More practically, you can import your character from the first game if you choose. Most of the plot spills over from the first Incredible Adventures, yes, but a succession of handy cutscenes ensure you're up to speed if you want to start here. More often than not, their chatter centers on the trustworthiness of Prisoner Seven, a foreboding fellow who looks like a geist from World of Warcraft but brings Van Helsing word of enemy movements and fishes him out of rubble when he's down. It's silly stuff, but the duo and their respective voice actors bring a dash of personality that's all too absent in this genre. It's at its best when it's communicated through the always-entertaining banter between Van Helsing and Lady Katarina, who flirt and bicker among steampunk cities and wooded mountain paths with all the charm of an old married couple.
Most action RPGs pay minimal attention to story Van Helsing II turns this convention on its head by delivering a tale that's worthy of attention despite its simplicity. Even the original's nods to tower defense strategy remain in the form of missions that require you to defend Van Helsing and his spiffy hat from the forces of new chief baddie General Harker. The sequel maintains the best parts: Van Helsing still trots about the lovingly rendered cobblestones of the steampunk wonderland of Borgovia, accompanied by the buxom banshee Lady Katarina, and he's still preoccupied with killing baddies and picking their corpses for sweet loot. Van Helsing II sees developer NeoCore correcting many of the defects of last year's Incredible Adventures, a scrappy but flawed game that was generally lost in the middle of what turned out to be an isometric action RPG renaissance of sorts (see Torchlight 2, Path of Exile, and Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls).
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