Recent reviews by flea eater

I really want to like this game, but it runs so poorly that it's a pain to play. It's extremely disappointing that video-game giants like this consistently fail to deliver optimized and accessible products. My PC more than meets the advertised requirements to run this game on "high" quality and yet it jitters and stutters like all hell. Extremely disappointing. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this garbage.

i want to like this game but it's extremely hit or miss. just like ready or not, its AI is hyper-aggressive and so accurate that it's impossible to survive. i'm not sure if something changed, but according to friends they had a great experience playing with two people. we played with five and it was near unplayable. if this game has difficulty scaling according to the fullness of your party - get rid of that ♥♥♥♥. for one reason or another this was damn near unplayable with five people. the AI were beyond unfair. its promising but i'm not recommending anyone buy it solely on promise. we've seen a lot of early access titles that look promising and fail to deliver.

The kind of horror game that I couldn't wait to finish - and solely because I wanted it to be over quickly.
I was skeptical right off the bat with the off-brand Aliens style space ship interior. Always a bad sign. Setting aside my own personal gripe with the assets used- the game was boring and uninspired. The gimmick of LIDAR doesn't actually help this game function as a horror game. Almost the entire playtime of the game revolves around walking mostly-aimlessly through hallways while occasionally coming across an enemy. The enemy encounters are extremely telegraphed. Any time you see a table you can hide under you immediately know an enemy will be nearby. Also, the enemies are very easy to avoid. I eventually stopped hiding under the tables entirely.

The story is not at all explained to you until the very end of the game, where right before the credits the entire lore is dumped onto you all at once. I guess because they couldn't figure out how to fit it into the game through anything else but text and audio logs.

The scares were not impressive at all. Almost every scare in this game involved seeing something standing still at the end of a hallway move when you get near it, or a monster jumping in your face and a loud noise playing when you walk through a door. The world building was not at all interesting. The level design felt extremely random and without a consistent theme. There's a point in the game where you encounter a huge statue of a screaming human face, which I can only assume was supposed to be a monument of some kind. The game seems to be set on a space station/moon base of some kind, so what kind of garbage ass set design is that? Its presence is never explained and there's nothing that relates to it in the story at all. There is basically no reason for it to be there other than to be a big uninspired set-piece.

As I said in the beginning, LIDAR serves almost no purpose in this game. There were very few moments where I actually was impressed by its usage. I feel like you could easily have just given the protagonist a flashlight instead of LIDAR-vision and it wouldn't have significantly changed the experience of the game at all.

Overall, the only thing I actually liked about this game was the voice acting and the music. I can only imagine 83% of players gave this a positive review because people just objectively don't understand what makes a good horror game. This was a very run of the mill, average, and unimpressive horror game.

i play through the entire half life series probably at least three times a year at this point. there's a reason why people call this the greatest game series of all time.

it's a good game, but it's not nearly as good as people make it out to be. this is one of those "funny screaming youtubers play together and scream really loud" kinds of games. except that isn't really that funny. and that's all this game has going for it.

this game has flaws. it's buggy and weird, the monsters act weird, and the audio is definitely weird. you can literally boost the gain on your mic so high that when you talk it just blasts everyone in the lobby's headphones out.

but honestly i wouldn't change much about it. the experience of this game is something that shouldn't be "fixed". it's a game that, while flawed, definitely had love put into it. and i enjoy it. it has soul, it has personality, and it's fun. it's really enjoyable and i hope they keep updating it. i honestly hope they don't even end up patching out some of the funnier bugs.

This game is fun. Some days are bad. But generally I enjoy it. I'll say that every single update they do ♥♥♥♥♥ this game even harder. All the balance changes are ass and they should really just STOP UPDATING THIS GAME and let it live as it is right now.

But, y'know. Blizzard sucks. So they're gonna ruin this game harder anyway. I still enjoy it either way. Most of the balance changes aren't even that noticeable besides making certain characters more annoying to deal with/play than they were before.

Cassidy's ult is still useless as balls but sure, let's buff Sombra because she wasn't already annoying enough.

I feel like I have to change my review. It was positive, but I can't recommend it anymore. It's very limited in its scope. That beginner-friendly label feels like it's more-so because it just plain doesn't allow you to do anything that ISN'T beginner friendly.

I was holding out for a while that this would be updated soon and a lot of these shortcomings could be ironed out. But, as it stands, this program is very limited and it has been a long while with zero status updates on supposed improvements. If it gets a half-decent update I'd be willing to recommend it again, but without those improvements I can't.

Idunno, man. This.. experience, in many ways, blows me away. It's an experience that's quite unlike any other. The art, music, storytelling, etc are all very fantastic. Very. As a piece of art? This game flourishes. It is beauty wrapped in wonder. I love this world, I love the creatures that make it up. I want nothing more than to experience everything there is to experience in Rain World. See everything there is to see.

As a game, Rain World sucks. Hard. It is, and it sucks to say this - the worst game I have ever had the misfortune of playing. Rain World is unfair, brutal, uninspired, detached, and so much more. The fact that only 11% of people who have played this have earned the achievement related to beating the normal-difficulty character tells you a lot. I can tell you that 89% of people are not wrong.

You will die. Over, and over again. To things completely out of your control. Dropwigs sitting on the edge of the next screen will instantly kill you when you load the room. Lizards will sit at the exits of pipes, scavs will snipe you from across the map. Those with a negative IQ will tell you that you just have a skill issue and that all of those things can be overcome.

That is technically true. You can beat any obstacle simply by throwing yourself at it over and over until you learn how to beat it. But it makes for an incredibly unexciting, boring, and repetitive game.

Each character in Rain World only has about an hour or two of gameplay. But it will take you several days on your first attempt to complete due to the fact that without a walkthrough you will be wandering around aimlessly for much of that time. The game makes no effort to guide you towards your objectives, nor does it help you get there. The game presents almost 20-some odd regions to explore, all of them massive. If you make a wrong turn, that will take you hours to go back on.

At almost every step of the way, Rain World fails as a game. It isn't fun.
It's really nice to look at though. So go ahead and watch a youtuber play through it so you don't have to. Enjoy the art this game has to offer.

But don't play it. It sucks. Hard. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.

I like it, but you should be warned that there's very little to actually do. At least it feels like there's not that much to do. With only collecting some story elements here and there, exploring the planets and asteroids, fighting aliens.. it does get old fast. But I do have to say that the scale is very impressive. From the planets down to every single individual little asteroid floating between them, you sure can land and explore every inch; and you might just find something among them that you didn't expect to see.
It has come a long way over the course of its life. If you compare what it looks like now to its first appearance on the steam store, it's impressive. It's also impressive the dev is still updating it after all this time.
For that reason, I'd say my $15 was "worth" it. The game's still a long way from finished, but I hope one day it'll reach that point.