TL;DR - COC2 is fine definitely not better than COC. Less choices and less freedom for the player. Uninfluenced world and people. Too many writers leading to inconsistent tone and theming. Paraphrasing a quote from Dougdoug COC2 would be a "big bowl of candy bars with chocolate sauce all over it, tasty on its own and if combined still tasty but a mess and I would prefer the candy bars by itself." Also too many cooks in the kitchen can apply as well.
I want to make it clear that I played and enjoyed the first COC, so most if not all my feelings on COC2 will have some influence from the first COC. I don't think COC2 is bad by any means but if you take it in comparison to the first one you will most definitely find it lacking.
Let's talk about the gameplay and I will be honest it's bad, in my opinion there should be minimal to no gameplay to porn games, exploration feels like a chore moving in between every single room just to get to the point of interest. They didn't even have a way to quickly return to the fast travel until 2022 which is 4 years after the first release. Combat is garbage, bottom of the barrel crap that should be entirely removed. I am sure there are people who enjoy it but it's so slow each character has an attack and that takes up several lines of text, so eventually you might get fights where both sides have at least 4-5 characters each and make the combat log long for no reason. Combat in COC was faster both because it didn't expand beyond you hit X with Y for Z damage and they represented multiple enemies as a single group with increased damage and health. Also classes for your character are overly complex and feel like they barely add anything to your character. I don't see a point to differentiate the classes if you can just acquire almost all the magic and skills from people, just leave us as a blank canvas as COC.
The writing, I don't claim to know anything about writing but from a reader's perspective its not the greatest and I think this is the worst part. As a sex text based game the smut writing has to be top tier, so good that your brain can imagine the scene happening, I don't find myself enjoying the writing as much. And I can't tell if it's because they appear to have by the wiki's count about 45 writers writing for this game at once which causes the writing to be not enjoyable. How do you ensure quality writing from all people involved, from my perspective it feels like they don't ensure quality. I am not sure how to word it but when I am RP or wanting to put myself into the PC many scenes just don't have the feel like I am the one making decisions. If for instance you want to view it as a third party I would whole heartily agree that most if not all scenes are good but not for people RP.
The story, i think is a sore point for many people. The story is to put it bluntly in my opinion not about you the PC but about Cait. Cait's sister gets kidnapped and spirited away, it's Caits quest to go out and find her sister and chase after the demon. The inital reason you are there is to find riches and you are forced to help Cait on her journey, it's literally game over if you do nothing at the start. Many of the story beats and actions are not influence by you and it makes you a passive observer.
The characters are another sore point for many people. Some of the characters are open in their relationship and I feel that some including myself prefer to not have the character that we want to be in an open relationship. Nothing wrong if that's your thing but there are people that want the characters to our self. For instance Cait and Azyrran are two examples off the top of my head, Cait flat out says she can and will fuck others if you want to tap and Azyrran appears to already be in a relationship with someone and that someone doesn't like or at least care about you in the relationship if you are male gendered.
Overall COC2 doesn't feel like a sequel to COC but more like a fan fiction or just using the ideas of something great to replicate.
I want to make it clear that I played and enjoyed the first COC, so most if not all my feelings on COC2 will have some influence from the first COC. I don't think COC2 is bad by any means but if you take it in comparison to the first one you will most definitely find it lacking.
Let's talk about the gameplay and I will be honest it's bad, in my opinion there should be minimal to no gameplay to porn games, exploration feels like a chore moving in between every single room just to get to the point of interest. They didn't even have a way to quickly return to the fast travel until 2022 which is 4 years after the first release. Combat is garbage, bottom of the barrel crap that should be entirely removed. I am sure there are people who enjoy it but it's so slow each character has an attack and that takes up several lines of text, so eventually you might get fights where both sides have at least 4-5 characters each and make the combat log long for no reason. Combat in COC was faster both because it didn't expand beyond you hit X with Y for Z damage and they represented multiple enemies as a single group with increased damage and health. Also classes for your character are overly complex and feel like they barely add anything to your character. I don't see a point to differentiate the classes if you can just acquire almost all the magic and skills from people, just leave us as a blank canvas as COC.
The writing, I don't claim to know anything about writing but from a reader's perspective its not the greatest and I think this is the worst part. As a sex text based game the smut writing has to be top tier, so good that your brain can imagine the scene happening, I don't find myself enjoying the writing as much. And I can't tell if it's because they appear to have by the wiki's count about 45 writers writing for this game at once which causes the writing to be not enjoyable. How do you ensure quality writing from all people involved, from my perspective it feels like they don't ensure quality. I am not sure how to word it but when I am RP or wanting to put myself into the PC many scenes just don't have the feel like I am the one making decisions. If for instance you want to view it as a third party I would whole heartily agree that most if not all scenes are good but not for people RP.
The story, i think is a sore point for many people. The story is to put it bluntly in my opinion not about you the PC but about Cait. Cait's sister gets kidnapped and spirited away, it's Caits quest to go out and find her sister and chase after the demon. The inital reason you are there is to find riches and you are forced to help Cait on her journey, it's literally game over if you do nothing at the start. Many of the story beats and actions are not influence by you and it makes you a passive observer.
The characters are another sore point for many people. Some of the characters are open in their relationship and I feel that some including myself prefer to not have the character that we want to be in an open relationship. Nothing wrong if that's your thing but there are people that want the characters to our self. For instance Cait and Azyrran are two examples off the top of my head, Cait flat out says she can and will fuck others if you want to tap and Azyrran appears to already be in a relationship with someone and that someone doesn't like or at least care about you in the relationship if you are male gendered.
Overall COC2 doesn't feel like a sequel to COC but more like a fan fiction or just using the ideas of something great to replicate.