Recent reviews by Belemonguin

I mildly enjoy it. Coming from Hunt: Showdown it's interesting to play an extraction shooter where people don't always kill eachother. Probably will drop this game after 150-200 hours. Let's see how wrong I am.

Edit: 110. Can't find a reason to play anymore.

Would love to have a bit more control over props and snaping windows to the same height

Terribly addictive. Not that this is a bad thing, but this was the only reason I dropped it :)

Many small minigames make up one big system that is fun to interact with. You always need to do everything at once, but there is no rush in doing it. If you spend more time in one part of the game. Play at your own pace, have fun, visit your friends to cook together.

Started this game only knowing that it's a lovely farming sim for relaxation and fun. Turns out it’s a very tiresome farming sim.

My first playthrough was in singleplayer. Most of the tasks take a ton of time to do, eat up all the energy and yield nearly no results. The game does a bad job at explaining how things work. Where do I get the materials? How do I replenish energy when I run out of it after watering crops if food is not the option? Where do I get a quartz refiner? Plus you need to do everything at once, as all the activities in the game give materials to boost each other. And, oh, don’t forget to spend a whole day running around the town looking for specific people because they have super important quests for you and get sad if you don’t talk to them.


The fact that sprinklers are expensive and water a very tiny area is probably the worst decision in farming sim I’ve ever seen. It feels like you have to treat the game very seriously, have wiki open at all times, know every single way to optimise everything and every exploit to get things running unless you are fine with getting almost no progression, no quests done and your chickens are unhappy because, as it turned out after 25 hours of playing, they need to be manually fed if they can’t go outside.

Again, you can play with your friends. The progression gets faster, but if the friend that likes tending to crops is not playing, no one can play.

Dropping this game. Too repetitive.

I was invited by my friends to play the game, they asked if I had any "assignments". As a newbie, I didn't really care about some dailies or whatever. I just wanted to play! Things get unlocked over time on their own, right? WRONG! As it turned out the most important progression in the game, unlocking new guns, is made through those assignments, which are not just "do something X times". You have to convince your lobby to go do your quests, then help them do their stuff, then do more stuff to unlock new guns and get some cool stuff.

But, well, I guess when you get your cool stuff the game gets cool and interesting, right? Nope. Killing bugs becomes less annoying, but that's it. Then you go out and do more same stuff you did before, totally in the same way. But this time you know how to optimize the process and you can speedrun the mission to... to... go on the next mission that is played completely the same way as any other mission.

Changing my review.

The game used to be clanky, hard to control, frustruating little bugs here and there. Devs have fixed everything. Now it runs smooth as butter and I can enjy the fast-paced fights.

Good thing, what else can I say?

For me the charm of this game is in casual 24 player match, where your individual impact is tiny and nobody cares how good you are. To the point that you can spent all match trying to hit someone with a shovel mid-jump and it's considered a valid and common way to play this game. It's not something I play to win, it's a game where you learn to do cool tricks that feel like abusing the game engine, but then turns out that this is how people get so many kills.

Was it my first shooting game? Probably. Definitely the one that made me fall in love with fps genre. It was already an old game when I joined in, I saw it's last updates. The Finals might take it's place as a fast-paced team shooter, yet not many other games have this amount of chaos going on where you don't have to worry about being unskilled buttarm.

Changing my review, as I released that I started playing the game in a very wrong way. I still say that the game is tough and unforgiving to the new players, especially to ones who have no experience in PvP of this kind. But I got into another lever of "the game is hard" as I was playing with friends who both have high MMR, so I spent most of the time dead, watching them butchering lower rank lobbies game put us into.

So, let me say it again: the game is beautiful, lazy and slow as f*ck with a ton of time to chat with your teammates, but very rapidly escalates into short brutal fights or tense paranoid hide-and-seek. No idea how people play with randoms, as communicating in the team is crucial for survival. Don't be afraid to play solo - better this way, than having a noisy rushing idiot in your team. Or have a friend to play with.

And again, I need to warn any newcomer, that the game is hard. You will die a lot, but each lucky kill or even a landed shot has an impact on the fight and feels important. Each silent step in the attic, rustle of the grass outside, a shadow flickering in the distance or a click right behind a door you are about to enter has a meaning. It takes around 50 hours to understand what's where and 100 hours more to see how fights work here. For me probably even more as I spent most of my playtime waiting to be revived :)

Controls are so ridiculously detailed, that it is uncomfortable to use them without full sized car like controller. The tutorial tells you what buttons to press, but does not tell you how everything works, so if you are unfamiliar with real life cars, good luck figuring that out.

All of the "played" time I've spent restarting the game, trying to figure out why nothing is working. I could drive with the keyboard, clicking it like a piano, which is uncomfortable. I bought this game specifically to use with a steering wheel, but because the car stalls all the time for unknown reason I could not even test if it is installed correctly and works properly. Seems that the game has some troubles with identifying buttons on my wheel.

I am learning to drive irl, never touched a real car before that, and because of absolute absence of any explanation of what goes wrong I had to return the game. Good job on making everything realistic, but if a real car is easier to drive than a virtual one, something is wrong.

In cinematography classes we've been told what kind of stuff people fall for very easily and you only need to add that into your art or story so that a common consumer would say "oh wow I love it!". Ori is a great representation of that lesson. I am a little bit confused on how well that works. That's hilarious. Even though I could easily guess what is going to happen, it still made me cry. I love it!

The gameplay is a bit too linear, but It's ok. Dynamic and fun to play, sometimes challenging, sometimes my fingers are about to fall off.