Chosen 2

pretty short and casual I found it pretty relaxing

Tenebrous Deathbringer wanders through an RE mansion with his mom [in bikini armour], his dad [a weeaboo fuckboy] and some random third girl for party balance purposes. I was prepared for this one to suck compared to the first one but they did the correct thing and gave the men armour damage sprites even if they're nowhere near as gratuitous as the girls' which is way more than I was expecting.

It's still mid RPGmaker slop though, it shouldn't have been its own game and definitely not one more expensive than the first which has about triple the content [its like eating wet cardboard but it still pretended to be a jrpg]. But honestly it was just endearing enough in its cheesiness for me to want to know how the story ended, and it continued being corny and cliche as hell but with some genuinely funny moments, so its 60c well spent.

RPG Maker strikes again!

Chosen 2 is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction.

As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development.

Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers.

It's unclear if this RPG Maker asset flip was ever a serious or genuine attempt at making a game... the terrible writing is all there but this is shallower and more badly written than the average RPG Maker asset flip... and that's a terrible thing indeed.

The game is very very short and can be finished in 2 hours. Developers have at least some responsibility to provide enough content to make a game last more than 2 hours if they're serious about providing something of value to gamers. There's less content here than some free game demos, with only 3 boss fights, and it's significantly smaller than the first RPG Maker asset flip from this developer.

You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Chosen 2 has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for finding your mother in the game, trivial to achieve, but less than 7 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch.

So, should you buy this game?

Chosen 2 has the ridiculous price of around $5 USD (FIVE BUCKS FOR A 2 HOUR LONG RPG MAKER ASSET FLIP!), it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Shadow Warrior", "Dishonored" or "The Witcher 2". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Chosen 2

Pros:

Cons:

Other Drawbacks:

• Engaging gameplay mechanics.
  
• Immersive storyline with well-developed characters.
  
• Variety of gameplay experiences.
  

• Technical issues such as bugs and glitches.
  
• Reliance on in-game purchases.
  
[*]Visuals and graphics may not meet expectations.

Oh, you young man may not know, in fact, games that as we ordinary call "Hentai" could not purchase in steam in the past.
So, the men who want "lewd" were should to choose titles like this, to console themselves with a bit of nude illustration.
Of course, that does not mean the name of "chosen" came from our choices in the past.
But, if you want to experience good old time that could not buy Hentai games, will be good to make a choice for this title.
However I'd like to refrain.

The first episode was a pleasant rpg but this one is awful. There's nothing good in it. It's more expensive but shorter, the combat system is changed and isn't well balanced

Very short follow up to chosen 1. It ran great on my steam deck and kept me occupied for a while. Artwork was very nice -

Ending of the game is bugged, after defeating the final boss a text screen pops up that says "One Week Later"

Then the Game Over screen appears and the game returns to title screen.

Just like other reviews, If you want your happy ending, here it is.
Grab it on discount because it's way too short for the price they are asking.

If you ask if they have improved on the first game, on the contrary, I would say that they have fallen behind, especially in terms of story. There are also problems in the general structure of the game, for example, there are only 3 bosses in the game and their difficulty is unbalanced. Don't get me wrong, it's not hard, on the contrary, it's too easy. In terms of enemy diversity, I think it is a game that repeats itself too much despite being a short game. But despite all these criticisms, I don't want to give a negative review because I can say that the game generally satisfied me due to the low price I paid. But I recommend you to evaluate it by taking these criticisms into consideration when buying it.

You start off right where the first game ended, back at level 3 with no items or abilities. You immediately lose all sense of progression from the first game and have to build back up, but never getting to the point where you ended the first game. You go through several fights that don't seem to matter at all until you get to the final battle. In this battle your team is extremely under-prepared for the fight and die easily, but can still win solely because of an extremely over-powered attack you receive right before the battle...only to have the game bug out and give a game over screen after you kill the final boss and go into a cut-scene.

Yeah, I suppose I'll have to join the long list of people that find the price of this game rather insulting. After all, this game basically boils down to a single dungeon and can be readily beaten in under two hours even if you go into the game blind. Which means your paying double the price of the original for half as much content effectively.

On the plus side the price of items/equipment in this game does feel a bit more reasonable but the amount of items/equipment you can buy has been greatly reduced which just furthers everyone's complaints about how this didn't need to be it's own game.

