Recent reviews by Super Kami Guru

Damn good game that consumed me for dozens of hours. Just a general improvement over the first game. More varied puzzle elements, and not as many... "gotchas" about using your body to break circuits of lasers. Which I found made this game much more intuitive and less frustrating. I was also quite in the mood for some optimism and humanism in my game, and this certainly succeeded in that. I do wish the game didn't seem to chide me anytime I put in a word of caution though.

I just nominated this game for the steam awards for the category I made up that I call The "Has a Great Personality" Award. This game.. is not a technical masterpiece. Its a graphics are 2 generation behind other current releases. Its physics are not... not from this planet. Its gameplay is not the deepest. Most of its content is recycled, and a good chunk of it is a grind.

So why am I recommending it?

Because this game achieves something that few games do. It has a genuine charm. It is campy in all the best ways. Now some say that being campy is a negative, that it does not stand up to modern art that we collectively take seriously. But to accept and love "campiness" in media is to love the ridiculousness flaws that make you truly love something. Not that you are looking past them, but you love them for those flaws. And loving a piece of media for its camp says more about the consumer and last longer than any of the more generic actually (and more "objectively") good games we all play in a year.

Despite everything this game does wrong I cannot help but love it for its old B movie plot and aethestic. Being able to unite with 4 friends online as we charge an army of insects singing the EDF anthem is some of the best fun I have had in any game in years. This game always makes me smile and make me want to watch any of the campy, schlok you could see on mystery science theater. It is glorious and you should genuinely give this game a shot, because it might just win you over even when have some shinier/smoother game waiting for you in your steam library.