Recent reviews by Shoujo

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After playing, all I've realised is that I never want to be in a relationship. Ever.

This expansion makes me crave even more from this game. This game is honestly the most incredible game I've played in a long time, and the expansion made it even better. Now you get more tools and the ability to hack alongside new people. It's a more immersive experience than the base game was, and that's saying something as the base game was incredible. The ending is incredible. There's a small buildup to it, and you won't notice it until it happens. This expansion does no wrong. It's everything right about this game, and then some. Amazing. Truly incredible.

The soundtrack for this expansion is extremely good. Every song has it's own tone and vibe to it, but no matter what you won't miss the pulse-pounding beat each song has. Extremely fun to listen to, and a wonderful soundtrack as you play the game.

This game is absolutley wonderful. The game is almost like Zelda, with the exploration and top-down perspective, but at the same time it's so much more than that. The story that is told takes hours upon hours to uncover. If you think you're finished, you probably aren't. There's so much to do, so much to see in this game, that you'll be questioning how it became 12:00 am when you KNOW you only played for an hour. Long story short, buy it and play it. Wonderful.

I really, really disliked this game. The graphics are all over the place, with some elements looking good and somewhat realistic, and then others looking bad, to the point of them just being white cubes with absolutley no design. The hitboxes on the spikes are horrible, making the game NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE, not just a really difficult challenge. All in all, I have to give it a 0/10.

Rating: 2/10

This game, if you can even call it that, is really bad. Like, really bad. I have quite a few reasons why. Let's begin, shall we?

Graphics
The graphics in this game aren't terrible, but they aren't great either. There are only two animations I have issues with, and those are the fire and the explosion animations. Jesus, they look terrible! It seems like those animations would be used in a cliclé cartoon rather than a video game that's supposed to be something like Mega Man. I would say I prefered fire and explosions from the classic NES games, and that's really saying something. The graphics for the floor get much worse as you turn down your settings, but I couldn't notice a difference in anything else, really.

Preformance
This game runs really badly for me. Even if all of my settings are turned all the way down to low, I can't play this game without getting lag spikes every five seconds. That gets extremely annoying after a while. My computer isn't bad, because I can run Grand Theft Auto 5 much better than I can run this game. Optomization of this game could be much better. If this was my only issue, I would buy it on Xbox One or something and play it there, but it isn't.

Gameplay
I really hate the gameplay in this game. When you first start, it feels like it'll be like a classic Mega Man game, except for the guy in the lab coat standing right in front of you. I have no idea how he didn't die, considering the streets we're running on are being invaded by robots of all shapes and sizes. Enemies are harder than ever to kill, which wouldn't be much of a problem, except for the fact that you have two not very efficent options of getting rid of them. You can either shoot at the robots until they just die, or you can dash into them (when they're "stunned," mind you) to get rid of them. I hate this so much. It seems pointless to just keep shooting at them, but it's even worse when you have to run directly at them to kill them. What game does that? What game? Another issue I have is the grunts your character makes when you fall off of a box. You grunt when you land from a box? A FREAKING BOX?! Seriously! I'm a human being, and I don't grunt in pain when I jump off of something that's a few inches above my height. This guy is a cyborg. It shouldn't hurt him to land, much less off of a box that's only a few inches taller than him. This game removed the slide as well as charging up the buster, and those two options would have been very helpful.

Story
So, basically, robotics have advanced greaty over the years, which was just perfect when the world fell into chaos and panic, because they were used to keep everything in order! So, people were getting stressed out and stuff because of "peace keeping measurements" (which was basically just bringing in robots), and someone decided to start a "Battle Colosseum." I mean, I can't really see how on earth this would help, but okay, let's just go with it. So, Dr. White (Ha Ha) created 9 robots to battle in this event, and they all placed very highly. To nobody's surprise, an act of cyber terror was unleashed, and nearly all the robots went rogue. They then took over the world. Original story. Anywho, the virus continues to spread, and somehow, Beck, AKA Mighty No. 9, remains unaffected. I don't know either. He was the "weakest link" and now the fate of the world rests on him. Fun times. To be honest, I didn't really care for the story.

Notes and Gripes
One thing I hate about this game is the lack of keyboard support. On the main menu, the game only displays the controller controls, which leads me to believe it would take me a while to learn the keyboard controlls, assuming they aren't displayed in-game.

Recommendation: Don't buy this game.

This game is amazing. I've been playing it so much recently, diging into the secrets, and just having fun with it. (Not logged on my steam account, removed the DLL). The game has an incredible combat system, great fights, weird and cool enemies and friends, and not to mention so many secrets. The music in the game is freaking incredible. I bought the soundtrack as well! This game... I have no words. Buy it.

I normally don't write reviews for games, but this one deserves a good one.

This game is amazing. It gives you a hacking type of feel without shoving advanced commands in your face. Sure, there are commands in this game you should learn, but how you play it is up to you. You could use the GUI, or you could play the whole game using the command line. Its nice that you get a choice, and this is a more modern type of hacking game then Uplink was.

I also love how extensive this game is. If you connect to your own system and run the command openCDTray, your CD drive actually opens up! I wasn't expecting that at all! Another thing, on the bootup screen for the HackNetOS Virtual PC, it actually displays your hard drive name. This game is fun and extensive, and its so cool! What more could you ask for?

If you are a fan of text games, or like adventure games, or liked Uplink, buy this game now. You will love it.