Recent reviews by Kermit

gets worse every year

Simply sensational.
A true masterpiece gifted by God himself.

jordan graham is the meta

i dont understand what im doing

terrible

better than fifa

should be tagged as an immersive sim

better than fifa

stressful

genuinely one of the best games I've ever played:

WARNING: SPOILERS
Cruelty squad is an innovative and immersive shooter where you inherit the character of a hitman where his only mission is to eliminate his target and to please his boss who although we are not given his name and he does not directly add to the plot or the lore of the game, he is still an important character as he gives you a short briefing on the mission and if you read carefully through his dialogue you will find things that tell you about the secrets within the level and hint towards future levels

The first mission on the game is called “Cruelty Squad Headquarters”. On the surface this level will feel pointless and empty to new players that have not progressed far although as they get further into the game, they will begin to realise the significance of this level and how it relates to voice lines and other references within the game.

The next important level within the game to many is called “Sin space engineering” although there is not a lot of depth within this level and is only used to acquire the fishing rod and is the first mission you encounter the knife wielding enemy which implodes into a toxic gas which will drain your health at a reasonably fast rate.

After the completion of sin space engineering, you will unlock the level called “Androgen Assault” where you explored a prison like environment where there is a basement place with an eery atmosphere which is not helped by the distorted sounded laugh which echoes throughout the prison as you hunt your targets. This is the first level where you fight a boss like creature and have to find augments in other levels to explore this one to its full capacity.

The level you unlock after completing Androgen assault is “Mall Madness”. To many this is seen as the most important level in the game in a financial way as you will begin to see great changes within the stock market after you complete this mission. In the brief given to you prior to this mission you are told that “the megamall is ancient and has many forgotten passages” this hints towards the ruin like environments hidden within the walls and the floor of the mall which are riddled with unkillable zombie like monsters.

The level after this is called apartment atrocity, although before writing this review I was not aware of how important this level is to the story of this game, however the level itself is not important, but the dialogue before the level is the most important, as if you read carefully, at the end of his speech he says “The eye in the sky is watching”. We will come back to this quote later.

The only levels I can think of that may seem important after this other than the secret levels and 2 others is casino catastrophe which only has a significance about it due to the arcade machine which you have to play to win a gun called the zippy 3000 (which I found to take me about an hour) although it is worth it if you want to unlock everything in the game.

From now on in this review I will mostly be linking back to things I have already mentioned and will go into greater depth on ideas that the game implements exceedingly well

“The eye in the sky is watching”:
This is something I previously mentioned as it puts emphasis on the eery feeling on some levels where even though you are surrounded by plentiful amounts of NPC, your character feels isolated and alone, an example of this is on the final of the main level archon grid, a mysterious level filled with secret passages hidden behind moveable boulders, however at the start of this level you are surrounded by many NPC who will walk around aimlessly and will (as they mostly do) act chaotically when you shoot, other than some… These NPCs will stand still or just casually walk around other than one in a room who will say “LET ME OUT!!!” when you interact with them which makes you feel like there is a separate entity which you are not aware of. Going back to the quote “the eye in the sky is watching” this quote links to a secret level named darkworld which is unlocked by finding the painting in the sewer of the level bog business. The level darkworld has a terrifying atmosphere, the first sound which greets your ears when you spawn in the humming sound which would usually come from something like a generator or old lights and the NPCs all have red eyes and a red smile which looks like it has been etched into their face and they will say things such as “you can kill me but it wont end this”. The final piece to the aura of this level is the giant eye in the sky which is constantly looking down at you and that wherever you are on the map most times you will have the eye on the side of your screen which lets you know an enemy is looking at you.

Paradise:
I have not yet mentioned this level yet as on the surface there is nothing special about it however as you delve deeper into the game you will become aware of the basement which can be found in the first house on your left when you spawn in. this contains a ruin like environment with a flower enemy which you should have encountered if you have gone far into the game. Going further into this basement you will find other enemies such as the unkillable zombies and some others. This basement is also where you will find the cursed torch augmentation. However, the key part of this basement is the moon shaped creature which is under the stairs and although he does not appear much in the game he does appear in the level I will talk about in the next section

Cruelty squad headquarters:
This level is incredibly complex beyond how it appears, the first secret you may find out about this is that in one of the backrooms behind the counter, if you move the bin shaped objects out of the way you will find a vent which leads to a jump across toxic water, after the jump you will then go up a ladder into the attic, you will then here something that sounds sleepy and drowsy, however, this is just the moon shaped character you find under the stairs in paradise. The way you uncover the wall he is hid behind is by changing the games resolution to the resolution 640 x 480, this is referred to as the ”resolution sent by god” to some NPCs you talk to.
This map also holds a secret weapon called the ZKZ, this is the best weapon in the game if you have a lot of money to put into stocks although it is very difficult to obtain.
The final thing you may notice about this map is that there is actually a target to assassinate within the headquarters, if you do not use a certain strategy, this boss is incredibly difficult to kill but once you beat this you will get one of the 3 endings within the game.

The very last level within this game is Trauma Loop
This level is obtained by beating every level on the game including house. In this level, unless you find the NPC which removes the curse from you, you are not allowed to use augmentations within this level. In all honesty there is not much to cover about this level other than it is a bit confusing at first and that it is quite a fun level to play.

That is all for this review, this is my favourite game and I have voted it for steam game of the year 2021. There is so much more to this game but it would take me ages to write it all out and it probably wouldn’t fit within the limits of steam review so you will have to buy the game yourself and find out the rest.