It is really hard to give a recommendation as the people that enjoy this game and those that don't are so diametrically opposed on so many fronts it is hard to get an objective, hell even a centrist, point of view. I would say try it; if you enjoy it, great! Have fun and play it with gusto. If you don't enjoy it, hey that's okay no one is forcing you to keep playing a game you don't enjoy.
Worst part of it is that when you do remember a character from the old one, you'll usually remember them from something positive. Jojo would train and meditate with you, give backup at the village and comment on things, Amily wanted to restore her old village but would pair up with the PC if they were nice, Izma was a smart tigershark that you could tame and dedick, Shouldra was a snarky little shit but endearing enough, Ceraph was a punching bag, Rathazul had his potions and his Professor Farmsworth gag, Kiha took some time to get along with but it made for some interesting enough relations. Not to say they're perfect (except Amily and Jojo, they're cool) but you'd still leave with a positive opinion.
From what content i've consumed, what i also feel like a lot of the npcs in CoC2 lack, is romantic chemistry with the pc. Only Brienne and Kasyrra really feel like they have actual romantic feelings for the pc. Which is quite ironic since Kasyrra has been described as incapable of feeling real love.
Ryn, the centaur and horse princess that the mc can marry also feel like they have romantic chemistry. Kas does feel like she's the main romance despite being the supposed big bad.
I think part of the problem with any sort of "romance" in CoC 2 is that they all feel detached because your character has no real hub/home. Outside of the companions (of which you are still only allowed 2) you don't really have much contact with the other characters unless you go out of your way to cross the RNG landscape to interact with them in their isolated locations. The camp in CoC 1 had a homey feel and gave you a way to interact with characters on a frequent basis.
Speaking of centaurs, that for some reason reminded me. Not to put any bad juju in the air. But I was surprised nobody tried to cuck us with Ahmri. I remember when you marry her and ask the father for permission. He says something along the lines of.... uh. Like they have an open society or something. She won't get jealous of us if we have others. And to give her the same grace if she found someone else, however unlikely.
They should do that for a corrupted route, given that Brianne's whole dead is loving the champion and pumping babies over and over again (we don't go out anymore cause she's always preggo), then her corrupted version would try to outbreed the champion with her own demonschlong in a twisted/maniac expression of corrupted love
Her creator wrote that.
I agree and I've said it a few times. In CoC2, you feel interchangeable. Like if you weren't there to go on this adventure. Someone else would eventually do it. Which if I'm being honest. Isn't necessarily a terrible thing. Just depends on ones outlook and expectations. In this game you are average joe. Who happened to be at the right place at the right time. It's not that only you could do it. You just happened to get there 1st.
That's actually one of shitsune bad endings. One where champ gets turned into Nakano's slave-wife. He goes and beats Tollus&Co without much trouble, while champ bears his kids.
Might actually be the worst bad ending in the game tbh. The champion gets replaced and it is forced to join a TObs OC harem.
Taothians vindicated (They were trying to save plant based Kinu from a shitty OC and more art commissioned by Tobs)
Wait it's actually canon that one of the side characters can actually do better at being champ than you? Than why isnt he out there fightning already?
