Recent reviews by PotatOS

I heart wizard

the wacky earthbound inspired crpg about being a:
- hustler
- fascist
- racist
- ultra liberal
- filthy centrist
- feminist
- disco star
- alcoholic
- crackhead
- amnesiac
- THE LAW
- doomer
- "hobocop"
- "boring cop"
- "sorry cop"
- a sad sad lonely man
- a regular ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ functioning cop detective

Stockholm Syndrome: The Game

Игра ♥♥♥♥♥♥ говно ♥♥♥♥♥, это просто ♥♥♥♥♥♥, в жопу шли все эти ваши циксы и нюхи и глорксы и героины и все это.

Игра говно полное.

One of the best fps ever made, play it, then play it again, then play it one more time just for good measure.

A modern day classic. Still good seven years later.

Pretty fun game thus far.

It's definitely not a game for everyone, I don't know how many people would like to basically roam around dark, musty dungeons with little to no friendly faces while listening to ambient ost with occasional rpg combat, but for me it's something of a dream. Always liked these roaming simulators with a calm but slightly unnerving atmosphere.

this game is the bomba

once you beat it install slop crew, this game is insanely fun online

As of writing this review, this seems to be a poorly balanced game with odd matchmaking, lackluster map design and pretty meh progression.

The matchmaking is very odd, the "Level Based Matchmaking" works not very well with matches that sometimes put me up against players of double or triple my level. Additionally I've had multiple matches where i lost because of being shot through the wall due to, what i assume to be, lag, despite mine and my opponents good internet connection.

The map design is pretty poor with as of writing this, only 4 maps in the entire game. Worse yet, most of them can be summed up to a "2 squares with a bridge connecting them", which, thanks to no inclusion of any timer or any incentive to actually exit your cover on the other side of the map, results in camp-fests with turrets and sniper rifles. But there is at least one map that i moderately enjoyed playing on which was Theater. It's more of a claustrophobic map with no big sightlines like the one on The Roof. Yea it does have the corridors on the sides but atleast they're not that long, and they don't have any cover, making it not a viable strategy to just camp in the corner unless your opponent has piss poor aim.

The progression in this is painfully slow and not very rewarding, packs require you to play roughly 5-8 or so matches and (from my experience) give you 1 or 2 new cards and a couple duplicates. The card levels were either a bad attempt at making a reason for duplicates to exist by creating bad vertical progression, or a very good attempt at making the horizontal progression painfully slow, by making most packs have duplicates instead of cool new cards that you can use instead of the bad default ones. (for those who don't know, vertical progression is when you have a gun and it's damage goes up, horizontal progression is when you have a gun and instead of it getting more damage, you get a new, completely different one).

And then there's the balancing. I admit, i have not played for that long so i haven't seen all of the cards, however i have seen quite a few, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is not good. Let's make a simple comparison to understand the balance.

Ice Block
A very balanced card that allows you to tank a huge amount of damage no problem with the downside being that you are frozen in place, unable to move or shoot. It's a well balanced card that can help you, for example, tank a bomb or 2 but possibly allowing the opponent to use that chance to get up close to you, it's a good risk vs reward card.

tin man
become invincible with basically no downside lol :)))))))

The only downside tin man has is that you get a bit slower, but it's not nearly enough of a downside for a card that can make you invincible. Another example of those kinds of balancing choices is the Exposed Brain card, which creates a new hitbox above the target's head that, when shot, deals 3x damage. What the ♥♥♥♥.

The only good part of the game that i enjoyed was the artstyle and aesthetic, they're pretty cool and well done.

Other than that, this is, again, as of writing, a pretty content-wise dry game with quite a few problems. I do hope that in the future the developers don't just abandon the game and actually try to work on it and improve it for the better and eventually make it a fun experience for a long while, but right now it's just not that at all.

why the hell is this moderately good