The first film was significantly better. This one seems to rely more on CGI while the first had a solid screenplay. The first one touched the soul with the little girl, Dina. Here she is back again a little more grown up, but the writing just wasn't as endearing as the first film. The film isn't bad. But I would have loved if they did both movies back to back when the actress that played Dina was still a young child and there was more continuity. Rebecca Emilie Sattrup and Jakob Oftebro are both good actors and they work well together. The actress that played Drakan's mother was also very good.

I also noted this film borrows even more from HBO's Game of Thrones than the previous film. Even the catacombs of Winterfell seemed to be copied.