What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord!? 2 isn’t just a good way to bite a chunk out of your word count, it’s also the title of the sequel to 2009’s Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?. The change in name comes down to some legal issues, with a certain company not liking how the original title alluded to a certain Dark Knight – so Acquire went with the new name. Simple.

Still, the confusion doesn’t end there, as this sequel is coming seven months after the original arrived in Europe. From an extended playtest it’s clear that things remain – generally speaking – the same. Additions come in the form of mutations, which can occur for a number of reasons (including obesity, which is always funny) and the Overlord’s Chamber, offering a free play mode to just muck about in.

The former throws in a few new elements to the whole ecology system of the first game that impressed us a fair bit (73% is a “fair bit”, apparently). It mixes the system up and, while we haven’t been able to test it thoroughly, should offer new strategic elements to defending your dungeons from encroaching heroic types. The latter is pure sandbox, allowing you to just play a dungeon free of restrictions, inviting heroes into battle whenever you feel and generally observing how the ecology of any given setup can work.

We’re at odds as to whether a sequel so soon after the first game is really necessary (the original did come out in Japan in 2007, admittedly). All the same, the winning blend of strategy, a fun sense of humour and a graphical update mean My Lord!? 2 should be a decent distraction.