Recent reviews by Shank

Half a league half a league ONWARD! all in the valley of death rode the helldivers
FORWARD THE HELLDIVERS charge for the reviews they said all in the valley of death rode the helldivers
FORWARD THE HELLDIVERS! was there a man dismayed not that Sony knew someone had blundered
theirs not to make reply theirs not to reason why theirs but to do and buy into the reviews rode the helldivers

Shills to the left of them Shills to the right of them Shills in front of them volleyed and thundered
Stormed at with whistle and bell Boldly they wrote and well into the jaws of death into the corporate hell rode the helldivers
Flash from their reddit flair flash from their reviews they bared sabering the corperate there, charging and army while all the world wondered...
Plunged in the corperate smoke right through the line they broke, ceo and shareholders reeled from the reviews they spoke, shattered and sundered.

Then they rode back....

also the actual game is pretty fire.

***Disclamer only played through in a coop game so some of what im saying may only be coop problems***

The Good:
-Character development is very fulfilling
-Story is excellent
-Coop finally
-Music is very good
-Voice acting is fantastic
-Choices have consequences and there is always more than one way to solve problems in this game.
-These toasters ain't gonna fix themselves

The Bad:
-As of Nov 25 2020 needs a good comb over for bugs nothing super terrible*
-I felt like the perks needed some more options like every lvl 10 skill should have had a level 10 perk
-Combat got too easy toward the end of the game (played on 2nd highest diff on my playthrough) RARELY had a fight go past 3 rounds once we got a full squad.
-Joining dialogue in coop should be done by clicking on your squadmate and not the npc some conversations you either have to miss out on the dialogue or be in a very bad position for the inevitable fight that was coming because your PC runs up to the NPC from across the room so you can hear what is being said.

The Ugly:
-This is the reason for the * above. The biggest flaw in this game by far is the turn system feels a little broken. In coop, P1 needs to start the fight every time and if that is not possible, IE dialogue or being spotted, the game will have a hard time. Characters starting their turns with no ap, in some cases missing an entire turn with the whole squad. There is an initiative stat on Speed but it doesnt seem to be used for anything turn order goes: Friendlies,Player1,Player2,Enemies. So if player two starts the fight player 1 will have no ap when their turn comes around SOMETIMES. Same goes for if the enemies start the fight. It doesnt happen every time but it happend to us enough that it was frustrating. We would always look to initiate with player one to avoid this issue. It wasnt too bad in our case because player 1 had our sniper so he initiated most fights.

VERY unpolished game. would not buy at full price again. fun with friends but when you're locked out of returning to the game when you are on level 12 its kind of annoying. Fix the bugs this game would be loads of fun.