Initial Thoughts of My First Run of CV2

Hey all,

Hope this is OK. I thought it would be fun to leave a little log of my first couple of adventures playing Code Vein 2.

I played the hell out of CV1, loved it. For some reason, it flew under the radar that there was a second game, and I just realized it so I bought it.

I’m playing through the campaign now, and thought I would share my thoughts on some of the things I’ve seen since I have truly no idea what characters are in this game and where the story goes. I have absolutely no spoilers even slightly so I’m kind of just playing blind.

To start out, ive met:

Lou / Noah / Valentin / Josee.

I just helped Josee in the past with clearing a giant corrupted Substation plant. Previously, I did the entire bit of plot with Noah as well and chose to save him.

i love Lou so far. I was a huge Io fan before in CV1, and i feel shades somewhat of her in Lou. I love her design, I like her temperament, and I’ve always just kind of liked the “Navi” characters in Games.

Noah at first I wasn’t quite so sure about. But wow, he really grew on me. I like him a lot now, and I was thrilled at the opportunity to go back in time and have the fates play out differently.

I don’t remember her name, but there’s like this big “mommy”-esq woman who somewhat wasn’t thrilled with the fact that Lou and I went back in time. I don’t remember her name and I have no idea what her connection to anything is, but I thought she was gonna be a villain. But she ended up being cool about the time thing. I still feel like she could be a villain, but you never know. I like her, all the same.

We met Velentin and I’ve got to be honest. I have fucking no idea anything about this guy. Maybe it wasn’t reading enough for paying attention or I just forgot, but he’s just some guy.

That brings me to the main topic.

Josee.

When the cut scene of my character walking up on her sleeping in bed came up, I was excited to meet the next playable character. I saw her design and I was like “here’s my favorite companion, surely”.

Fuck me, man, I was so wrong about that.

I have been bloody knuckling my way through the bit of story with her so far. From the minute, she jumped us, overpowered us immediately somehow, and then sucked our blood for an awkward amount of time, I fucking hated her.

I hate the fact that I’m stuck with her, I hate the fact that she won’t stop commenting on stuff, and then I got to see some of her memories with her sister, and she still seemed like a bitch. And then there is randomly like some sort of implied romance? Fuck that get me away from this creep.

I don’t know what other character options there are in the future, but I’m hoping that there’s some sort of an option or climactic choice like there was with Noah for Josee.

I just wow I really don’t like her.

It’s incredible how much I don’t like her. Nothing that was supposed to endeared her to me seems to have worked and I’m just wondering is it just me? Does anybody else hate her?