To make matters worse the combat system is both better and worse at the same time. On the plus side the effectiveness of sleep has been lowered so it's way more difficult to stun lock bosses and regular enemies into submission. On the other hand the few enemies that can cast group spells in this game are near impossible to beat since they'll readily tear your entire party down with just two hits. And a few enemies like the mimic can cast these sorts of spells multiple times in a single turn. So you can get party wiped rather easily in this game.

It's a first RPGmaker game (or a second one to be acurate). So don't expect too much but it's not a bad one and i actually see it at 0.49 euros with reduction. At that price is an ok deal (not the best but defintly not the worst)

Chosen 2 is actually just the last 2 hours of Chosen. There isn't anything wrong with this game outside of the length. Most of the game takes place in the Underworld which has some new maps but there aren't too many new places to explore. There was also the addition of a save point that filled up your MP and HP which was useful but not really needed. Overall, not a bad game and since I bought this on sale I really can't complain.

short and sweet took me around 3 hours each "Chosen" to beat not bad and this one has a concrete end to Edge's story no twist or anything.. great job developer!

I really, really had lots of fun with The Chosen 1, so obviously, gotta play two. Besides, I had to know what happens to the people. Well... I would consider this to be a DLC of sorts. You just played the first one, got the cliffhanger: you play the DLC and put things together. It is really short. I almost got 5 hours, but that's because I just like to grind for fun. If you just keep going, it might be less than that.

It was interesting to see the new and the old skills and what characters would pop up. Once again, I am not counting the spelling/grammar, because this isn't school. You understand everything anyway.

The characters are still well drawn and I like the animations. Now you can see the armor dissolve as your characters gets hit. REALLY love looking at Kenshi/Akuma... yeah... Oh right, well the game throws you in and tells you what happened prior. Then you face off three really hardcore enemies (one type of enemy). IF you survive, then you can pretty much decimate everything after that. That's amusing.

On Ayaka's description it reads "Ayaka's servant". I know its a mistake, but it was funny, as well as the part with trying to bring back pets.

There are a lot of plot holes, but ya know what? Its actually pretty cool to fill in the gaps and "guess" as to what might have actually happened or try explaining the situation.

After you leave, the characters and skills change and bam! Nearly end of game. I was mostly disappointed that there was no more exploration and items and much more conclusions. I will make sure to write one though. :)

Should you play it? That's up to you. If you treat this as a short DLC / Want to know what happens to the characters / Have some more random fun, then maybe. If you are seeking a longer RPG, with much more complicated gameplay: then it wont really work.

Overall, this is my first neutral review, as it can go both ways. I still enjoyed and had fun and that's very important. So thank you for the short game (DLC) and the cuties. Heh Heh. :D ;) =)

Not enough Smut, a majority of the game is grinding, there's like 3 armor and 3 weapons for 4 people.

Although I apprieciate knowing the end of the story..... This could have been a great game like the 1st one but because it is so short it's as if the developer made this as a APRIL'S FOOLS day gag. I have been playing rpgs for over 40 years and I must say this is the very 1st 1 I have beaten in under 2 hrs. Such a great disappointment this was . This game if you can call it that was not worth 2 cents. The developer & steam should be ashame of themselves. I would NOT recommend others to waste their time on this!

what makes RPG games good :
a free world
side quests
characters to talk too
good story
many customizations

what does this game give you:
the end chapter of a good game

First things first

YES I recommend the game for those looking for easy achievements, and anyone who loves looking at semi-hentai women in bikini's saving the world

But the first enemy I ran into I was killed. not only did they hit for between 100-200 dps but each enemy hit me 2 times each and most battles are against 3 enemies at a time....it's absolutely ridiculous.... Enemies are so overpowered.....or maybe its the fact that the characters are pretty much naked without armor to protect them....so I guess the enemies hitting hard makes sense right?

the story is short, not really interesting as I just mashed the X buttom on my controller to skip everything dialogue related....

as for the final boss, just let EDGE the main character, use his strongest special attack and have the 3 other women just use hi-potions on everyone until EDGE deals the final blow to the final boss....this was the strategy I had to use since the characters were so weak and hit for just over 55 dps and the boss hits you for 500-600 dps with each attack, killing you pretty much in two turns.

all in all I think I got this game for like 50 cents maybe even less...almost positive i had a coupon for like 90% off or something...but regardless...if you are a perfectionist and achievement hunter I guess its worth the price just to keep up appearances on your steam profile

