Recent reviews by Immane

Best of the remakes, solid all around

My biggest complaint is the scarcity system. The game's ammo drop rates are inversely proportional to how much ammo you have to wild degree and that's DUMB. Try selling all your ammo at the merchant every time you see him vs hoard items and tell me it's not ridiculous

My review for this game is unnecessary, you know it's good

Is a fun hide and seek game, but people are going to drain the fun out of it by being too efficient.
If the family or survivors don't play like chainsaw killers or scared survivors, it starts getting way less fun. I expect the game will need some changes if it wants to live for more than a year.

On the subject of balance, for Family, Sissy is by FAR the best killer, with speed, stamina, slow poison stumble attacks, follow through tight spaces, poison attack into crevices, traps, and blood collection. She's best compared to... hitchiker, who has follow through tight spaces, traps that are hard countered by a survivor perk, and... yeah thats it. Much shorter list. If you're still unconvinced Sissy is out of line, imagine if Sissy started in basement instead of Bubba.

Meanwhile for survivors: Connie instantly can pick a lock. To escape, you need to pick 4 locks total, and typically one generator. she can skip 1/4 of the main objective. No other survivor can compare.

For for the metagame: The levelup system is just, bad. Because skillpoints are character agnostic and respecs are free, a level 10 person can respec around their basket of points to max any one character, spending a tediuos amount of time doing so, making them need to leave any lobby they can't get them in or play a level 0 character. This naturally leads to toxicity and weird standoff lobbies, especially when Leatherface is considered the least fun family, and is required to start the match.

My suggested changes are simple. Sissy cannot poison/slow/stumble via basic attacks, Connie starts without her character power, and make it so you queue with a specific character at a specific level where trait points are character specific to match with characters of your level. This would also allow people to opt into low power level games.

Solid puzzle game with a full figured character
The character model is the only sexual thing in the game, don't know why people lose their beans over it, don't know why more games don't let you have full figured female proportions.

The game itself is honestly a little stressful as death is common and save rooms are not. I highly recommend a save when you want to mod.

This game is now my totem pole against which all other deckbuilder/enginebuilder games are compared to. The gist of the game is you climb a roguelike set of event nodes up toward boss fights to make use of your (card engine go brrr) death machine that you try to build via collecting cards and artifacts.

Perhaps because I consider this the A grade baseline of the genre, I don't feel like there's many twists to it. This is the benchmark.

I thought this was a scavenge survival game going in, but it turns out the economy and trying to loot isn't actually that important. As a result, it wasn't what I was looking for but I found a good stealth shooter game regardless. Playing on the highest difficulty felt correct, as lethality of guns goes both ways. Near the end of the game you have to run past some helicopters and that felt distinctly un-fun-unfair.

This game is hard

Good game all around but the leveling and gear system does no favors.
It's a common trap of progression RPGs to let the player stack all sorts of bonuses (coils in this game) too high, creating what I'd call the Big Hammer problem. Linear health increase per level also means early difficulty leads to no difficulty.

The writing/lines/cutscenes are abysmal, worse than fanfiction. Cutscenes make no sense. Where, what, why, and the bad guy are all so poorly done.

Supplies are everywhere so you can get smacked and miss as much as you want, except for 1 enemy who has an instant kill attack, you're never really stressed for anything.

Gameplay and graphics are good though. Play Resident Evil 2 remake before you melt your brain with this one.

This game would be better if nobody ever said anything, just with awkward or intense starting where there would have been dialogue.

Soccer, with cars. If that sounds like fun you'll probably like it. If it doesn't then you probably won't. Good community, I very rarely see any sweaty tryhards with bad attitude