However, during the last third of the game, I found backtracking to be quite tedious, due to how windy Jericho City is. The game takes place entirely within Jericho City and has you finding shortcuts and pathways back through each area. But, you aren’t going to grow attached to many of them, if any.īut, The Surge 2’s world-building is saved by some varied and interesting environments. Dialogue Options offer a brief glimpse into the character’s lives before the Quarantine in Jericho City. On top of that, very few of the quests actually provide any kind of satisfying ending. The later steps of the same quest ended up falling a little flat, with me hunting down items for the person. Unfortunately, whilst the people are more interesting, the majority of these quests are fetch-quests and I found only the initial interaction with the quest giver to be intriguing. These characters are actual people living in the city and have their own lives, such as a lady who asks you to track down a debt collector and stop him coming after her. The majority of these characters will offer quests for you to complete which outnumber the first game and are far more interesting. The game offers far more characters to interact with when compared to the first game. That serves as the core throughline in The Surge 2’s narrative, but the characters you meet along the way help build the world of The Surge 2 infinitely more than the dull, lifeless factory of the first game did.

Echoes appear throughout the districts of Jericho City and act as waypoints guiding you along the main story path.

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