I was massively disappointed by this game when I first played it. I loved the first Barbarian game, a really fun one-on-one fighting game based on swinging swords instead of using punches and kicks. Of course, everyone who played it fondly remembers the decapitation move, even though it was hard to execute HA HA WHAT A GREAT PUN.

But the sequel was a slow, difficult to control, slow, navigationally confusing, slow, weird action action adventure game that was also slow, did I mention the slow bit? You kind of walk awkwardly through a bunch of screens – you could run, but it would usually wind up with you dying quickly – that had big pits or big monsters or what have you, and then you got lost after two minutes and then loaded something else.

Oh! The graphics were lovely, though. Giant monsters looked cool on the screen, and the hero characters were well crafted and animated, but damn it I just wanted Barbarian, but more of that, you know?

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