I was having a good time, but then I made a fatal mistake:
Forced to take a break, instead of keeping it on pause for days like Haemimont Games designers do, I quit the game.
When I tried to resume, I was back at the base, with no clue where I was when I quit, all incomplete challenges reset, and every single one of the 8000+ bullet sponges I had killed were respawned.
It takes only 2 digits on an IQ to understand the purpose of checkpoints, but even that low a standard is rarely met these days.

Needless to say, my curiosity, my interest, my entertainment and my desire to continue fell straight down to zero in a jiffy.
That's also my final rating, consequently: 0/10.
Not an exaggeration. If one shoos players away when one is paid to engage them, one also invalidates all actual good work from their more talented colleagues.

Conclusion: 10 years ago, incompetence was already widespread enough that a studio could fail in a genre as straightforward as the Hack n'Slash.

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