Player Comments on The Gauntlet II: Returning Home

My attention having been drawn to this game by its being mentioned on the forum, I figured I'd see what 2005 had to offer me here at the end of 2019.

The beginning felt as if I were making some real and meaningful choices, although *why* my choices ended up with the results they did was sometimes perplexing: if I wait, I get a vine; if I go, I get a stick. Well, at least if I wait I don't get an insta game over. As we know, in 2019, that is an automatic 1 from many a reviewer.

The game uses items, but in a pretty haphazard fashion. I had berries, but I didn't see the opportunity to eat them, unless I could only "use" the item in a particular place. And it didn't matter, either, because although I was told I was hungry, the game never brought the issue of food up again. The crazy color of that berry was pretty funny though. I was looking forward to seeing what that did to me.

The game's choices were either rather obvious (go right to bed or search the area first) or a total crapshoot (stab the monster's eyes or throat?) with death awaiting you if you choose the wrong answer. This style made the game feel a good length, although requiring heavy use of the back button.

The challenges were interesting and varied, and felt suitably dangerous, especially since for much of the game you are armed pretty poorly. The prose felt all over the place, though, the writer sometimes tossing out just a few brief sentences on an armored opponent, and sometimes spending time tracing the ecology of the wasps that were affected by the ants that the laser-eye beast was feeding on. You can clearly tell where the author was feeling it and where the game just needed to get done.

The worst offense of the game was the narrator being way too cutesy with the player. ("And then, do you know what happens?...." [next page] "Nothing!") And then to do that same joke twice in a row! Not cool.

A cute diversion. They didn't really have much in the way of entertaiment in 2005 as I recall, as most of the greatest works of art had yet to be created, so I can see why this would have been a top ten for that year.

As I was decently entertained by the original Gauntlet, I decided to play G2. I left a long comment on Gauntlet I, so I was very interested to see if G2 kept the good parts and removed the bad. Let’s do this.

My initial thoughts aren’t very positive towards the image on the first page. Not only is it formatted in a funky position, it looks too real to be included in the story. I would have preferred no images or a fantasy picture used; something that fits the story better. The pictures look like a stock photos from National Geographic. Not very engaging to the story.

I will say that there was some level of nostalgia involved. The original Gauntlet starts off strong and full of danger. Once you’ve made it through, barely surviving, it’s a nice pace of things to start slow. It reintroduces me back into the world in an engaging way. Nice job.

If I remember correctly, the first Gauntlet doesn’t use items. It’s more of an obstacle run through. G2 heavily uses items. Not all of them seem very useful, but it’s a sweet little thrill when you choose to look inside a nest and find a dagger. Not to mention, the world is a safer place with one less armed bird.

Keeping with the same style as the original, G2 is like navigating through a maze with traps everywhere. Some of the death pages seem a bit random, although death isn’t really something that can be entirely rational. Shit happens, you know? Sometimes you turn a corner and death is there to greet you. What do you say to the god of death? Not today. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work in Gauntlet.

By no means is this a memorable or life-changing storygame, but it’s entertaining for the time being. I had fun navigating through, even though it seems a bit absurd the main character would find themselves in similar situation as the original Gauntlet. I suppose the author is like Han Solo in that way: Never tell him the odds!

This was a fun experience. Congratulations, you did make me laugh. The moment in the canyons with the false alarm of dark clouds was a fun punchline. The same could be said about a lot of the fight scenes. They were written to be extremely punchy for example with the fight with the knights where you had the option the hop on their horse. Although there were a lot of nonsensical dead ends like with the fight with the wolverine, the witty writing makes up for it in my opinion. The humor in the story was just my kind of humor.

When did they make this???

wow I won.

Not that bad, not bad at all.

If you’re bored might as well hit this story and it’s first part

so many choices great story

i could not figure out how to survive at all and even though i got a dagger from the magpie nest it still said that i didn't have a weapon

Cool, but very easy

lol
i got empaled

Pretty good story although I felt like only 1 way would lead to not death every time I had a choice

Good story

more fun than homework yeah

Better then the first one. A bit linear but still fun. A few spelling and Grammatical errors but nothing a quick proofread next time wouldn't catch. Good to see not EVERYTHING was enormous this time but that word was still used a bit much, I would suggest investing in a Thesaurus for future writings. All in all a fun story with a good ending.

Damn, was the sword hard to get?

cool, are you making a part three?

There where few broken links with the wolf (you click and and go left, you click left and make it?) the story was scarse but good over all not a bad game.