Game beaten in 1.9 Hours

This game sucks.
The story continues right after the first game and is built to reuse a lot of old assets(characters, maps, ...). I usually wouldn't mind about the story in general, but every character just acts unusual. It's not at all convincing how they act/react. An example:
The loved one of the main character is in critical danger and is about to die. He just stands there. The question comes up what he's thinking about. An okay answer would be "I'm unsure whether I did the right thing by killing our enemy,
because she offered to save her." oder even "I could never tell her I loved her." He says "I'm thinking of how useless I am."
" instead.
However the gameplay itself is anything but great, too. The first monsters you encounter are pretty tough, so you might just level up a bit. After doing so for some minutes every fight for the next hour is pretty easy, but very annoying. You might eventually come to a point when you can buy stuff and quickly find out that you can buy a "revive" for 60 crystals, but sell it at 120g. This means that you can farm up some crystals for the only time you will actually buy something. The equipment you've just bought is better than almost anything you'll find later on in the game.
The level/map design itself is built in a annoying way. Lots of mazes where you have to push boulders(it's not even a puzzle element, it's just pushing them forward a bit), holes and stairs with no purpose but to send you back a bit and checkpoints every two screens. However they are pointless, because you can heal yourself with potions/spells and save the game at any given time in the menu.
The potions themselves are pretty weird, too. You start out with a few hundred hp per character and potions that heal 500hp. This is fine. At the absolute end of the game your main character might have about 800hp and you will have hi-potions that heal 2500hp and potions that "heal your full health".

TLDR:
The game clearly was not tested, is mostly annoying due to level design/boring fights and the story does not add a lot to the first game. Easy achievements, short game, not worth the 4,99€ by far. This might as well be a free add-on, but it still wouldn't be "good".

I bought this game because it was on sale for 49ct and I played the first Chosen game. I wasn't expecting much and I wasn't suprised. There are only 3 bossfights, the final boss included and also a "hidden" boss which is not too much off a problem. The only real problem in this game is to fight the zombies although they drop a good amount of experience and gold they are just annoying to fight against. For the story it takes place after the events of the first Chosen game. That's about it. You try to get back to the real world and fight alongside your family while doing so. This game is even shorter than the previous game which would be okay, if the price wouldn't be 4,99€. Also the only time the enemies change is on the graveyard. So you just face the same enemies during the next 2 hours. Also most of them are weak to fire and are just weak in general and some of them, for example the zombies, are just too strong compared to the other enemies. In conclusion I would only suggest to buy this game on sale and if you played the previous Chosen game. It isn't worth the full price, as the game feels just like an expansion to the first game as former reviews stated already.

To best sum this up, this is what should have been the previous game's final section/dungeon packaged as its own separate game... at an asking price of 2.5 times more than the original's.

Okay, so to preface this, I wasn't coming in expecting high art. After all, I've slogged through the schlock that was the first "Chosen" game; I know what I should generally expect from this game as far as presentation is concerned. I bought this mainly to provide myself closure to the cliffhanger the last game ended off at. However, when you put out a completely linear experience that's even shorter than its predecessor and sell it at more than double the price, that's something worthy of being pointed out. Loudly.

Aside from that, if you've played the prequel, then you have pretty much played this game, as it has almost of its mechanics, quirks, and issues. Generic RPG story, bland cast, basic RPG Maker battle system. At the very least, character portraits during conversation between the main characters are relatively ta-- oh wait, no. There's gratuitous clothing damage to their portraits, which now appear in battle in lieu of their sprites, to compensate! This must be where the developer chose to invest what little ability they had to innovate, instead of using that effort to write a story that can stand on its own without the need to remember its predecessor's in detail. Bravo. /s (And before anyone even dares to counter this jab with a certain portion of my own game library, let me just say that most of those games are upfront about who they're targeting. This game, on the other hand, has these fan-service elements while trying -- and failing -- to be taken completely seriously.)

Overall, this really isn't worth it at full price. Hell, it's hard to recommend this at any price even if you lower your standards a substantial amount. If you know what you're doing, you're going to breeze through this in just barely over an hour and feel as if you've had an incomplete experience. Which could have been mitigated by switching to the previous game's party every now and then while they're doing things of importance, but whatever. If you're really curious as to how the previous game's cliffhanger is resolved, then go for it... but I'd recommend you at least wait for a sale.

P.S. To this RPG Maker game publishers that engage in this practice (which this did at its initial release), please stop citing established JRPGs and series without context in order to drum up sales. That doesn't work. Never has and never will. Not without good writing or your own assets. Try to sell us your games on their own merits.

You've said u wanted happy end? No problem!