Okay, but apart from the complete destruction of the artstyle, what else is in store for this remake? tacked in unneeded gameplay features from sas3 such as the arena's edge having one-hit-kill spikes and a shitty skill tree at the level up screen, also everything costing a billion stamina so i hope you enjoy hearing snooze.wav! this stuff isn't needed, the original was fun as it was. everything else just looks worse or less practical, like the shops which have no item previews now because they just ported that terribly ugly system from swords and sandals 3, so instead of seeing what the item looks like and buying it, you get a classy text list in arial.

none of the new art that was added/changed looks like 'swords and sandals 2', the only thing resembling the original game is that they recycled the gladiator art. obviously, this is nothing new, as the complete butcher of the franchise's artstyle started with 3, that's where the game went from looking like a charismatic and artstyle consistent flash game to looking like complete dogshit. remember how the npcs were all animated and when you left the shop without buying anything they'd get angry at you and show expressions? well yeah, they all got replaced by low quality jpegs of a drawing that's supposed to represent them, that have no animation, and they're in a complete different artstyle. One thing that i always loved about flash games was how consistent the artstyle was with everything being made in vectors, here you'll find nothing of the sort. It's the same swords and sandals 2 we all loved! except it has nothing that made the original flash game good.

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