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Finally dropping my review after more than 5 years of playing just to offset the uppity anti-woke losers here

Based game, based devs.

This is Dead Rising, but stripped of everything that made Dead Rising an actually interesting, unique zombie game.

Time limit is gone, inventory management is COMPLETELY gone, progression has been made worse in every single way possible with Combo weapons not granting extra PP and leveling mostly giving you bland numerical upgrades such as "+50 HP" or "greatly increased damage", missions are completely gone in favor of random radiant encounters.

The map is atrociously designed, you have all these stores and places to explore, and it's riddled with random collectables that come with snippets of lore. Collecting these things would be fun if most of them weren't located in the most frustrating to reach places, sometimes being gated by either main story progression or by having to locate random keys somewhere else in the map.

The combat is barely an improvement over Dead Rising 3, controls still feel pretty stiff and the combo moves have been entirely replaced by a "instakill one zombie with a normal weapon or AoE attack with a combo weapon" button. There's a dodge roll here as well, for some reason?

Every new mechanic introduced in this game is either forgettable or bland, like Exo Suits, which limits your movement (who needs combo cars am i right?) and barely lasts enough time for you to enjoy it. There's also a safe house mechanic that ties in with the random encounters, where you fill them with the survivors you rescue; the higher the level, the more things you can buy, such as map markers for blueprints or collectables. Because that feels great - progression gated behind RNG. The camera also returns, yet serves no purpose outside of dollar-store Batman: Arkham series detective mode investigation scenes.

This game didn't need more development time, it needed to be redone from the ground up. If you want more Frank West after the first game, just play Off the Record.

okay we won it's over

you can give me steam points now

Leaving this positive review exclusively to go against all the grown adults mad about the removal of pantyshots of a minor from this game.

Negative reviews should just git gud

I wish i could leave a "mixed" rating, so consider this review more of a "beware" than an actual negative rating. Get it on sale.

Binding of Isaac is a game with an addictive, great foundation plagued by asinine balance decisions and additions that feel like they were not playtested.

I love this game, even going so far as buying it on Steam and redoing everything again on a brand new save file. The gameplay is so simple and straight forward, i can just pop a run whenever i'm listening to something, and it'll always be a different experience due to the sheer amount of items and possible combinations. However, it seems like Repentance's design philosophy was: "Remove everything deemed too strong or game-breaking, because of "muh difficulty"". I'm not opposed to removing items that can single-handledly win you runs, such as old Brimstone, but nerfing these things without adressing the other game flaws, such as item bloat, is a big mistake. I don't want to see Sacred Heart Brimstone Tech-X every game like some redditors think, i just want to have more stats so i don't reach Depths 1 with 3.5 damage. It's indeed difficult to play the game when you get no stats, but it's doable - except it's just plain [b[boring[/b].

I had some major gripes with the alt path/Antibirth content at the start, and i still do have some criticism: Some enemies just do way too much stuff, and should be toned down. This applies specially to certain bosses, like The Heretic, Bumbino, The Visage and many others; their patterns are way too complex and unpredictable for a simple game like Isaac.
I still don't understand how some of the new characters were deemed acceptable to release. Managing two hitboxes with Jacob and Esau sucks. Having my entire HP at the mercy of RNGesus after i took damage from the 1 frame Needle coming out of the ground with Tainted Lost sucks. Being at a 1 hit kill because i got hit by Dark Esau is horrible. At least the experience of the last one is less painful with the new patches, along with Tainted Lazarus.

In the end, i've been playing the franchise since Wrath of the Lamb, and i'll keep playing Repentance, since i'm really passionate about this game. I just wish the devs would drop this weird "difficulty" obsession and embrace the craziness of synergies Isaac was always known for.

I used this game as a source of joke commentary for my sad friend. It worked.

10/10. Really simple but extremely fun game to play.

Hades is, simply put, a masterpiece. 2020's game of the year.

It's a pretty much flawless combination of easy to grasp gameplay and difficulty, a simple but very fulfilling story, unique and likeable characters, masterfully composed soundtrack and a great artstyle. The more modern, fun and laid back take on Greek mythology is wonderful and still very true to the origin material, and it might spark interest in it into players who might not be familiar with it.

The game manages to be both easy for more casual players with it's God Mode setting and hard for those who want it via Pact of Punishment, with it's different conditions spicing up high Heat challenge runs you can find all over YouTube. Every run makes you feel like you've made a little bit of progress, specially with its currencies and various upgrades.
The character relationship system and their writing makes you even more invested into playing the game, so you can find out more about them. It's very fulfilling getting to know each character; they are all unique and really great to interact with.

You cannot go wrong with this purchase. Props to Supergiant Games for such a heartwarming release in the middle of a corporate-plagued industry of yearly franchise releases and souless games.

It has bugs even when you're trying to create an account. Buy Morrowind.

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