Great. Good use of pictures, items, and writing. My only complaint is that it was a little linear, and most of the time there was one choice that continued the story while the other ended it, and other times the outcomes of the choices didn't seem warranted. Perhaps the biggest problem however were the constant typos occuring throughout the story. With a simple proofread, they could have been cleared up. Still, this is a neat puzzle game with effort put into it.

I survived! But it's wierd..

At least the wolfs didn't eat me

A little unusual, but nevertheless it was very fun!

lol those wolves

It was a mostly one choice action. I was moaning throughout (IC) about not having food for days, weeks, and yet I had berry's in my inventory that I couldn't eat for some reason. It all seemed a bit silly with some grammatical mistakes and...well...it seemed lazy.

Great story! We'll written, lot's of suspense, and the choices are choices that you would really want to do! I really admire the making the hammer part...!

Really interesting and extremely well written.

cool, better then the first by far

pretty fun

I didn't figure out what the berry does. I didn't really like the story overall, but you did put in a lot of effort so 5.

Very good; I was ticked at first when I didn't make it home, but I'm glad that sentry saw me! Looking forward to the sequel!

Pretty fun, but some parts were a bit ridiculous. Namely, the "ridiculous resolution."

Even better than the first.

What's the fishie for?

There is a bug when you try to make a weapon while in the forest and you have all the items needed it says their is no links. Please fix.

I had a fun time playing, just wondering what were the secret levels?

Really good.

Bo approves

I haven't tried the other ones, but this one was fun!

Niiiice

better then the first one but not very long

Fun!

Whoo hoo! Best death!

I enjoyed this much better than the first Gauntlet! Good job!

Pros:
Pictures
Puzzles
Good length and tie ins with other stories in the series

Cons:
Not proofread much
A lot of random deaths
A lot of things that didn't make sense- so I'm starving but I won't eat the fish? I can fish in the lake but not hunt in the forest??

A fun survival game! Make a sequal!

this was a fun game but NOTHING is better than resses cups

3/8 Not the best game, but sweet pics.

WHAT A GAME!
WOW!
I'm speechless.
Well not really
but wow
that was absolutely incredible!
Badger, you deserve a round of applause.
GREAT GAME!

good game. funny. avrage.

MAKE gauntlet III!

A worthy sequel! (in case you're wondering, I came straight to it after I beat your first Gauntlet game.) I'll probably leave another comment later when I've beaten it.

Great game, was well done and alot of fun!

That was brilliant! I love the random rockslide. XD

Lovely pictures. A good amount of effort, well done. I got killed by a wolverine.

I didn't last long, but I enjoyed it!

its alrite but it needs to be more fun

COOL

i got the best possible ending :O sweet game

COOL! I like the weapons you can make!

to linear

Very, very good! Great storyline and pictures! Very nice!

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Great game!

too much story, too linear, and um yeah

great game

this game is really good only if this game would of came out on the consoles then this would be the best game ever

IT THE BEST

That time the game rocked but its still missing something

This game wasn't too bad but you could've done better(no offence)

It was the best. I recon you should make another



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That was an awesome game would ypu make another game

that was a REALLY good game. theres only 2 i like better!

it was good

REally a great game. couldn't find out what to do with the berries, and you have dead links both times I want to make a new weapon. Let me know when you fix those, and maybe I'll feature this.

hmmm... beat it, and it IS good, no doubt, but a bit linear for my taste. let's try again.

lol, the best possible death. That was a great game. Hope you make more as good as this.

The left pass is very desciving in secret worlds. It is still a great game. Why did you republish?

Fear

wow, very epic like lol great concept and story. however, i think you played the "then you trip over your own feet and die" thing too much. i still enjoy the first one more.

Not quite as good as the first one but I liked the advance game-esque however you couldent use items, in your inventory by clicking on them. 6/10

This game was soooooooo interesting and one of the most coolest games I have ever played. The ideas were unique and actually made me like games even more. :)

will need more time to play this. looks fantastic. will play through soon.
march

Just checking to see if a feature I included in the ending works.

Really good game. Expect some things similar when "What REALLY Goes On In Hawaii" comes out.

I tried winning the other way! Grood. I mean good. And great. Great and good.

I liked it a whole lot but I liked the lake then canyon part the best

Very nice sequal. Make another one.

All right, the wait is finally over! The second installment in the "Gauntlet" series is out! I hope you enjoy it!

Also, remember: there are not 1, but 2 secret endings! Try to find the secret areas that unlock them!