Overall, is a good rethinking of the first game, but there are some things that make me stuck to a setting more akin to the first edition than this. I mean, almost every Pantheon fights a significant Titan and have epic adversaries, but the Orisha and Loa fight against racism and some evil sorcerers? That sounds condescending, and a deterrent to play as one of their Scions; in the first edition, they fought a water Titan that had strong ties to slavery and racism, and the mix between mythical threat and cultural conflict was quite cool; why eschew that?. And in a world in which ancient gods are real and active and everyone knows about it, humanity had to endure the same hardships and mistakes? That doesn´t make sense to me. Also, the differences between God, Titan and Primordial sometimes are really confusing; one time they say that Primordials are entire worlds similar to the Greater Titans of the first edition, next time they present you a creator God with his role and avatar as a Primordial (like Izanami and Izanagi). Or they say "the difference between Gods and Titans is Titans don´t care about humanity", and then they describe a guy who doesn´t care about humanity and call him God. So I take the rules, cultural information and some other improvements, and adapt them to the setting of the first edition, thanks. I know that one of the good things of roleplaying games is that you don´t have to follow the book to the last letter and you can adapt it to a setting and rules more fitting to your and your players' tastes, but this edition seems to force you to do that, due to the confusing and contradictory information.

Is a really good sourcebook and the revision it makes of the Mythos gods to adapt them to a more modern audience (and making their Scions at least playable, with purpose and free will) is great, but I feel that it doesn´t fit very well in the "classical" Scion scenario. I see it more fit for a Cthulhu Mythos campaign with buffed characters that can endure the horrors of the setting, and not just investigators that die or go crazy after encountering a Mi-Go. Very recommendable anyway for any Mythos and Lovecraftian horror lover.

Although the system of variations and scars is compex, it really represents the the theme of "power at a great cost" we see in many media about otherwise common humans with superpowers, and also gives an almost infinite number of possible combinations to desing your Deviant.