I'm going to get it out the way before the inevitable comparisons are made - Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm looks a lot like Zelda. Whether it's the dungeon-crawling gameplay, the radial item selection menus taken directly from Skyward Sword or the blue-cloaked, sword-wielding protagonist, Oceanhorn 2 wears its Nintendo reverence on its sleeve. Now these tiresome parallels have been drawn, does any of this mean I'm any less excited for Oceanhorn 2" When there's a hookshot involved, that's certainly a stupid question. In their sequel to one of 2013's best games in the original Oceanhorn, Cornfox & Bros have gone to the next level to create a beautiful cel-shaded world that looks unlike anything we've seen on the App Store to date. With the promise of some stunning locales to explore and a variety of tools to take down the terribly ominous bandits sprawled across the land, Oceanhorn 2 is the epitome of the premium mobile title, and the new GDC demo trailer is another reason to get extremely excited.
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One particularly interesting aspect that I think distinguishes Oceanhorn 2 from other similar titles is its more nuanced and in-depth emphasis on combat. Rather than enemies taking a few hits to go down, or instead of them just having a generic health bar, it seems your opponents have both life and also stamina points that do not drain as quickly as you'd expect. With an arsenal that offers guns as well as your tradi...