Whats even worst this that by fixing the hive you get bimbo Izzy as a companion anyway. Why couldn't that be the case if you pushed her and the paladin in the corrupted honey?
Kinda why I like going by the Motto, corruption should effect people in different ways. Which was evident in CoC1 too. Like Corrupting the mouse, resulted her becoming a succubus like mouse. Corrupting the monk rat, actually made him feral who hung around the outskirts of your camp like a voyager with a hand on his dick 24/7. Its what I liked about this corruption game. More could of got added since I didnt play the final version..
I made a suggestion in the steam forums long ago (when it launched), that with the current storyline, they could of made a corruption path for the MC, where you're not actually chasing the demon as you lead on, but rather following to see this world they are intending to make and sabotaging things as you go along (the pretending to be a hero, but your actually making things worse on purpose). As in the current lore of the setting, shes the first demon. You couldnt help but be a little curious no ?
But yeah, I couldnt help but thing alot of corruption options were lacking, Transformation (while not a fan of potions still) felt kinda worse than the first game. Im pretty sure there were some transformations that gave you boons in combat or exploring. Noticed nothing like this Coc2. But the whole level cap made me feel very weak. Never going to build a strong character without resorting to save editing and cheats. But then you have those events hidden in the game where your forced to loose :/
Well I guess alot of htis is already known, but I pains me to feel like its main story could be good, but lacks the stuff that made CoC1 fun. But even CoC1 was not perfect, but still better than CoC2. CoC1 did give me a bit of influence into getting into corruption and transformation games.