Recent reviews by AtemAndrew13

Very cute, and gives some more insight into the characters, the world and lore, and the events prior to the first game. Would certainly recommend as a quick, delightful little read.

Exactly what it says on the tin. Downright adorable, if occasionally painful (I... heavily dislike sliding tile puzzles). But 1. It's very fun to work your way through things and 2. Hard to argue with the price of 'free'.

Fingers crossed that more stuff like this gets put out, and maybe some ways to toss a few bucks to the dev.

I could talk about how it's nice that you don't really need to worry about micro transactions. I could talk about how it's a fun gameplay loop and it's nice to see active update and added content, as well as an active effort that brings together the community. I could talk about questionable nerfs, design choices, and enemy design - aside from glitches.

Instead, I'll talk about how this game - three months after release - was suddenly changed for the worse. Aside from the standard far-too-invasive anti-cheat that everyone needs to work around (because hey, you have nothing to hide, it's okay if some random dev has kernel-level access to your entire system, right?) they've decided to require a Playstation account.

I can't say if this is a decision solely by the devs or by Sony. I can't say if it's 'true' that it's always been stated as required.
I CAN say that you could skip the process, and did NOT need an account until now.. I CAN say that there are many countries that can't make Playstation accounts, and if they spoof things and make burners to do so, that's a bannable offense. I can also say that Sony makes a habit of censoring games and ticking people off, resulting in worsened products and massive data breaches.

EDIT: Sony, in their 'mercy', despite still being a terrible company - has realized just how bad a mistake they made and have reversed the decision. Playstation accounts will no longer be required. However, over a hundred countries - the ones that could not make Playstation accounts in the first place - are still arbitrarily restricted from the game. Until that has also been fixed, my review will stay negative. However, I will not argue against the rest of my fellow liberty fighters who are changing their reviews back.

Well, I'm glad steam support let me get a refund on the Battle Network games (BS that it got split into two packs anyways), shame there's no way I'm getting money back for this.

Do you like suspicious Russian spyware that triggers a few dozen antivirus warnings?
Do you like increasingly terrible DRM that claims to be an anticheat but doesn't really do anything but make your game run worse and mess with your online connection?
Do you like it when a company lies - intentionally or by omission - and stealthily slips something like that into your game without actually telling you, so the community is confused and infights until someone actually digs through the code?

No? Then don't support Capcom's increasingly stupid decisions. Speak with your reviews, and vote with your time and wallets.

Bouncy and - occasionally - dark music from the master of copyright free horror and creepypasta, a fun story and interesting characters, a fascinating premise and world, and some lovely watercolor art. What more could you want? (Also, this was made for a game jam?)

My only complaint is two points where more... modern-ish lingo is used (transed the genders and cringe), but - aside from taking me out of the moment at that two points - they're brief among the 2-4 hour free fun. I very much look forward to seeing more of this world, and of Faraday and Lucateal - and a host of delightful imps and demons - in the future!

7/10, would start playing only to have it abandoned by friends at the season's start again.

If you are a completionist, this game is not for you.
If you enjoy being creative with mission objectives, this game is not for you.
If you are a loot goblin, this game is not for you.
If you want to build up a base of operations for a once-great gang, even knowing that it'll one day fall, this game is not for you.

This game is for people who want to do EXACTLY what the game tells them to do, and for people who don't care about side content. You will miss out on content by progressing the story. You will get screwed over by a combination of RNG, any issues with personal skill, and simply not using the correct weapon when hunting for animals. You will leave behind large groups of un-looted corpses. You will gain a bounty and get shot at by GTA-style cops with psychic powers that spawn in mass and home in on you simply for bumping into someone who gets annoyed or going down an ally that an NPC happens to be going down because they think you're stalking them.

And, of course, if you don't do exactly what the story tells you to, you will die repeatedly via your allies charging into groups of enemies and getting shot or getting one-shot yourself by deciding to try and disarm someone instead of shooting them in the head or not going inside (after being forced outside... only to then get forced outside again) despite easily taking on all the game throws at you. Assuming you don't fail a mission because your allies ran too far off or - worse - died due to them running into a carriage and their horse throwing them like they got into a motorcycle crash.

Worth every dollar, one of the best mobal-esque games that'll get your heat pumping, your fist pumping, and your anger pumping depending on luck of the draw and your own skill.

Want to have a strategy simulator where you pit warriors of different classes against one another?
Want to sit back and watch heroes and legends duke it out, modded and vanilla?
Or perhaps you are a son of a silly person who enjoys chickens running around with their head cut off as physics repeatedly breaks.

Either way.... TABS!

I'm torn between giving this a neutral and negative review. However, in the case of most forms of censorship I lean towards the negative. But I'll get to that.

Firstly, I'm not sure this game should be $25 given how short it is, even with the additional modes at the end. A high-budget 3D movie sells tickets for $16-20 and is far less glitchy or physically exerting. On the topic of physically exerting, I'm sure everyone has seen the famous scene in The Matrix where Neo just bends backwards and all over the place to dodge bullets. Yeah, be prepared to do that. A lot. With your own body. Gets pretty tiring, doesn't it? There's usually some degree of cover, but there are frequently periods where you have a number of 'bad guys' pointing at you and you just have to... dodge for a while. Because in Super Hot VR... you can't move.

That's right. A game that's secondary tagline is 'time moves when you move'... and you can't actually move. You can't grab that gun that's right out of reach unless the game lets you. You can't flee from your hotbox. You're screwed if you run out of things to throw because throwing things in VR isn't that great, and if the enemies aren't coming to you then...or if they're coming to you with shotguns, well...

Exacerbating this are some glitches and the controls. As mentioned, throwing objects isn't the most accurate of things, and while most levels that expect you to throw things provide plentiful material... sometimes it just isn't enough without enough practice, and even then you usually have bullets flying while you figure out the best way to lowball baseball throw a shuriken so it actually hits someone rather than flying above their head. That said if a bullet is flying JUST over your head... you're probably dead, since it seems like your hitbox extends a bit above your body... just enough to turn some 'close calls' into 'you're dead now, back to square one'. One glitch that kept popping up - aside from a controller insisting on grabbing EVERYTHING and almost never letting go, which I assume might be an index issue - is something that I haven't had in any other VR game; my hand randomly just... going elsewhere. A few feet from my body, in a random direction, just floating off. I can still use it, but it usually bugged the camera and was... quite impractical and disorienting.

Now, on the topic of censorship. SUPERHOT has always had a bit of a shock factor. TImes when you begin questioning if, in-universe of course, if it's a game or not. If those shiny red enemies are really just video game characters... and then there are times where you're suddenly told to walk off a building to prove your loyalty to the system, or outright kicked out of the game. SUPERHOT has sometimes taken this to a few ridiculous degrees (like outright kicking you out of the first game or....the absolute nonsense of Mind Control Delete). However, the two scenes for this - which many might argue are pivotal to the story of the games... have been removed. There used to be a warning, an option. But nope, they're just gone. And since they were removed, a number of bugs were introduced.
What else was introduced? A bunch of negative reviews on steam.
What else was removed? A bunch of negative reviews on steam.

People were angry, upset. And they should be. Just devs prancing about, acting like they're superior. Outright ignoring the philosophy and story of their own games. And worse still, they removed content that people had PAID FOR. That's a big no-no.