
They cut out the ancestor's dark tales of macabre investigations into the occult. They simplified the stats with tokens which keeps an element of RNG but makes it now much less interesting and nuanced than before. They added a carriage that is horrible to control and a relationship system that either makes your team hate each other internally for no reason or literally turns your characters gay for each other whether you want them to or not. They cut out all of the town building, character building, and trinket accumulating aspects of the first game. Darkest Roads, as it should be called, is a pathetic attempt at a roguelike that uses similar aesthetics and gameplay mechanics from the first Darkest Dungeon game. The game does not have any dungeons, and it isn't a real sequel to the first Darkest Dungeon. They cut out all of the town building, character building, and trinket accumulating aspects of Darkest Dungeon II is a misnomer.
