Darksiders II

            Okay so here we are again, but with the sequel of Darksiders!  If anybody has played one or two then please feel free to express, which you considered better.  Personally, when I first played Darksiders II, I was so hyped that it just led to disappointment.  The intro of this sequel had no hook in it.  Apparently your character Death is the strongest of the Four Horsemen, and his story is very deep compared to his brother War.

            As the story of Death unfolds, you learn that he and his other three brothers were nephlim.  Death was instructed by the Charred Council to kill his other nephlim brothers, but Death never truly killed them.  Instead Death slayed them all and kept their souls in a bottle, in return Death’s nickname became the kin slayer.  Now I don’t know about you, but that is a truly deep fictional story.  Death loved his brothers and in the game you can tell by what he says and his body language. 

            Now the only reason as to why I hated and loved the sequel of this game was 1.) Hated it because I was really hoping to see Death with his brother War, but I understood why that couldn’t happen, 2.) Loved it because Death’s skills are unmatched, he is literally the coolest character to ever been introduced. 

            Deaths main challenger is a former nephlim once slayed by Death himself; Corruption.  Corruption is a pain because he literally takes the innocent and finds the very corruption within that person and turns it against them for his will.  Death’s sins caught up with him and affected other universes.  As Death is trying to find Corruption he is also trying to find a way to free Wars name.  As all of this is taking place on some other universe, it explains that War was on earth.  It’s a little confusing in the beginning of the game because it’s literally a huge puzzle of events missing and you just have to piece the pieces together.

            As the story continues and you fight each boss to gain level and new weapons the story unfolds a new event that leads Death closer and closer to finding and challenging Corruption.  Once you arrive at the Tree Of Life then everything gets really intriguing!  You’re presented with three portals: Heaven, Hell, and I’ll leave the third one as a surprise.  Once you finish the events of Heaven and Hells portal you retrieve a stone from the Heavens boss battle and Hells boss battle.  I’m not going to lie I was very frustrated and at times felt like throwing my controller at the television.

            Once you gather these stones you can open the final portal; Corruptions portal.  Once I opened that portal I didn’t want to step foot in there, because then I knew I would destroy Corruption and the game would be over.  I felt a sense of sorrow that the game was coming to a conclusion.  Anyway, once you step in the portal and challenge and beat Corruption, Death meets Crow father, which is introduced in the beginning of the game.  In the beginning Crow father shatters Deaths bottle of souls, and the souls breached Deaths chest and unified with him.

            Death was left with a decision to make.  The decisions Death were offered were: resurrect mankind, or the nephlim.  Death said he would do anything for his brother War.  Death steps up to the edge and takes off his mask, handing it to Crow father.  Death then sacrifices himself along with the nephlim souls he carries to resurrect mankind.  In the end it goes back to the first darksiders and shows War speaking with Uriel and the seventh seal War broke to release his other three brothers.