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I beat the freaking thing.
One thing I have to say: final battle SUCKS. Took me about 5 times total to do it...in a span of 2 days. 8F I got so pissed after losing the 4th time, I quit that night. Went back in last night, beat it in one try.
Yeah, he can be a bit sneaky. He blew me up with the amber a few times, and I fell to my death once or twice as he was shooting me.
I'll definately play through the game again. I want to see if I can do hard mode and crushing mode eventually, though I can't see this being for a while.
I have strategy guide though, which I'm going to use for my second and third times through so that I can get all of the treasures... With the first game I really tried to avoid using any guides and just searched hard for the treasures in the hope of finding them... This time? Stuff that, there are a hundred of them! Also, I actually looked hard for them while playing through the game the first time, and checked every corner of every room I could see, and I only just got over 50 of them... I think on the whole the treasures are a lot trickier in this game to locate. A lot more of them require you to shoot them to get them to somewhere you can pick them up.
On an unrelated note, has anyone ever read through Drake's journal in-game? It's awesome, and it updates the further you are through the game. It has references to the last game (such as Eddy Raja's contact details being crossed out, and a quote of Eddy Raja next to an angry head sculpture) and also lots of fun things to do with either the story, or the relationships Drake has with the characters. The Sully pages in particular are great.
There's also a page where he keeps names and place to meet certain people, including Chloe, Elena and Rika Raja, but also many unknown characters that perhaps might enter the game one day (I think one or two of them are mentioned in dialogue between Sully and Drake as they're walking about), or perhaps they are just filler.
I think the journal was great to have in the game. I'm really glad they added it.