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>>2681171
Not them and while I don't hate Hexen 2, I did find it a bit disappointing after Hexen 1. Here's what I think:

>Empty levels
There's not a whole lot of enemies in Hexen 2. It feels like it took the Quake 1 approach and makes you fight 1-3 enemies at a time max, rather than hordes of 10+.

>Poor/boring enemy design
Both mechanically and aesthetically, the monsters feel bland (imps, golems, and spiders) or flat out unfun to fight (skull wizards, gorgons, fallen angels). On the flip side, Knight Archers look great and work well as a cannon fodder style enemy that actually dangeous, unlike ettin or the Heretic golems.

>Uninspired level themes
Heretic and Hexen had nice fantasy settings to explore, Hexen 2 had European villages, Rome, Egypt, and such. No creativity whatsoever.

>Lazy weapons
A good number of the arsenal are taken straight from Hexen 1 but somehow are less interesting or fun to use. Take the Paladin, his first 3 weapons are straight copies of the Fighter. Also every class starting with a melee weapon (exception for the Demoness, but she was added later) and ending with a staff is just boring, no diversity.

>the music is shit
Crude but true. Any original song, as there were lots of remixes from Heretic and Hexen, was ass.

>>1671867
I was 6/7 when I was playing hexen 2 as a kid. I never had the full game back in 1997. I had a special demo that contained all of blackmarsh and ended after defeating famine. Those stone golems scared me the most. I would panic every time I heard those loud stomping noises they made.

>>1641596
Hexen I or II?