generation. It took me 18 hours to finish the game and I played every minute standing up. Part of me wishes I played this on hard instead of medium.

Spoilers:
There was one challenge I didn't do in the game. In the mines, there was a posion filled chamber with a safe in it. I couldn't crack the safe before my health expired.

The end boss threatens that there are other clans coming for your sword, but you tell him off and break the blade in half in his stomach. Setting up for a sequel?

I give it a 9 out of 10

[Dirk Temporo]

The second opinions on IGN are kind of interesting.

I love the last guy, who says that the Motion+ "definitely improved the shooting accuracy."

What an idiot. I can't even believe they let him review games for a living.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Attention: I now rank this the best third party game on Wii Yes, better than RE4 Wii.

I just finished the game and found it really enjoyable all the way through. There are about 3 and half open world areas with straight up action levels in between. Tons of items to collect for money, and tons of things to upgrade. The enemies are varied and force you to use your arsenal of attacks.

Sadly, I don't think this game will do well. It requires to much effort for the fat. lazy soft-core gamers who call themselves the hardcore this generation. It took me 18 hours to finish the game and I played every minute standing up. Part of me wishes I played this on hard instead of medium.

I don't know exactly how far I am into the game (just got the tommy gun) but I was thinking that I  should have played it on Hard too until I got to Payne. I must've fought him about a dozen times before I finally beat him. I almost beat him about half the time, but when I go in for a slash, it would hurt him and he wold just choke slam me, call out some new guys and it was over. Had to adjust my head on strategy to parry strike strategy, but that's when I realized that playing it on Hard probably wouldn't have been the best idea for me (did I mention that I played it just fine for about 2 hours today while laying down ).

I'm really digging this game so far though, but damn do I have so much money. Just before my last purchase, I had almost $230k from breaking damn near everything that didn't require a bullet, and some of the things that did.

[ShyGuy]

Don't forget to spend moola to upgrade your bullets and your animal specials.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I haven't got that far yet.

[KDR_11k]

I didn't find Payne THAT hard, Shinjiro is much more of a pain since the bastard has hardly any openings and when he has one he'll close it fairly fast with a bunch of fast attacks so overestimating one will lead to taking a few hits.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I was being bullish and charging in trying to go for the quick kill. It almost worked the half the time but somehow my power thrust would do no damage and he would gran me by the throat and kill me.

It's not that he was hard, it's that I wasn't paying smart, I was just rushing in head first without thinking. One time I power thrusted him about 8 times in a row without him getting up and it almost killed him, so I kept thinking I cold just power attack my way through it and be done.... I was wrong.

The only other time I've died was when riding the truck during the quicktime events. There was one part where it just said push A, and I pushed it immediately on several attempt and it just wasn't registering, so I kept dieing, it almost got to the point of frustrating.

Everything else so far hasn't been hard at all, but I'm glad I didn't put it on hard since I'm still having issues with the damn thing not swinging some times. Just regular swings that work when not in combat are not working while in combat. He will just stand there while I'm swinging away or trying to do a finisher move when the enemy is down.

[SixthAngel]

Payne slapped me around for a while too.

I think you can change the difficulty any time you want.  The difficulty is part of the profile and you can change before you hit continue so it shouldn't matter if you started on medium because you can up it to hard.

[ShyGuy]

Okaji is tough.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Don't forget to spend moola to upgrade your bullets and your animal specials.

I just figured out what you were talking about. Just upgraded all 3 of my guns with what ever was available. 1st 2 guns with 3 upgrades x2 and the last gun with 3 upgrades x1. Now I'm broke.... just spent 210k in one shop visit.

edit: I was wrong. I didn't even notice ALL the ammo boxes that you can upgrade too. I hardly use the gun except for shooting things out of reach and "The Shot" finisher, but now I have a reason to go collect more money.

[ShyGuy]

Yeah, I was halfway through the game before I noticed the ammo boxes with their upgrades.

[BlackNMild2k1]

What I like is how the enemies can hurt each other. I just had to take on 11 guys and about 4 of them were killed by their own men.

[KDR_11k]

Man, the final boss was a pushover with upgraded Tiger (the only Kusagari move I used regularly) and carabine (didn't even have more than 1-2 bullet upgrades for it and it still took about 20% or more off his health bar). Is there some kind of New Game + (you know, start over with all my upgrades)? I got a ton of money on the final level and there were no shops in it.

Generally guns have their use and you should have them ready in case **** hits the fan. When it gets hard enough that you can't just leisurely kill everything with the most profitable attacks you'll want to have your gun be useful at killing stuff.