Recent reviews by crumpled666

I wanted to like this game since the creator says it was inspired by his own struggles with depression and OCD, but the game itself sucks. The 3 hour runtime would be much shorter if your character could move faster. While it is interesting having stamina be related to your asthma, it's more of a gimmick than anything and hinders the gameplay. The asthma isn't used against the player or explored for thematic purposes. There might be only one or two times where I was like 'oh no, my asthma is holding me back,' but overall it just made the game boring.
The story itself isn't engaging, even with the alternate endings. The plot twists are fairly predictable and bland. While the game might have had some replay value at first, the asylum section absolutely butchers it. The enemies seem to be there as conflict for the sake of conflict, and are annoying more than anything. The visual horrors were nice, and I understand the title Neverending Nightmare, but the actual nightmare was that the game never seemed to end and was trying to kill me with boredom.

Seemed like an interesting concept; however, I have put 8 hours into this and have absolutely no idea what I was doing. There are no tutorials or clues for what to do or how things work. Nothing is explained, and yes I googled tutorials and it still didn't make sense. Glad I got this thing on sale. I enjoyed myself, but it was probably because I was just so confused. I don't recommend.

"Say No! More" is one of the most positive and emotionally and IRL empowering games I have ever played. There are games like Celeste which incorporate a message and real life ability (the breathing technique, focusing on the feather) in gameplay, but never before have I felt as empowered through a game as my time playing this one. I actually was crying at the ending. So much heart and positivity was put into this. I want to share this with everyone. The world might just be a better place if we could Say No! More, and others respect that :)

I wish I hadn't bought this, even for $3.99. This is an open world skate game set in the future. It is also a physics game because the upgrades affect your characters' speed, acceleration, friction while grinding, etc. The game is difficult to control and the objectives are not intuitive. There is so much flashing across the visceral world I can't tell what's going on or where to do, even if all I had to do is step on the jump pad in front of me.

Additionally, the colorful design of the game makes zero since, as the storyline of the game is you joining a resistance group against an overpowering government (how original). They say the government is controlling and no entertainment is outlawed--if that's the case, why is the world and its people so colorful and flashy?

Gameplay wise it's mostly collectables with some janky races and a not fun sort of sports game involving a ball you move from checkpoint the checkpoint. The AI is not very smart and the character is difficult to control. Even the camera distance is too close at first. I can't imagine playing this in first person, either.

I wanted to like this game, as it looked like Mirror's Edge meets Skate 3, but unfortunately the gameplay is not satisfying, nor are the characters interesting. As another reviewer mentioned, the two tracked by Hideki Naganuma are great, but the rest of the music is bland. 4/10

DO NOT BUY! This product is not longer supported by the developers. There is not way to change the resolution on a Mac (and it's difficult to do on a PC), making the entire user interface tiny! The UI text is smaller than the text you are reading right now on this steam review. There is no way to zoom in or out and your canvas space is limited, so if you want to create a novel or keep everything in one place you are screwed. A really nice tool that unfortunately is practically unusable due to its interface.

This game will not bring you happiness. It will give you dopamine and plenty of things to do and check off, but overall it feels empty. It is a massive world (or perhaps the character models are smaller than normal) filled with a ton of detail and yet simultaneously emptiness. There are so many missions and collectables and clearly storylines the creators put time and effort into making, but in the end it felt empty. This is likely me projecting, but also the gameplay is kinda lame.

It is, the gameplay is lame! It's spiced up to feel engaging with different attack OPTIONS but it's all the same: mostly mouse clicking and numpad tapping. Everything has high health, including Skevers. Much of the game you can just run around the enemies -- but the developers have prepared for that. There is a spell that will slow you down or prevent you from moving. And in order to pick something up or even enter a new room there can't be enemies around you about to fight. Most of the enemies feel like they were placed in the environment just so there was something in this massive space.

When I wasn't endlessly clicking my mouse on a dumb enemy, the other half of the time was either on a horse getting from A to B or at crafting tables deconstructing and researching items to level up this skill that I would never really use. Light, Medium, and Heavy armor are kinda pointless skills, and so is crafting. This is why I don't play farming games. Yet I did it here because what else was I to do - sell it? What about unlocking things? And leveling up my crafting skills so I one day could do... something?

I just don't see the point of playing. I do things and receive rewards and experience points but I am not engaged the same way I am as I was with Skyrim. Yes, this is an MMO, and it's actually really good! It is filled with a lot and no it isn't empty literally, but after a while of going place to place doing quest after quest just running things started to just feel... bland. That's not the game, there is plenty of new content each location - THIS ISN'T AN UBISOFT GAME. And yet... Why?

I think I am writing this review more so for myself, who logged 80 hours throughout the entirety of April, 2020, and logged another 44 hours over 2.5 days January 2022 after I caught tonsillitis. And then another 31 hours two days after this review... Please stay away from this game. There is plenty to do, yes, but in the end, after each quest, if you pause for a moment (which really you can't since it's an MMO) everything you've done at one location will be done again at another, just with new skins, a new map, different music, and different character motivations. Everything seems to be created to further explore the Lore (or vice versa, they use to Lore to just recycle reskinned characters and quests over and over), and that's how they'll keep making new content forever. It appears like there is plenty to do but really... It's just a facade of button mashing and lore digging.

Now, how is any of what I have just said different than any other video game? The size of it all. This game is huge, and it has to be: it's an MMO. And honestly, this is not a bad game. I'd say it's a great MMO, honestly. BUT. I can't recommend it because in the end I wasn't engaged WITHIN MY HEART. My brain liked it, and my video game addict liked it. It has character and characters, and somehow they have avoided the Ubisoft trap (and that is perhaps because of the Lore. In furthering the development and exploration of the Lore, characters and quests don't necessarily feel like an obvious copy/paste).

But I still can't get over all that emptiness. For an MMO I didn't see that many people, and there wasn't enough content encouraging me to engage with the community. It doesn't have the same immersement as Skyrim - something about the characters and storylines and perhaps how the world just wasn't AS big and full of empty nothings filled with fake enemies. Idk, the comparison to Skyrim (a single player RPG) and this MMO would be another Review (or Essay, rather, at this point).

If you absolutely must play a game, feeling like your already full library is full of boring games... Then no, don't play this game. Treat your time on Earth like you would an Elder Scrolls MMO. Go learn REAL skills. Go acquires materials at a grocery store. Learn to cook. Take a class. Find a hobby. Learn to sew. Read a book (or just a chapter or one, I don't care). Just please go live your life.

Please go outside.

Gameplay has potential but is pretty lackluster. Level design is not great. Oh my god the characters and their dialogue suck. Save your money and 26GB of HDD space.

Why do I have to drive on the left side of the road?

Really wanted to like this game. Unfortunately the execution is not great. Choices are too limited. Has this dad never heard of compromises? Maybe if his work ethic was better he'd get his novel done—and not destroy his relationships in doing so.

Lovely! The Ocarina of Time of typing games. Wish there was more content though, but otherwise a great experience.