The plot and story elements also seem to be a little tighter this time around, with numerous nods to the first instalment and a generally ominous overtone present throughout. This means that if you’re heading to a place filled with lava but don’t have a lava-resistance skill enabled, you can take a trip back to the workshop and shift your abilities around to suit your needs. The best part about this is that you can remove cogs that are being spent on one ability, and then place them on another whenever you like. The minerals you collect will enable you to level up the equipment you’ve unlocked up to that point, with the cogs then being able to add extra qualities to your gear on top. The goodies you receive from these puzzles, which are usually small cogs, can be traded in for upgrades in what is essentially a skill tree. Many puzzles - as enjoyable as they are - are simple enough to blast through in one or two tries, but more than a handful had us grinning at the suddenly cheeky design, forcing us to utilise all of our available skills and equipment in grand swoops of platforming excellence like an overly excitable version of Batman. Rooms are scattered around the mines containing puzzles that will reward you a prize upon completion and, while this idea was present in the first game, they’ve been taken to a whole other level here. It is perhaps the gameplay and level design itself where things have been most significantly revamped, however.
In-game options allow you to display plot-point markers on your map to direct you if you’d like the assistance, but you can just as easily turn these off and be greeted with a sturdier challenge that will present you with a much heavier focus on solo exploration. Let’s take the customisation possibilities as an example the game’s difficulty remains on the slightly-too-easy side of things for the most part, but you can alter your experience according to how you’d like to play. This could easily have become an all-too-familiar and lazy sequel, but that couldn’t be further from the truth while most aspects of the game draw upon its predecessor, almost every single area that could have been improved has been. Just like the first game, you’ll be digging your way through deep mines to reach specific plot points, with the same gameplay loop of ‘explore, collect minerals, and then return to the surface to cash in and upgrade’ still perfectly intact. Rather than simply saying that the game feels ‘bigger’, though, we’d actually describe it as being refined.
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Right from the off, this sequel makes you feel warm and welcome in the familiar glow of the franchise’s world, yet everything appears to be on a much bigger scale even from its earliest moments, SWD2 hints at a larger world full of more characters to greet you and more ways to level up your very own heroine. Picking right up where SteamWorld Dig left off, you’ll be taking control of Dorothy (the shop-owner from the first game) as she sets off on an exploration to find her good pal, Rusty. Of course, the only question that remains is whether or not this new port is worth your time and money.īefore we get stuck into any comparisons between this version and the one on Switch, though, let’s take a look at the actual game itself. SteamWorld Dig 2, which is perhaps unsurprisingly the sequel to the rather wonderful SteamWorld Dig, has now found its way to the 3DS after an initial launch on Switch last September. Image & Form’s SteamWorld franchise has become somewhat of a household name among the Nintendo eShops as of late, with games spread across Switch, 3DS, and Wii U gathering almost nothing but praise from players and critics alike.
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