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Through moments that just makes you insane after you keep dying and going back to the start, I believe this would not just be a recreation of Hotline Miami, but also a creative way with a challenge to reminisce Hotline Miami. Although not only does it show inspiration from Hotline Miami, it also shows bullet time, which has been inspired through many games, which I am very used to when it comes to bullet/pellet hell situations. Now, the mechanics, as mentioned before, the game has many aspects that lets me enjoy the game, with its difficulty increasing as one progresses with a chance of life-saving benefits/perks and environment layout through the game, giving one life only to finish, and one fair mechanic of enabling and disabling weapons, that gives a pro and con for one run. For the soundtracks, it reminds me of Carpenter Brut's music used in intense levels in Hotline Miami 2, as well as Ultrakill and Cyberpunk's soundtrack style which sometimes fit for certain areas to groove to.

Overall I'd give it

10/10 for the top-down shooter-esque style,
9/10 for its classic retro style graphics with gore
8/10 for its mechanics
8.5/10 for its soundtrack

Therefore, a rating of 8.9/10 for this game

why did i fell into this rabbit hole?

General Overview: Aperture Desk Job was a brilliant and interesting tech demo based from the Portal series. Supposedly, this game was to showcase enhanced capabilities for mainly Steam Deck, and alternatively, controllers with the support of gyroscope. However, the only disadvantages of this game is that it doesn't support mouse and keyboard further on, making it costly but lesser compared to The Lab (in which it required VR) and Aperture Hand Lab (in which it requires VR with hand-tracking support). From my experience, I had to wait for a month to play this after the release, because I didn't have a proper controller at the time and I had to buy a DualSense controller afterwards. 7.5/10

Plot: [SPOILERS] The plot takes place in another universe of the Portal series, as confirmed by Erik Wolpaw, moreover, multiverses were also explained by Cave Johnson - that not everything we believe in the main Portal series is canon. With that said as a fact, we are within the Perpetual Testing Initiative for experimenting toilets that we can manually control to shoot bullets and we also get to meet Cave Johnson, just his consciousness being trapped within a colossal metalized head of himself. The concept is innovative, creative, and somewhat dark in the end, however, the concept is supposedly reused from a cut part of Portal 2 based on Cave Johnson showing up originally to let him die in peace. 9/10

Before anyone starts complaining, I played Season Three after I played Michonne

It's underrated for sure, but it truly is based from the comic series and not directing to any of Clementine's story/adventures. It uses Season Two's design but with improvements, and has great and interesting, but short plot for a prequel for Issue 127. Michonne is what I expected it to be, a brutal, dark, and an overall bad-ass game focusing on Michonne herself; I actually don't mind it being as brutal as it is compared to the video game series though, although ANF still stands as the most extreme and brutal of the series, considering this is an exclusive spin-off for the comics only; it's dark, because of her reminiscing her children and her past; and overall bad-ass gameplay, as Michonne is a skilled swordswoman and quick thinker based on the comics, now comparing it to the performance of the video games, it's pretty much just fast-paced and satisfying.

For the episodes and for a spoiler-proof review, I'll just oversimplify of what I can review on.

Episode 1 was dark at first, but was getting greater later in the episode. 8/10
Episode 2 was a great rising action of the story, although brutality seems to be rising as well. 7/10
Episode 3 was greatly intense and not widely intense like ANF. 7.5/10

Overall, I would give it a 7.5/10.

weird yet interesting story, still feels like im playing half-life although its more all about thinking, overall the cake is a lie. 10/10

deeper story, innovative thinking, overall sik big brain play. 10/10

fast-paced style, sik music. 9/10

intense gameplay & gunplay, fine difficulty; makes it hot. 10/10

max pimp, same-but-different gameplay. 7/10

dramatic story, slow-mo gunplay. 7/10