Recent reviews by The Known

One of few games to make me ugly cry, this was such a well crafted experience.

Overall I enjoyed the game based on the story, music, and theme. The one thing that killed my enjoyment at many points however was the gameplay. I'm not new to brawler style beat-em up style games, but the amount of times this game would throw the one variety of enemy that is extremely agile and blocked most attacks unless in witch time, and had some of the most erratic and unstable attack patterns I have seen in a game like this. Granted, a lot of those encounters were in optional areas but even still, the difficulty should be based on a players ability to learn and improve, but a lot of this challenge was more based on luck of attack pattern since there was no good indicator as to whether they would attack once or do their chain combo. I understand this is an older game but having just finished on normal and now seeing the inclusion of even more of this one enemy type on hard mode, I just cant be bothered to keep going. If you want to really enjoy this game just play on easy even if you are better at beat-em ups with how janky some of the dodges feel and sometimes wont even trigger the dodge mechanic about 90% of the time. I still love the series but finally playing it myself, the gameplay of this installment really dragged it down for me.

At first what started out as a game I used to just sit back and relax with, turned into a game that I was invested in what was happening with the story. After having just completed the story missions, this game turned into such a wholesome and wonderful experience at the end. I am excited to see where they will go from here with possible new special missions, and I feel like if they add in workshop support, the community will have a field day adding new possible maps through fan made content. Very excited to see where it goes from here, and highly recommend this to anyone.

Teens are obviously the love child of the devs as is in any asym game it seems with the many being stronger than the few when these games whole point is needing to work together and not just bum rush alone with an op weapon, which almost every weapon teens have is overkitted and unfair to some degree, especially the solar flare which can apparently be used even through a disrupt. The slowdown from a single weapon also basically is a death sentence in 80% of the map with very few obstacles actually blocking the damage from the items.

Edit: With this in mind, monsters have been playing the absolute scummiest camp/tunnel strats just to be viable because of how unfun and unbalanced teens are for a monster, therefore making solo que with people who won't ever communicate legitimately impossible, as you will be tunneled out of the game and have been waiting in a 15 min que for a 2 min game where all you can do is hold W and shift.

Game is polished but challenges are the most horrendous grind for xp ever as there is no alternative ways to gain xp aside from paying real money for levels or boosts. The current event is even muddled by the use of these challenges needed to make progress for the event cosmetics, with the difficulty of some being insane and hair tearing and agonizing. Not only this, but most of the games I have played have suffered severe ping disparities where I will hit an enemy, they hit me back, and only their damage gets registered even when I clearly hear the hit sound and suction to their body, whereas any other intensive multiplayer game will not give me such issues in the slightest. Lots needs to be done and I wanted to like this but it is in such a state of unbalance and monotony I cannot give it any praise. Its as if a toilet that was filled with rancid waste was polished on the outside and left closed so all that could be seen is the fancy and nice exterior, but the smell seeps through eventually.

Still a work in progress and of course translation can be a bit shaky at times, but I feel that these factors add a certain element to the game that really makes it fun and unique. Overall there could be things fixed but I would highly recommend this to anyone who loves rougelikes.

After playing for more time this game has way too many issues with very bad generation and it is getting to the point where I cannot recommend this until these issues get fixed.

Very fluid gameplay and amazing visuals, was a fan of the original and happy to say that I am loving this next installment as well!

Oddly calming

Despite the issues the game will run into through its time, keeping in mind the dev team not being super big like many others today and offering such a unique title I feel is what keeps me involved in both the game and the community.