Recent reviews by MrManGuySir

Upfront: Rain World is not for everyone.
Its tutorial only teaches you the absolute bare minimum you need to know to complete the game, your survival relies as much on luck as it does on knowledge checks, it's easy to get lost, and it is CRUSHINGLY difficult.
But for anyone willing to power through it, learn its intricacies, absorb its world, and study its creatures, it's a damn near transcendent experience.
It has a lot to say and a lot to show. Its creature AI is some of the most complex and immersive I've seen in any game ever, the art and the music are beautiful, the locales are varied and unique, and the worldbuilding, despite being entirely tertiary to one's overall enjoyment of the game, has buckets of care poured into it.
If any of this interests you, and if brutal, occasionally unfair challenge isn't a turn off, play it. Hopefully you'll love it as much as I did.

A game where American servers are filled with Arabics saying such things as "I f**ked your mother", Chinese people that don't speak English, and teammates that almost never listen, mostly because they don't speak your language.

11/10 would be told that I have no mother again.

Challenging fun which brought the Payday series into fruition.

I didn’t own this game when it was still the f**king s**t, but I can’t help but acknowledge the origin of one of my favorite games, Payday 2.

You can beat the game in just about 2 hours, and it only came out like a few months after the previous installment.

It’s, uh...

It-it’s a game.

A mindf**k of a story that does it’s job and executes it well.

Oh, it’s also really fun and stuff.

Oh, you can also make your own levels and campaigns, which has lead to experiences better than the original story.


Oh, and it’s only 15 dollars.

Need I say more?

Mostly anti-consumer practices and changes that just made my head hurt. The game has also lost its charm and I’ve moved on to other ventures since. I doubt Valve will be able to breathe new life into this game after the reveal of...

“...Artifact.”

Let's get started. Wew.

+I liked the gameplay choices that were made.
+The maps felt well-designed.
+I liked the idea of bringing a Black Mesa guard with you.
+Some (really stressing the word SOME) of the sound design was pretty good.

-You can abandon the Security Guard behind locked doors.
-Some of the textures looked muddy.
-Quite a reasonable bit of the weapon sound design made me feel nauseous.
-While playing, for some reason the security guard stopped shooting for a reasonable chunk of the game.

Now that that's done, time for le verdict.

I wouldn't say stay away, but I ALSO wouldn't say that this is a masterpiece.

If there was a "Meh" option, I would put it, but since most of the flaws are based around bugs and sounds, NOT actual gameplay, I'll go ahead and recommend it.

Hoo, boy. There is a LOT of stuff in this mod.

Like, too much.

It took me an entire DAY just to type up Combine enemy types and strategies to beat them for a guide I'm making, and I still need to cover the other 3 enemy types, THEN I need to cover weapons, THEN I need to cover ITEMS...

It's a lot of stuff, yet I still hunger for more content.

If the player wants more of what you're making, then that's a sign that it's good.

Anyways, on to the actual review.

+Large enemy variety.
+Good sound design (For the most part...)
+I highly enjoyed the weapon variety.
+The new enemies were good editions, specifically the Elite Metropolice and Elite Ace.

-The Combine spawn in too large of numbers for it to ever be possible to even kill 200 on Normal.
-I encountered a glitch where the game would crash if I flicked from one enemy to another while using bullet time.
-Frames drop at inopportune moments.
-Activating bullet time before accessing the shop makes everything move faster than it would normally, making it harder if you're trying to buy batteries or healthkits, since your health is generally going down faster, requiring you to buy more medkits and more batteries.

Despite the flaws, I can look past them and still see that this game is REALLY freaking fun.

Which is why I don't understand the Mixed Reviews label.

Rewriting this review now so it's actually a review.

Fast-paced action gameplay with a pinch of RPG progression elements in it.

Am I forgetting something...?

OH YEAH, STEALTH.


Unless you really enjoy stealth games, don't do this to yourself. It's not all that good.