The wall shakes again; citizens on the other side knowing they should be running, but they’re too scared to move. Rock and dust crash down, and a hole appears. The wall has been breached and danger is pouring in. The citizens have been shaken from their shock and are running, but many of them won?t escape. They?ll end up dinner, swallowed whole or brutally bitten in half by the terrifyingly malformed, naked, grinning titans–massive beasts that seem to only exist to terrorize and devour humanity. With one look directly into the camera, there?s a rush of nightmares that only the eerie titans can provide.
If that paragraph sounds familiar, that’s because I’ve written it before. That’s exactly how I began my Attack on Titan review back in 2016, and it’s an apt way to start this one off too. Attack on Titan 2 isn’t quite the new game you might think it is. Instead of starting where things left off at the end of the first game (which covers the first season of the anime), Attack on Titan 2 starts all over at the beginning again. When I interviewed Producer Hisashi Koinuma at a preview event earlier this year, he indicated that the tutorial would act as a sort of recap of the events of the original stories, which is true if you consider three out of the five chapters of the campaign to be a tutorial.
The majority of Attack on Titan 2 retreads the same path as the first game, with only the last two chapters breaching into season two of ...