So after the first game I needed to play the sequel taking place roughly six months after the last game with an upcoming Total Eclipse of the Sun. So playing the intro it looked awfully familiar and then it hits me. I played this game as a kid when my family switched game consoles with our neighbor, we borrowed theirs Playstation 1 and they borrowed our N64. One of the game was this one. I didn't play much of it since right at the beginning it throws two things I didn't like as a kid, a rather big venomous spider and a timed event of the spider and a fire burning stressing me out. So I didn't get further than the very first screen before quiting. Nothing like that this time. And I believe that the timed event didn't exist, it gave you enough time walking around after dealing with the spider that the house would have burnt down twice. I don't know if it was due to me having a cold, but I found this game to be so damn funny at times. The mama's boy general that tries to impress Nico by putting on some softcore movie in the background and then his dictator mother shows up (no really, she is the dictator of the small south american country your in. Also the retconning that was a rather nice touch. In the original you had Inspector Moue who worked for chief Rosso that after a trip to Syria is told to you as being dead. Without telling you how. Apparently the story writers couldn't think of anything good about that so they made him go into hiding, presumably when he found out that Rosso was one of the Neo-Templars.
The story this time around is that Nico is looking into this South American drug smuggling ring, but she gets her hand on an ancient Mayan artifact instead. You decide to investigate by going to this professor in Mayan history and there Nico is promptly kidnapped so it's up to you to rescue her... after you rescued yourself that is. All this leads on a quest against time to collect three magic stones so that you can keep an ancient Mayan god of destruction trapped in the Smoking Mirror so that he wont end the world during the eclipse. This is also a better plot than Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Another thing is that when i think back, damn, there dies people to the left and right in this series and in rather gruesome ways as well. In the first game this Indianan Jones look-alike dies of dehydration and starvation locked in a cave, people are blown up, thrown of trains and hit by cars and in this several gets shot, one Mayan Indian gets disintegrated, someone falls to their deaths and the bad guy gets stabbed by the evil god he tried to summon before you send him back into the Smoking Mirror and then the ending picture rest on the god looking out of the mirror as it wants to say "just you wait" (this game was released 15 years before the Mayan calender ended in 2012 so it could have tied in to that mythology).
Sunrise has gone, freezing up the fires.
Sunrise has gone numbing our desires.
Total Eclipse by Iron Maiden
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