Recent reviews by Haunter

So if you grew up in the 90s... Its basically Reader Rabbit.

Instead of a teacher holding a folder over your hands so you don't look down, its a guy with a gun instead.

Its definitely more COMBAT than it is racing. The meta seems to be spamming the boost (available every few seconds) riding against a wall, and using the attack to ONE SHOT enemy drivers.

This is not a racing game. Its a combat game with some racing elements. For that reason, its not for me and I don't recommend it - especially for $60. I'm sure some people will like it, and gameplay aside, it seems well put together with a 10-15hr campaign/story.

Honestly not that far off from my experience (actual class of 09)

Bloomed in highschool, so every guy suddenly wanted to f me, every teacher looked for way too long, or claimed my clothes were distracting (for him or the male students, never got an answer) and everyone is smoking weed and trying not to get knocked up.

Oh wait I'm supposed to be reviewing the game. Yeah it's class of 09. They hit the nail on the head. Honestly wish I had my own ride or die like Jecka tho.

This seemed like exactly the kind of game I was after - chasing the Battlefront 2003 vibe.
However, the games engine, or something, make it simply unplayable.

Even with lowered settings and trying to mess with the INI the UI blur is horrible. No matter what I tried I could not get UI elements to stop jittering around my screen, and firing made everything 10x worse.

Maybe if this game was ported to another engine, or the devs took a long time to work out the kinks it would be good, but given its 10 years old in Early Access I assume it is either abadonware, or a solo dev unlikely to be able to fix the engine issues.

Its a massive shame too, because this seemed to fulfil the long-endurance AI battles I remember enjoying so much on my PS2 as a kid.

If you don't mind the blurriness and jittering of the UI I am sure its fine, but for me its a non-starter.

what a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke of a game. The match balance and game modes are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful. Nothing like the original games on Playstation

dude this is worse than the WORST emulator version ever.

Grab it on dolphin.

Haha airbrake go BRRR... wait that was my wing scraping on the wall.

This is the worst ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ metriodvania i have ever ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ played.
They completely threw away EVERYTHING that made the first game great, and turned EVERY single boss encounter into that stupid Arena DLC from the first.

Every Boss arena is actually just a extra-HP regular enemy, that endlessly spawns 2-3 adds every 10-15 seconds. Some of these (the grey bug in the ant area) spawn adds which take 6+ hits to kill and take up about 1/4th of the room with their own attacks.

They wasted HOW MANY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ YEARS on development, and THIS is what they have to show for it.

Hey - if you liked the Arena of trash enemies from first game you'll love this one, otherwise, this is an absolute waste of time and I wish I had my $20 back.

This has seriously one of the most addictive gameplay loops of any roguelike ive played in a LONG time.

The build diversity is great, and at least on Hard difficulty it feels like everything WORKS... Rare in these types of games like RoR2 basically ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on you if you don't have a perfect build RNG.
This game is fun as hell regardless of the build.

Its early access but gawdayum is the core loop addicting... Run in rat/fight your way to loot, repeat.

Death isn't overly punishing, but you lose anything you've picked up, what you took in, and have the opportunity to get your backup UPGRADES (not contents) and guns you went in with.

Painful enough it sucks - especially if you double die, but not painful enough to dissuade experimenting and having FUN.