This game is so fucking weird. It has very professional presentation but the actual gameplay...

I like the "Arlekino" song

Its actually pretty amazing, halfwy between n Arkane game and a Bioshock-esq title . As far as the writing, I think there is a LOT lost in translation to English and just culturally . I had a Russian speaking anon tell me that there are references to all sorts of things and even the way certain characters talk or behave are related. Its a bit like how longtime JRPG fans will learn the difference between say... how an obvious "genki girl" type persona in Japanese is often localized into just an annoying child, without any of the positivity conveyed in her original presentation? Same sort of thing I think. The fact that most anons don't have a frame of reference for the kind of food set out at russian tea service and/or some soviet era cartoons and cultural memes will limit stuff.

Overall I really liked it an its kind of unique culturally hoping the next expansions are worthwhile

shouldve go with crapbaskets

actual gameplay, writing and level design are abysmally bad

maybe actually play it instead of just parroting youtube troons

Is it actually good?

worst remix

The only problems is that the glove trivializes small groups and the surface enemies respawn too quick,the "bad dialogue" is jus the english dub not swearing sometimes for whatever bizarre reason

THe music overall is pretty great, and unique - certain songs only play at certain times, versions etc. A lot of the "soviet pop/rock" is done really done well too.

also Switch language to Russian its more emotive since it was the original language of development it seems, plus falls into all the references and shit. For instance someone told me the "molesting fridge" has a Russian voice that to anyone watching TV in former USSR will sound like the "Sexually aggressive old woman" - picture a smoking madam saying "Oh don't be afraid Ivan Ivanovich you are new to all this yet, don't worry and let me take care of it". No idea if this is true or not but he speaks way more Russian than I did.

It's like Dying Light, an honest to god non-derogatory 7.5/10. There's likable things in there and a novel idea or two but it feels rough and unrealized.

this game taught me to never ever buy day 1 ever again

Crafting murdered it

CRISPY CRITTERS

Sometimes it feels like I'm hungry for any kind of novelty in a way that the vast majority of people who play games straight up aren't. I loved the "ecosystem" shit because it made slaughtering everyone, usually a brainlessly beneficial thing to do in open world games and imsims a resource drain and something to do even a small amount of thinking about. Most people I've talked to just felt like it was an annoying hindrance.

Yeah, I was hype to explore immsim type levels like Bioshock and Prey but it’s just shockingly unfun? Annoying puzzles and floaty, clunky combat

i loved it :)

What's shocking is that neither Bioshock or Prey had dodges

Annoying puzzles and floaty, clunky combat

i hope you're just a console baby

The marvel dialogue that also serves as exposition dump was jarring.

I just remember it because HOT ROBOT BALLERINA TWINS.

Oh, and I totally would that refrigerator too, but only if she works for it. It's a she right? I'm not going gay for home appliances.

I can’t say I hate it, just that it wasn’t hitting the beats it needed to make me want to play it. Music was good and the levels were novel, but by god I understand now what a male version of the Forspoken character would be like. It’s the protagonist of this game. If I had to change anything for the game to make it more enjoyable it would definitely be changes to the action. Enemies are a little too spongey, ammunition a little too scarce, and anything above ground would loop into never ending alerts as robots called in more robots who would repair destroyed robots. Cheeky references to 0451 and other immersive sims doesn’t change that this game isn’t a very good immersive sim. It could could be a good shooter if it wanted to be.

youtu.be/KRmMcmrsmp0?si=3iltaVf3dALmxfa0

CRISPY CRITTERS

I think it’s a cultural thing, Russians think asshole protagonists are super cool which you’ll see if you consume their media. To westerners he just looks like a dickhead

The gameplay is hideously unfun tho, it’s just shooting with your floaty gun some bullet sponge robots who push you in a corner and stunlock you

Although I found it weird and annoying as a catchphrase I did smile when he asks the AI if he’ll become a crispy critter if he goes into the boiler room

no you're just bad at the game,not dodging,using the glove and utilizing weaknesses

There were a lot of complaints about protag's personality and VA here in Russia as well.

I got it for free on gamepass and made it an hour and a half in before i uninstalled
it probably would have evened out to a 6/10 by the end but I don't really care enough to spend 10+ hours playing a 6/10 game anymore
feels like one of those games I'd rent once from the local movie rental place when I was a kid

girlboss granny with danger haircut lol

Yeah there was a lot of shit in the writing that confused the hell out of me, I think the translation wasn’t great. The English voice acting is pretty good, but they’re working with some bad stuff. The protag even sounds sometimes like the actor has no idea what he’s saying means

Truth, both are good but not great. Damning by faint praise maybe but that’s how it is

hour and a half

so nthing

girlboss granny with danger haircut

all she does is help you while looking normal

I liked the horny fridge but didn’t understand why she was so often replaced by other fridges that are not horny or funny

This game really came closer to addressing my biggest misgivings about open world games and immersive sims than any other game I've played recently.

