It's not funny. I get the joke, but it's just not funny to me :/.

Sir Whoopass is a game that identifies as a joke. I love humorous games and i know that this is highly subjective. A lot of people here love this game. But the thing is, i don't see it just making fun of RPG tropes or anything. Personally, i'd say the joke is "bad unity RPG games are bad and lazy" while it itself is a bad Unity game. You can of course create professional feeling jank. You can mock bad combat in games in ways that feel satisfying while still referencing how bad it is. But in this game, all the elements that it is mocking, they're not much better. It just is a bad Unity game, despite being a pretty good bad one. I know all of this sounds super confusing, so let me try to be a little more concise here:

The game is making fun of standard same-y RPG stories in a way of being exactly like them. This might change later on, but from the very start, every plot point in that half an hour of play time was about 100% foreseeable. That is not a mistake or bad writing despite best efforts, it is intentional. It allows the game to constantly point fingers and say "You know how this thing is totally overused? Here we are using the overused thing. God, isn't it overused? Haha, it's funny that we're using it regardless", but to me it's not. A joke is rarely funny if you can guess the punchline already. And as i mentioned above, those jokes are not just about "basic RPG tropes". "How to create your first RPG in Unity" as the title of a book in a shelf that you can interact with is one of the jokes that this game makes in reference to lazily slapped together Unity games. But again, does it separate itself from those? Not really, no. It feels exactly like those, just more polished. A polished turd is literally the best description i can give here. I don't want to call it a "turd" because that's giving off a harsher impression than i intend to, but you know, it's a phrase that helps show what i'm getting at. It is polished trash. Not highly polished, just polished. I would even argue that the game might have worked much better for me if it actually *was* highly polished trash, but that's just not what it feels like. It feels like a competent first Action RPG in Unity attempt with solid graphics. But it's not exactly...fun. Again, it doesn't feel much different from the games it's mocking. It works and it can be enjoyable here and there but it has this general feeling jankiness, from its physics to the combat, to its movement mechanics. It's all just a little "off" feeling.

So in essence - Sir Whoopass is a game making fun of same-y rpg stories and first-timer unity rpg game mechanics that don't go beyond the minimum while itself not being above them but rather falling victim to the same issues, making everything very predictable and thus unsurprising and fails to catch me at that meta-humor level that it's pretending to be competent at. It's not lazy, it's not carelessly made, but it just doesn't succeed at what it sets out to do in my opinion. I don't want this game to fail and i usually rather not leave negative reviews for games that people are clearly enjoying. But i want to help people who are trying to accurately judge whether they would like this game or not, so i hope this review offers another useful perspective.

It's not funny. I get the joke, but it's just not funny to me :/. Sir Whoopass is a game that identifies as a joke. I love humorous games and i know that this is highly subjective. A lot of people here love this game. But the thing is, i don't see it just making fun of RPG tropes or anything. Personally, i'd say the joke is "bad unity RPG games are bad and lazy" while it itself is a bad Unity game. You can of course create professional feeling jank. You can mock bad combat in games in ways that feel satisfying while still referencing how bad it is. But in this game, all the elements that it is mocking, they're not much better. It just is a bad Unity game, despite being a pretty good bad one. I know all of this sounds super confusing, so let me try to be a little more concise here: The game is making fun of standard same-y RPG stories in a way of being exactly like them. This might change later on, but from the very start, every plot point in that half an hour of play time was about 100% foreseeable. That is not a mistake or bad writing despite best efforts, it is intentional. It allows the game to constantly point fingers and say "You know how this thing is totally overused? Here we are using the overused thing. God, isn't it overused? Haha, it's funny that we're using it regardless", but to me it's not. A joke is rarely funny if you can guess the punchline already. And as i mentioned above, those jokes are not just about "basic RPG tropes". "How to create your first RPG in Unity" as the title of a book in a shelf that you can interact with is one of the jokes that this game makes in reference to lazily slapped together Unity games. But again, does it separate itself from those? Not really, no. It feels exactly like those, just more polished. A polished turd is literally the best description i can give here. I don't want to call it a "turd" because that's giving off a harsher impression than i intend to, but you know, it's a phrase that helps show what i'm getting at. It is polished trash. Not highly polished, just polished. I would even argue that the game might have worked much better for me if it actually *was* highly polished trash, but that's just not what it feels like. It feels like a competent first Action RPG in Unity attempt with solid graphics. But it's not exactly...fun. Again, it doesn't feel much different from the games it's mocking. It works and it can be enjoyable here and there but it has this general feeling jankiness, from its physics to the combat, to its movement mechanics. It's all just a little "off" feeling. So in essence - Sir Whoopass is a game making fun of same-y rpg stories and first-timer unity rpg game mechanics that don't go beyond the minimum while itself not being above them but rather falling victim to the same issues, making everything very predictable and thus unsurprising and fails to catch me at that meta-humor level that it's pretending to be competent at. It's not lazy, it's not carelessly made, but it just doesn't succeed at what it sets out to do in my opinion. I don't want this game to fail and i usually rather not leave negative reviews for games that people are clearly enjoying. But i want to help people who are trying to accurately judge whether they would like this game or not, so i hope this review offers another useful perspective.