I just cannot enjoy this game

[peasan't von peasan't]

I appreciate the analogous story behind its development. The art is cool. Conceptually, it's on point--mostly. The music is pretty neat at times. It has a certain charm to it. It has a strong visual narrative presence...

But that's about all I like.

This game is a game that I wish I could like more than I do, but because of clear and present design choices--not faulty programming or bugs--but design choices, I can't help but state the obvious:

Rain World sucks.

Yeah. I don't care if it's your favorite game or if your admiration for the development and its "meaning" have given you some foggy goggles to objective reality. But objective reality, at some point, must be given proper attention.

The controls are horrendous. I don't care if you've wasted so much time in this game to develop the necessary skills to overlook this fact--which is obviously true from the very first moment you get into serious combat--the controls are terrible.

There's no learning curve to the controls. Anyone who tells you different is lying. The whole thing relies on your pounce mechanic to avoid damage. If you don't pounce--you will die. Period. So let's look at this pounce mechanic:

Oh, I see we have two options. First, we could set the pounce to move in the direction of our Mouse. Well, that just seems dandy! Let's put it into practice.

Oh no! I need the Mouse to aim at the creatures, so whenever I want to dash, I move into incoming damage! That means this setting is broken.

Okay. No problem. Let's try the other. Let's set it to move in the direction of WASD.

Well, what do you know? I'm not rolling into incoming damage.

But, oh no! What's this? Now the real flaw of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game's design comes to the forefront:

Not only am I in a major fight where 10 enemies are on screen, they're moving around all over, half of them are charging me for a melee attack from all angles, the other half are using projectiles from all angles and they're warping to-and-fro, but now I also have to manage two entirely different directional inputs simultaneously while keeping track of all that crap. But, at least I have a heal button! Except, I don't get i-frames when I'm using the Heal, so while I'm healing myself, I'm taking damage because I'm movement locked during the animation, so whatever healing I might have gained from using the Heal, I lose anyway.

And let's not even talk about the pounce puzzles, shall we?

This isn't fun.

At all.

This is what happens when someone designs a game who doesn't actually give a ♥♥♥♥ about the people who will play it. This is the equivalent of a writer who has this great idea for a great Sci-Fi story, except he wastes page after page after page after page writing about backstory instead of just telling the damn story.

You know why a game like Zelda works and this game doesn't?

Because it doesn't require you to keep track of 15 things at once.

You know why Dark Souls, a notoriously difficult game, works and this doesn't?

Because it doesn't require you to keep track of 15 things at once.

Attacks are clearly telegraphed. You have two, MAYBE THREE, things to contend with at any one time. But even then, you have the ability to control things if they get a little out of hand. There's none of that in this game.

I'm sure there are plenty of you kids out there who need to feel special by putting me down by saying how much I just suck at the game or whatever. But there's a point where getting good isn't going to make up for the fact that managing all the ♥♥♥♥ you have to manage in one simple encounter is not fun. It's not even challenging. A challenge is something you want to beat. This isn't a challenge. It's just a slow burn until you realize you don't like the game.

Add to this the story is non-existent.

Yeah, I know you know what it's all about. Because you read about it somewhere outside of the game. But that's just it. If you have to go outside of the game to understand what the hell is going on, then the game isn't explaining itself clearly, if at all. And this game doesn't.

I should be able to understand the story of the game by playing it.

I don't.

There's an explosion. Some gooey black stuff. Some giants with open mouths. Your dude coughs blood. A dog shows up periodically. I kill stuff. I take elevators. I find gold coins. I find health packs. I pull levers that make red dots appear in the center. That's all I understand in this game.

There's no explanation for what you're doing. No why. You don't even really know what you're supposed to be doing in context to a narrative. You're just moving around a pastel, broken world from one frustrating encounter to the next--and there's no reason for it. It's even worse than Dark Souls because you're not even collecting items which give you lore.

And the map makes no friggin sense. I wish I could chalk that up to bad design too, but frankly, it's such an inglorious mess, I think it's actually buggy. Worse, the creator probably intended for it to be so useless that he designed it specifically to appear to be bug-ridden garbage.

This is not a good game.

[Wolfofdoom3]

Agreed. We should get more i-frames when healing. I also want rot tentacles sprouting out of my back that eat enemies attacking my rear.

[Cits]

you're 115 hours short of 3000.

[☼Arkonev☼]

Bro sorry that happened to you

[peasan't von peasan't]

Originally posted by Wolfofdoom3:

Agreed. We should get more i-frames when healing. I also want rot tentacles sprouting out of my back that eat enemies attacking my rear.

omg hi wolfofdoom

[Wolfofdoom3]

Originally posted by peasan't von peasan't:

Originally posted by Wolfofdoom3:

Agreed. We should get more i-frames when healing. I also want rot tentacles sprouting out of my back that eat enemies attacking my rear.

omg hi wolfofdoom

Hello! Do you know me?

[Lochlann]

Dark Souls' exaggerated reputation has done nothing good for the series except steer it into a different direction, and ultimately moving away from what made the original DS1 one of the all-time greatest games ever made

[Lordly Cinder]

What? Almost 3000 hours and now you say the game sucks? Thats crazy... Thats an immense amount of time, I dont think my EU4 playtime is 3k. Almost no games singlplayer games are played for that amount of time.

To have that many hours contradicts your point. We are not talking about even 100 hours but thousands.. I love the game and havnt played that much and I own it on console too with dlc on both. At this point your free to play another game and no longer enjoy RW because youve played it for so dang long lol

[Lordly Cinder]

I have a new game for you Barotrauma.

[Stoic⁧⁧Sirius]

Originally posted by Lordly Cinder:

What? Almost 3000 hours and now you say the game sucks? Thats crazy... Thats an immense amount of time, I dont think my EU4 playtime is 3k. Almost no games singlplayer games are played for that amount of time.

To have that many hours contradicts your point. We are not talking about even 100 hours but thousands.. I love the game and havnt played that much and I own it on console too with dlc on both. At this point your free to play another game and no longer enjoy RW because youve played it for so dang long lol

Not to worry, you simply lack the IQ needed to understand his point (mine is the last three digits of π btw which is why I'm in total agreement with OP)

Originally posted by Lordly Cinder:

I have a new game for you Barotrauma.

Another bad game and I can tell that with a 110% certainty and that's because whenever I try to play a level I crash into a wall and sink immediately, which is just one of the myriad issues the game has

[SharkBait]

um we are talking about rain world right??? Where did dark souls come into this??? Where did gold coins and med packs come into this too???

[Stoic⁧⁧Sirius]

Originally posted by Pennellabs:

um we are talking about rain world right??? Where did dark souls come into this??? Where did gold coins and med packs come into this too???

That's odd... Your game must be corrupted. Have you tried verifying integrity of game files to see if that brings the coins and health packs back?

[ErraticPulse]

I was going to laugh at you but I realized that you had almost 3k hours on this game and it was just a copypasta

[Sigh-Fi]

lmaoooo this is really good. i want the version of rain world with open-mouthed giants, coughing blood, and a dog showing up, please

[ChekinNooget]

videocult just add a battle pass already smh

[linda420]

wait what do you mean you take elevators? bro you can use the wall pounce move tech mechanic its way faster and saves you like a ton of time -_-