It’s looking more and more like 2012 is the year we’re going to be spoiled for choice, where RPGs are concerned. With Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning out in less than a week, and Risen 2: Dark Waters out just a couple of months after, to name only a few, it’s a wonder how we’re going to find enough time to sink into exploring each game’s huge, open worlds and save the worlds from varying degrees of tyranny and evil. I still haven’t even completed Skyrim yet.

The newest developer diary from the Risen 2 development gang focuses on highlighting much of the work that has been put into ensuring that the in-game characters move and react appropriately, and not at all like they’re little virtual puppets being manipulated by digital strings.

Risen 2: Dark Waters is due out in April.