Recent reviews by Goldenhope

It's really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ when you start with a reputation for being better than all battlefield games after like, 4, and you end up in a state where youre less fun to play than 2042. aint even worth coming back to even if they fix their ♥♥♥♥ but all the guns except like three aren't fun to play anymore, and it plays more like CoD's bastardization of battlefield than anything else now.

Fun, cute game for about 70% of the game, up until you reach the point where you need to gather the last key item (LoZ style, three-count) in order to progress to the last leg of the game. Most of the game is pretty forgiving, with enemies *either* being annoying to fight overall and rarely coming in groups, or being trivial, but often coming in groups, sometimes with the more annoying mobs mixed in to teach you target priority and how to use your kit.

The bit that ruins literally the rest of the game up to that point for me is when they decide to suddenly and jarringly pit you against swarths of strong, lithe, and agile enemies, or enemies that two-shot you (with several upgrades to your defense) with frequent, wide-range attacks and no stagger opportunities.

That all could be forgiven if the boss guarding the third key item wasn't literally the worst designed boss in the game. Frequent, wide-sweeping attacks with extremely long active frames that make most of even your most perfectly timed dodges pretty much pointless, and only leaving opening for maybe one attack (which with fifth level attacks do maybe the tiniest bit to his huge healthbar), and he basically two shots you with any little thing he does. The gameplay skill requirement skyrockets out of nowhere, starting from baby steps, to okay, gotta be a little competent, to *be a god or you dont get to experience the story.* ♥♥♥♥ design. ♥♥♥♥ boss. Can't even progress the story because just trying to fight this thing is more infuriating than its worth. If you like souls-like games, there are better to play, and if you like story, dont bother, this game won't let you experience it without taking what patience you have with it.

borberlands

Game was great, and still is if you only come for the base gamemode of 20 minutes, darkness(difficulty) climbing. However, forget it if you want to try your hand at endless mode. It used to be fun and cool, but now half of the upgrades in endless dont stack at all, where as before even if they were broken, they at least stacked -- plus some abilities straight up do not follow their tooltip at all (glare, for example, is supposed to deal damage to all units within vision range, but its actually limited to 3-5 targets it seems, which is a massive nerf, and frost mage definitely doesnt follow a 35% chance to freeze by any measure). It scales way harder than the normal mode, meaning youre better off going with 20 minutes on darkness 15 than endless, because by the time you hit even 12 minutes on endless it's basically the same thing as darkness 15 normal mode.

TLDR: Base game mode? Pretty pog. Endless? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wash, after whatever changes they made. Won't be touching this game again until they fix it, either.

Even after preparing for the game by watching an experienced streamer's dummy's guide to the game and practicing for several hours, nothing close to consistency managed to make its way into any of my gameplay -- that is, other than consistently losing before getting more than 4 wins. It feels like they make no effort to make sure to pit you against players at a similar stage of the game as you in the primary game mode, and the rng subpar at best. Played the game actively, constantly, for the four hours I was in it, and I can count on one hand the amount of times i felt like my matches and rng were fair. I either stomped for the first three rounds or got stomped on, but the results of the next three would always be the same. People with lvl 3 units already somehow, but I've only got a spattering of level 1s and maybe a level 2, despite my best efforts.

I've sidetracked; point is that the game needs a lot of work before i can recommend it to anyone. And due to how bad this first experience was -- I've not felt this level of aggravation even from League in years -- i don't see myself coming back to it for a second try. If you're not competitive whatsoever, go for it, it's cute, I guess. But otherwise, don't waste your time.