Bad Rats

Bad Rats

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rabbit Jun 24, 2021 @ 1:56pm
How do people dislike this game
like just look at the legit wikipedia article:

Bad Rats was released to critical acclaim, with many calling the game a masterpiece and one of the greatest video games of all time.On the review aggregator Metacritic, Bad Rats was the highest-rated game of 2017 and holds the largest number of perfect reviews of any game from any year. Industry publications including IGN,GameSpot,Polygon, Entertainment Weekly, Eurogamer, Electronic Gaming Monthly,GamesRadar+, and Game Informer ranked Bad Rats the best game of 2017.

The open-world gameplay received praise. Jose Otero of IGN described it as "a masterclass in open-world design" and "a wonderful sandbox full of mystery, dangling dozens upon dozens of tantalizing things in front of you that just beg to be explored".GameSpot called it the most impressive game Invent4 had made, writing that it "takes designs and mechanics perfected in other games and reworks them for its own purposes to create something wholly new, but also something that still feels quintessentially like a Thinking man's game ... It's both a return to form and a leap into uncharted territory, and it exceeds expectations on both fronts." Edge wrote that the game world was "an absolute, and unremitting, pleasure to get lost in" and that "the magic of being given all the tools in the opening hour is the knowledge that the solution to any problem is already at your disposal, and you can always change tack".

According to Kyle Orland of Ars Technica, "after spending a week utterly immersed in Invent 4's open-world reimagining of the tried-and-true Puzzle game formula, it's hard to return to the more formulaic entries of the franchise's past". Journalists commented on unexpected results not intended by the developers,with serendipitous moments proving popular on social media. Chris Plante of The Verge predicted that whereas prior open-world games tended to feature prescribed challenges, Bad Rats would influence a new generation of games with open-ended problem-solving.

Reviewers lauded the sense of detail and immersion. Kotaku recommended turning off UI elements in praise of the indirect cues that contextually indicate the same information, such as Fat Rat shivering in the cold or effects on the environment. Reviewers also commented on the unexpected permutations of interactions between the rats, cat, environment, and items,many of which were shared widely on social media.

Jim Sterling was more critical than most, giving Bad Rats a 10/10 score. They criticized the difficulty, Lore, and level design, but praised the open world and variety of content. Other criticism focused on the unstable frame rate and the low resolution of 900p; updates addressed some of these problems.