r/CodeVein2

I’m very early in the game and would like to fully complete CD2 in one playthrough if possible. I just jumped back to save Noah but I’m having trouble finding a decent guide that lays out the conditions for full completion. Actually, I’m shocked at how few high quality guides there are for such a great game. Did this game not sell well or something? I thought the SoulsLike community would be all over this. IMO CD2 is considerably better than the first game in every way, and that’s just what I’ve gathered from this early in the game.

Anyway, any advice would be much appreciated. Is there anything I should or shouldn’t do to ensure I can get all endings. I’m trying to avoid getting locked out of anything. But if I have to play the game multiple times, so be it. I really enjoy this game.

I know this might be skill issue but why does everything in this game do so much damage? Like why do regular mobs chunk my health so much? Why are all the bosses hyper aggressive and constantly ignore my teammate and only attack me? And for love of good why does everything boss have so much aoe spam? Am I the only one struggling this much?

Anyone else kind of wish there was a free roam after the third ending of the game? Like, the ability to have companions from both eras around for exploration with comments about how much has changed in 100 years? Maybe even minor timeline changes where we see construction efforts in parts of the city and the frontier of people trying to rebuild! Maybe the ability to see the heroes interact with some of the others, like Lou, Lavinia, and Iris. I can definitely imaging Holly and Iris trying to perfect the enhancements the former was working on. Just some minor side quests as a bonus for the ending, ya know?

Heck, I’ll even take a victory dinner cutscene that was 100 years late.

1.

After starting the ng+ I realized that there is actually a 6th hero. The one who's core explodes at the start of the game when you talk with lavinia for the first time at the top of the tower.

Could that maybe be part of a dlc ?

2.

When we go to all the onsens with holy everytime she tells us not to look when she refreshes the regenerative effects. What exactly is she doing? I thought that maybe at the end she would show us what she is doing

I know it's been a bit of a hot topic for some people, and outright a deal breaker for a portion of them. But I think we should consider a few things as well.

Pros:

• CV2 involves Time Travel. This one alone makes me glad this isn't a direct sequel. Time travel, and its implications, make a lot of things more complicated. And it can even make things extremely confusing as well if everything isn't accounted for in the plan for the final result. Especially since our Hunter is one such case in the 3rd ending.
• New ideas and concepts can be implemented with less explanation. Time Travel is one such thing, but so too are "Bloodlines" and their specialties like we have in CV2. Weapons appearing out of nowhere? Well, in CV2 it's a singular explanation that doesn't need additional information. To have that happen in CV1 needs extra lore on top of "how does it work?"
• Themes can be expanded into more lore. Similar to the above, a couple of names were shifted around but still keep the same themes and overall gameplay like the first game. "Jail" retains its definition for Revenants, but rather than being a giant prison, it's now singular.
• Code Vein as a series is not forcibly connected to God Eater. Okay, trust me on this, it's better this way overall. It means the devs have WAY more freedom with the IP. Because now we don't have to stick to other lore that already exists and need to fit everything around it. This also applies to other entries going forward.
• Final Fantasy and Secret of Mana already prove that this format can work. People forget that these series have existed since the SNES (NES for Final Fantasy) and each game is its own self-contained story. We may live in a day and age where it's not as common, but even the Bloodstained games are showing that this format is still viable.

Cons:

• We don't get to continue our adventures with the original crew. Granted, I still don't believe Io, Jack or Eva get to come with us out of the Red Mist in the good/good+ ending. And arguably the other two endings leave nothing to jump off of, resulting in not being viable or reasonable to account for. Especially when the bad ending involves the MC getting killed and sealed away. The excuse of "not being able to account for all endings" was pretty terrible.
• Code Vein is not connected to God Eater. A lot of people want this to be true, so I'm throwing them a bone by adding this here.
• We don't get to see what else existed beyond the Red Mist. God Eater aside, this is a mystery and may result in other problems as well. For example, is there any place we can respawn as a Revenant? We need Mistle and those might be restricted to the Red Mist given a number of spoiler factors. So we kind of fall back into "we need more lore to explain why this does/n't happen". And that can get even more messy.

While I do wish we had gotten a direct sequel (and preferred Code Vein was forcibly disconnected from God Eater), I'm not entirely mad that they made Code Vein 2 its own self-contained story. I'm willing to let Shift continue with Code Vein as its own IP, and create multiple new stories around new crews.