Power Stone 2 Review

Power Stone 2
Rating: Teen
4 player

Story: The Power Stones are being collected again, and every warrior travels to a mysterious castle for their own reasons. Not much of a plot but a hellofa lot more than most fighting games. 6/10

Control: This is better than some 2D fighting games i've played, you get where you want, the buttons are smartly designed, and very customizable. Special moves are either two buttons together, or one if you want to set it like that. Running, jumping, hanging from a post, grabbing a giant squeaky mallet and bashing your friends upside the head, all easy and quick to do...fun also. I never had any problems really. 9/10

Voice acting, Sound effects, and Music: voices are cool, announcer is wierd, music is interesting but nothing to write home about, and smashing your buddy over the head with a squeaky mallet sounds just like I thought it would. 7/10

Gameplay: Now this is some fun &$#^, lotsa different characters to choose, each with a super form, good amount of levels, and instead of three rounds you have one round with three areas, in most cases its a starting area, that turns into a moving transition area, and into a final area if you make it that far, aside from the secret levels and boss levels and submarine level their all like that. TONS of weapons, TONS AND TONS OF FREAKING WAYS TO BEAT YOUR FRIEND SENCELESS AND TAKE HIS POWER STONES......good holesome fun aint it? Though sometimes it seems less like a fighting game and more like a bout of Streets of Rage 3, while not a bad thing, it doesnt always feel like a fighting game. You may notice this after you dodge some boulders, jump over some traps, then grab a beartrap and make your best friend not make it to the door before he's trapped and fall over a cliff, then you forget it as he gets a gattling gun and you dodge the bullets long enough to get in close and combo his sneaky butt across the room. 9/10

Replay Value: Hmmm...lemme think, multiple modes of play, with lots of characters (who have no individual endings by the way...blech) on a lot of difficulties that actually change how the game is played. Plus there are modes, secrets, and items to earn, not many of the first two, just a couple of things to mess around with, 2 secret characters and 3 secret levels, not including the boss levels. But the items..did I mention there were a lot of items? Cause there are....TONS PEOPLE! A whole item shop devoted to buying, selling, and creating items and cards (used to make more items) attacking items, defensive items, healing items, and items that follow you around and spit fire at your enemies, does that rule or not? and this will take you a while, unless you guy a strategy guide......and it'll still take you a while to earn them, buy them, or get the ingredients to make them, which you earn in a whole seperate mode where you play the game and it saves the money you earn and items you use. 10/10

Overall: Definately an interesting game, not as good as the first one in terms of fights, but still groundbreaking and fun and beautiful and violent, all good thingies. 87/100