Recent reviews by Feetuska

It is a pretty short "feels" based visual novel set in a warped post-soviet city featuring a girl named Sasha you slowly develop a friendship with. Takes less than an hour to complete. Has replay value in choosing alternative dialogue options. Ends way too quickly.

An absolute improvement from the previous game with fully animated cutscenes, graphics, more interesting combat (although still the same rpg maker formula), dialogue and story instead of a barrage of constant "lol random haha funny", even though some of that is still here.

Was awesome to see returning characters and themes even though I lost where the story was going mid way through.

The pencil man's song is about the most dramatic song I've ever heard in a video game. Wish more of the songs had vocals for more dramatic backstories during combat.

Difficulty vise the game starts up intensely difficult but by late game it becomes insanely easy especially when starting as "corrupt" automatically and shooting the suit case gun a couple times in hopes for insane damage numbers that instakill enemies.

A couple bugs were spotted but nothing major. Some clipping and getting multiple slippery ties within one level that fill the inventory not allowing other ties to be collected.

Wacky and wonderful pencil drawn adventure with interesting themes. A traditional rpg maker game where you'll be hogging down hundreds of sandwiches for health and buying better attire along with levelling up.
Overall straightforward and a medium to short experience with a difficulty spike mid to late game.
Also memes. And a critique of consumerism and capitalism.

With the story and circumstances it throws at you, this is about what I imagine life in China under zero-covid policy was like.

It features these "horror" or "shock" moments it likes to throw at you. And also repeat at you. I'm personally too desensitised to cannibalism, incest, committing murders, and being an overall psychopath (you know something I already do every day), so if any of these seem tabú to you and think will rise a reaction in you then I suppose this is just the shock game for you. For me, the repetition gets boring and forced.

The art style, even if it has issues with perspective at times is phenomenal, unique and consistent in cut scenes and gameplay itself. The gameplay is mostly that of a puzzle / rpg maker gamer. The music is alright.

Genuinely the most fun gameplay experience I've ever had in my entire life playing video games. Better than sex.

The story however is meh, but you're, or should be playing this over and over for the gameplay, not the story. There's some world building, a dystopian scenario and like 1 character with a personality. Plenty of references to the bible and other random antique stuff. It's kind of a devil may cry-esque travelling through hell scenario and it takes about as much liberties as well. Like with having an ancient Egyptian world that just screams Iron Maiden and a cityscape with a Rhodes colossus except it's a siren head. Pretty cool either way.

The graphics are searching for that PS1 style. It however reminds me way more of games like Half life 1 or Quake since it has a similar gameplay and look and PS1 wasn't really known for its fps-games, except for maybe those rare classics no one remembers. Like a certain Egypt themed one this game also takes inspiration from. What breaks this style anyway is the absurd amount of blood on screen, almost all the time if you're doing it right. So much so that it can literally lag your ps1 graphics game if you're speedrunning through of this too fast.

The music is good. The dev really knows what he's doing with the music and the game. It also features songs from other artists which are however better than the og ost.

Either way, this game is among the best things to have come from Finland along with weird internet memes and Nokia. The game keeps getting updated every now and then, some updates are pretty lacking like the one that added the "violence" -chapter, but I hope the next last two chapters will provide something memorable.

Yeah it's Hades.
Except it's actually Hollow knight.
Except it's actually Don't starve.
Except it's the binding of Isaac.

Well actually it's all of them weirdly packed into a single product. There are essentially two sides and pretty fundamentally different games packed into to this. There's a resource gathering micro and macro management building sim and a rogue like top down combat experience.

When it comes to the resource management gameplay, It's possible to do nothing but idle and watch your followers gather resources and handle their little village while you have to at times do things like cook for them and hold sermons (at least initially). As the game goes on you need to do less and less for them to just manage themselves. By around day 40ish of in-game time you're going to be overflowing with resources and have essentially won the resources management part of this game. The upgrades also end way too fast for there are way too few of them.

The main thing this game is marketed as is as a rogue-like fighting game. It's ok but seems almost secondary considering you can live almost entirely without it and just grind the second half of the game until there's nothing to do anymore. What the rogue-like part provides is mainly story content. The story is pretty meh. At first it's interesting and kinda cutesy-creepy but after that initial reaction sets off all the cult stuff just becomes normal. Plenty of replayability though for the game makes you do the same missions again but on a higher difficulty after you're done with the game's 4 worlds.

The game also has some glitches, like getting softlocked from follower interactions, but reloading the save seems to fix it so nothing too gamebreaking. Also the credits have all the discord mods in them which genuinely made me laugh.

Generally speaking it's very addicting but gets stale after a while. My final verdict is a solid 4/5.

Ok if you like the following things you'll like this game:

- Psychopathic killing from pretty much every character and justifying it with "there was no other choice"
- Animal abuse (lots of it)
- French accents
- Albino rat tornadoes
- Killing the English
- Fantasy themes in historical settings
- A sister-brother bonding experience
- Epic stealth gameplay

Oh yes, the pre little big planet. Racist, offensive and the birther of the worst thing in that franchise, HERO HAIR.

Anyways, I completely understand the pricing with this. It's certainly... not that good I guess one could say. The cultural themes are indeed very oriental and almost offensive with all the stereotyping and religious tones. The gameplay is what the title describes. If you want to drag characters and their body parts around with a mouse cursor, then this is just the product for you.

Wow. Well. This is certainly impressive, especially for an indie title.
The gameplay mostly reminds me of those old metroid titles. Complicated 2d maps with plenty of secrets and pathways. But on top of that we got hack and slash type action going on and dark souls type of elements. It's an interesting mix and works just wonderfully. Like butter I could almost say.

The story is... well it's there, it features plenty of interesting characters to be sure and epic moments but the writing is not, phenomenal I guess. The ending might bring a tear to one's eye, it's pretty dramatic, but other than that I don't think the story is the core of this game, it's definitely the gameplay, the combat and the exploration. And on top of that... the art. The art and music in this are top notch. Really really good. Makes this adventure truly come a live.

Well overall I'd say it's a fine game. Not perfect as some people would say, but it's fun and entertaining. Would recommend.

It's democracy 3 except with a worse art style and it crashes all the time.
Fantastic, 10/10, terrible price for an early access title btw, wtf.