Line #10 YMMV/OverlordII


1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
2	** How are the Overlord's feelings towards his wives? Does he love them or only see them as trophies? Or alternatively, he loves his childhood friend, while the other two are trophies?
3	** The two instances of CuttingOffTheBranches from the first game adds some in hindsight to the previous Overlord. Did he save the Elves from going extinct out of pity, EvenEvilHasStandards, or was it just [[spoiler: his lingering kindness as a Hero (who it's implied had a friendship with Oberon, the Elves' hero) coming through]]? And did he [[spoiler: pick Rose over Velvet because he genuinely loved her? Or was it just an act of PragmaticVillainy in keeping the smarter, saner and more strategy-focused of the sisters with him over her dumber, more emotion driven sibling?]]
4	* BestLevelEver: The stealth run with the green minions. Bonus points goes to the fact that it gave a lot of people the feeling of playing ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''... ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' style.
5	* CharacterTiers:
6	** For some, there are mounts that are considered better than others.
7	*** Almost everyone agrees that the Wolf mounts are miles ahead of the Spider and Salamander mounts in utility, and are considered to be the best choice for the final battle.
8	*** Salamanders form the middle ground where they make the Red Minions forces to be reckoned with, but require the most micro work to reap the benefits.
9	*** The Spider mounts come off as the worst where they seem to not benefit greatly to the Green Minions role in assassination and suffer from very odd wall-climbing mechanics that are universally hated amongst the players. They are considered the worst choice for the final battle.
10	* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:[[ItsAllAboutMe Florian Greenheart]] is a non-magic elf determined to accrue magic power for himself without regard for the consequences. His first attempt to steal the magic of the Tower Heart following the disappearance of the Third Overlord causes a massive explosion and fallout that scars the land and leads to widespread fear and hatred of magic. Florian takes advantage of both to rise to power under the guise of [[TheEmperor Emperor Solarius]], leader of the [[AntiMagicalFaction Glorious Empire]], while continuing to feign loyalty to his own people and the benevolent Queen Fay. Florian orchestrates a GenocideFromTheInside on his people and all magical creatures in the land, using his legions and even the Fourth Overlord as mere tools to gather the magical energies of all fay creatures in his palace before ultimately revealing his plans to the Overlord just in time to absorb all the collected magic his forces gathered and [[OneWingedAngel transform into the hideous Devourer]]. Even in this form, Florian shows no care for his subjects or remorse for his actions, concerned only with fulfilling his deluded dreams of godhood.]]
11	* CrossesTheLineTwice: You can herd a flock of baby seals to clear a minefield. ''Glorious.''
12	-->'''Gnarl:''' This is why survival of the fluffiest has never caught on, Sire. They're just too stupid.
13	* {{Fanon}}: All that is known about how the Overlord started living in Nordberg is that he was found outside the gates with no mention of his actual age. Many fanfic writers use this to show the Overlord being raised [[spoiler:by Rose]] for a few years prior to being left in Nordberg. Also many pretty much accept that Kelda is the Overlord's love interest even though he doesn't treat her any differently than the other Mistresses, while also giving her a FreudianExcuse that the townspeople were also cruel to her during the TimeSkip to explain why she was happy to leave them to either be enslaved or killed.
14	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: A lot of reviews boiled down to this when compared with the first game.
15	* ScrappyMechanic:
16	** The controls for moving a group of minions, particularly on the PC version, are just plain awful.
17	** The fact that the gnomes can run away with Dark Crystals. There's a Dark Crystal early on in the Nordberg Sanctuary that becomes PermanentlyMissableContent if a gnome manages to escape with it back to one of its burrows.
18	* ThatOneBoss: The BossBattle against the Spider Queen is this. Figuring out how the fight even works at first can stump newcomers for awhile, and the fight is well-known to drag depending on how well the player keeps an equipped team of Minions alive. Not to mention the repetitive nature of the fight by always having to flip the Queen over as the only means to inflict actual damage on her.
19	* ThatOneLevel:
20	** Any of the catapult levels. Catapults aim like ass, take a long time to windup and once fired the camera follows the rock until it lands, during which time the game will still be going, so your target will just move out of the way, requiring re-aiming.
21	** Traversing the wall-maze with the spider mounted green minions to work the Spider Queen's elevator rubs A LOT of people the wrong way. Much harder for PC users due to the game being developed around consoles where the controls are already quite frustrating.
22	* ThatOneSidequest: A few annoying ones.
23	** The prime offender being the 1000 gnome genocide SideQuest if you can stomach the patience to continuously mutilate the little guys. It gets worse when you start encountering the gnomes that actually [[GoddamnedBats FIGHT BACK]]!
24	** Another good candidate is the 100 civilian enslavement SideQuest for Everlight. It seems simple at first, but you soon realize that you can't complete the mission in one go, because a portion of the town is closed off until you can activate the Elf Rebellion SideQuest later on. These elves however, all count towards the 100 civilians for the previous mentioned quest so completing the elf rebellion while also trying to keep the elf rebellers alive to complete the civilian enslavement quest can be quite a struggle, because the roadblocks you come across during the Elf Rebellion quest always seems to get one or two elves unintentionally killed; forcing a restart for the level.
25	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The Overlord's drastic decrease in spells compared to the amount of spells found in the first game. The lack of spell variety for the player/Overlord was greatly missed.
26	* UnderusedGameMechanic:
27	** With only 3 spells available for the player this time around, the gameplay surrounding the Overlord's spellcasting takes a major step back in this game compared to the original.
28	** The Blue Minions never get a mount compared to the Browns, Greens, and Reds. The game even had some watery monsters that could have served as some sort of watery mount, such as giant frogs. The development team once claimed that they had an idea to give the Blue Minions swordfish mounts.
29	*** While on the topic of the minion mounts, there's never a time in the game where you get to use more than one type, which could have made for some interesting world puzzles that required the usage of multiple mounts at once.

Context YMMV / OverlordII