good sense of progression because enemies are varied and initially tanky but you get to start tearing through them when you get upgrades rather than going from easy to EASY

regenerating enemies with no rewards provides a constant drain on your resources and keeps camps feeling like dangerous places you shouldn't linger in

far cry would have benefit from an alert system. prey would have benefit from doing more to rain your resources so you can't just run away with an zero-scarcity player economy in the 2nd hour of the game. I really think something like the Ecosystem is what the open world genre needs to stop being boring slop.

so nthing

the first few hours of a game receive the most polish and dev time, this is basic game design. if the first few hours are filled with embarrassing marvel dialogue and lame unskippable cutscenes for a story nobody cares about, this does not signal a good game ahead

help you while looking normal

looking normal

lol
here's the thing dude, the game is probably fun. as I said, it probably rises to 6/10. but a 6/10 game with cringe dialogue and forced movie sections is competing for my time with other games, and that's a hard sell
is the juice really worth the squeeze here?

bro you quit before even finishing the tutorial dungeon thinking some granny makes a game without any nigger,fags or trannies with communist villains and a sniveling jew is woke,you're the marvel quip here

communist villains

but both of the main antagonists hate the USSR and want to destroy it. Nobody in the game has a problem with the secret plan to stage a communist uprising in america through the spread of secretly weaponized consumer electronics, they have a problem with the mass enslavement and genocide plans

hate the USSR and want to destroy it

what makes you say that? Sechenov and Molotov want to be in charge,Slime is a cum supremacist and P3 is shook by the plan,only reason he would turn

Not playing until the Denuvo is removo

Sechenov and by extension molotov's plans are the removal of everyone's free will but their own which feels to me like a pretty harsh rejection of communist ideals. P3 is surprised by the plan to overtake America but accepted it pretty fast by my recollection of it

Game should’ve been set in like the 90s after the facility is abandoned or something

Is crispy critters a saying in Russia? And can you explain why some of the dialogue is so fuckin weird? Does it sound better in Russian?

You mean group ownership?It's never mentioned in game
P3 lies to Sechenov and goes to Filiatova after Petrov reveals the US takeover plan,then it's a choice between turning on Sechenov and finding out the Politburo is in on the Atomic Heart project or refusing to kill the uber genius who saved your life

I like the level design and the gameplay is passable enough, they sure did fuck up writing was by never having the protagonist shut the fuck up though yeah.

Is crispy critters a saying in Russia?

In Russian version he says "fucking pies".

Eurojank is peak SOVL

the gameplay is not even remotely that bad

What does this mean

It was overall okay but i only cared for it as possible vk exclusive, hopefully they'l either give up or do worse with sikwell

Its a more floaty BioShock which is frankly a pleasant surprise from eurojank, setting is very unique and each new area had me walking around just looking at the environments. Game is 6/10 had serious bullet sponge problems and the story seemed to stop moving after the initial betrayal until you are at the end.

wow actually looks amazing. i watched a bunch of review when it came out but it seemed average back then

why do you mobile fag have to be pasting tracking links

It's not dogshit, but is far from great...
Obviously, it has a "different" atmosphere to all FPS out there, I wish it had been a literal fallout clone desu.

The robot sisters awoken something in me though...

Pretty alright for eurojank. I don't regret playing it. I still vouch for the underground hospital; running around with a melee weapon bashing things to keep the music going is lightning-in-a-bottle peak gaming.

I'm going to beat the shit out of you because you like the worst thing about the game

enemies infinitely respawn

and also get resurrected by healers that infinitely respawn

and are summoned by cameras that can be destroyed, but guess what

and it's all very deep and challenging because none of them drop ammo or mats at all!

No dude, consult the gif

I refuse to conzoom anything made by subhuman russians.

Unironically a skill issue on your part.

The sexually aggressive vending machine

I actually wish she had far more lines, but Nora (I think her name was) has shockingly few lines that appear when interacting with the vendor station.
I was fully expecting overly sexually charged quips from her whenever I upgraded or bought anything but ended up severely disappointed within the first two hours.

I could only stand 4 hours of it before I checked out.

You did better than me. I only managed one.

youtube.com/watch?v=kw6X01AuE1s&t=10

A good example of the music, this one from the 2nd DLC (the one that's really fucking off the wall and that's saying something) . Also, the lyrics if- accurate - its thematically consistent with the attempt for the protag to be reconnected with his waifu yet the looping nature of the DLC's reality

I wonder if that's the kind of thing the devs would add in updates if people suggested it. That's one thing - so far I have massive respect for the Devs having

4 'major' DLCs included in the Premium Edition / Season Pass

All of them so far are full, expansion style story-advancing content in new locations; at least the first 2 directly follow up big ending choices from the base game

It looks like the 3rd DLC is another major one. Lots of other devs would have fucked off making only the 4th one an expansion style with the other 3 being like some horde mode and skins shit;stuff that's okay, but not anywhere near as preferable as real new content, much less a true "expansion" style DLC. I wonder if it sells more if they'll consider a "second season" of expansions after the first 4 because if they're all like the first 2, I'd easily pay for another season pass of real content, if Mundfish has stuff they want to do and continue the story, new perspectives etc.