Recent reviews by Aerynn

[SPOILERS AHEAD] I really wanted to like this one after enjoying Alison and Brie and Max's Big Bust, but MC's situation is completely and abjectly horrifying. At no point towards the end did I feel like MC was enjoying themselves or having an 'awakening' in other TG games, but rather over the course of in-game months, after getting murdered and enslaved by a narcissistic psycho, gets abused, bullied, humiliated, brainwashed, and gaslighted (both in the traditional sense and magically) to the point where they just accept what's happened to them. The titular mad scientist also just lets anyone have admin access to MC just by asking or by making deals - you can dress that up in sidequests and cutesy dialogue all day but I know pimping when I see it. I genuinely don't want to play HITIAM after this because the promotional material shows Ellie, the war criminal mad scientist, living their happiest best life. I'd rather see Sam/Sera get this reward, however it may manifest, while Ellie rots in jail.

-"Because it's funny", says the mad scientist when MC is really sad about being humiliated
-"You were actually kind of a loser", says the mad scientist when MC is really sad about dying and being enslaved
-"I checked the data, you actually really enjoy being a robot!" says the mad scientist with full admin access to all aspects of the MC's brain and has proven willing and able to cross that line by deleting memories. I believe this statement equally on the level as Emma Frost telling Iceman he's gay.

And don't even get me started on the water bike transformation, where guest characters actually comment how strangely cruel it is. I just can't enjoy the comedy in this one, it feels like I'm expected to laugh at the slave being beaten.

Don't forget the essence of the game. It's about the car.

Slay the Spire meets Poker

It's like old school Gauntlet with a horde mode. It scratches a very particular itch, one that lets you wipe out hundreds of enemies with constantly upgrading and unlocking weapons.

10/10 Masterpiece

I played a little its ok