Recent reviews by HRLou

The pinnacle of video games.

Much better than ♥♥♥♥-Life, a whole lot more fun. Play on POSTAL difficulty. It is brutal, but it forces you to adapt and learn your tools.
Each weapon is a tool opening many strategies to approach the problems the game presents you. On the lower difficulties, however, especially those in which the townsfolk aren't immediately armed and hostile, the game does not grip you and strangle your life-essence; it is truly an inferior experience. POSTAL difficulty feels like the intended experience; you do not experience the subtleties of the level design without it. The game suddenly becomes about route finding and resource management. Frantically running through houses looking for health pipes, food, or medkits, and armour; anything to provide more protection, while travelling through a town where everyone has high-calibre weaponry, and wants you dead. The payoff is cathartic. For something that could be perceived as a joke, or just a sandbox to kill people in sadistic ways with a tacked-on 'dumb' storyline. It has very thoughtful level design, and each task throughout your week presents new problems. Instead of having a nonsense storyline, forgettable, boring, and repetitive. You are delighted by a series of ridiculous, counter-cultural, and highly satirical events. Which are sure to elicit many emotions from anyone who isn't a prude or dullard. As with most games Slavs seem to like, the game is very good.