Recent reviews by DirtMann

Just a little gem in the rough. Of course it has it issues (although I didn't seem to have any that I noticed on my PC but on my steam deck that is a different story mentioned later), but for $6 to have a short game to play through, it's fun. I played solo all the way through but I am going to do a co-op and I'll update this review once I have.

Few gripes:
While "technically" it was mentioned that the fish gave you boosts I didn't understand till about a third through the game you were supposed to eat them. Soooo I had three fish sitting in my inventory doing nothing, but that's on me for not trying to do anything with them.

The parry system took my some time to understand, as from weapon to weapon it can be faster or slower.

I played a major part of the game on my pc but a few times I got on my steam deck, I don't know if I had any settings turned on that was causing performance issues but it wasn't the greatest on it. Though again I have done a lot of tinkering with mine so it could be affected by something unknown to me. Take this with a grain of salt as again it might work great on a stock non-tinkered steam deck.

But overall great game! 8/10

This is by far my favorite PvE Shooter. I love all of the amounts of armament that I'm given to spread Liberty, Freedom, and Democracy, For Super Earth! See you on ground Helldivers!

The game is much more in-depth than people realize, the little details of the bugs chittering and "sniffing you out", to the bots going to check where you just were because they heard an explosion from a Bot fabricator being blown up. The attention to detail is fantastic. Even after the 168 hours I will still be coming back to this game time and time again for years to come. (as long as the servers are up that is.)

If you are sitting on the fence trust me the game is worth it, just keep a couple of buddies and it'll be a great time.

LET's GO GAMBLING!!!! (Aww dang it)

I LOVE THIS GAME!! I know its corny but it's true! It scratched perfectly of just the "wanna tinker my vehicle" part of my brain. The music was great, the atmosphere consistently keeping me on edge about what could be lurking in any building and the forest, the amusing conversations between the characters, I would definitely agree that the genius design to have the Driver (player) to be obsessed with the car was awesome cuz by goly it worked on me! My one and only complaint is the quirks get a little too granular at times. I had it once that the same door was causing two issues at the same time and the game got a little confused on the diagnose screen, but it still picked up on both being diagnosed and were fixable. I just wish it ran better on Steam Deck as I fully believe that this would a great title to have on the go.

By no means am I a video game developer and my opinion is biased but like everyone else I wanna like this game, but holy **** is the combat abysmal in my opinion and makes that hard to enjoy the game. You do what looks to be no damage, the button combos are clunky. Attack and heavy attack being on the same button is also unfavorable because the game will just straight up think your only pressing it despite holding the attack button. (I know I could probably change it in the settings) but so many other games have a dedicated heavy attack button. Also to let go of block to parry makes no sense, the timing feels way different to do that than to just press the block button at the right time when they attack. As stated in other reviews understanding when enemies are going to attack and is difficult to determine.

To build up an enemy's unbalance meter also takes too long. Really the same length as their health bar?!?! For smaller regular enemies is fine but for a boss that's way to much?!?! I have played other souls like games but I'd say this is my least favorite in my list, again still great game but there needs to be a big balance change to combat both for the player and enemies specifically. I know souls games are supposed to be hard but they need to be fair, and this feels unfair. I know you can change the difficulty but I want to play the game as the Developers intended the game to be played at.

The duchess fight is almost one-sided, her heavy unavoidable attack has way to large of a grab area. I will dodge left to not get grabbed and I will actively see the trap close and move closer to the left to me where I dodged which makes no sense and will sometimes still grab me despite being quite far over from it.

Performance seems fine and in some areas will freak out occasionally, after fighting the first boss right after getting the soda can shell, my performance seemed to suffer after the fight in that area any time I went back.

I would rate this game a solid 7/10. My two big complaints are combat and performance. Otherwise I have to leave a negative review for the main big issues of the game that need to be optimized.

Spoopy

I like it. better with friends for sure. though its annoying that a full lobby has to happen online and you can't do 2-3 players, it has to be 4 players no matter what. but good buy

I understand that this meant to be a social game but it is quite annoying when a F***ing 12 year old tells you to "get good" when you have never played and mocks you for it. it is also quite irritating when people wont leave you alone while you try to learn how to play and get in the causing you to go in a completely different direction then you are attempting to go. The way to mute people is so inconvenient, not to mention you can't reach the board from the stool. I cannot recommend this game at all.

I just can't get the hang of it. And is definitely rage inducing. I don't recommend this. Honestly was not worth my time.

I LOVE THIS!!! I played X-wing Vs Tie fighter and suck countless hours as a kid with my dad and recently started playing it again. And then they announced Squadrons and I have had a blast playing every second of it. To all of those who complaining about how it was going to have "micro transactions, ITS EA its going to be terrible!!, and its just a revamped version of star fighter assault from SWBF 2." They can all shut up and just let people play and spend how they want to. The game has been amazing.