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By reading this review, you have angered the gods

Bosses in this game can heal.

tl;dr- This game has some major problems and is ABSURDLY difficult towards the end, but it's pretty good nonetheless. A flawed masterpiece.

I got this game during the giveaway where all owners of SUPERHOT were given a copy of MCD, which is why my review is labelled as such.

Superhot MCD is a game that gives you MORE. Did you ever wish Superhot had a sequel? A game that's just more of the same, building on the old mechanics? Well, here's MCD. It's a good bit harder, of course. The roguelike elements are welcome at first, life-saving towards the middle, and then frustratingly absent at the end of the game when you would need them most.

In any case, this game is pretty good. There's only a few maps, but between all the enemy variants, the new guns, the different hacks you can apply to your character for special abilities, and hell, even the different spawn points on each map, there's lots of fun to be had.

Now, that being said, this game is BRUTAL compared to the original Superhot. You get somewhere from one to two hits you can take before death in this game (without upgrades anyways), but unlike in the original, you are sent back to the beginning of a 'node' when you die, losing all your progress. This wouldn't be an issue if the nodes didn't get increasingly long. Of course, on occasion you can forgo an upgrade for some healing, so this isn't a HUGE issue until the later parts of the game, which restrict what upgrades you can get for plot reasons mostly.

In any case, this game is VERY hard. Completely brutal. Sometimes unfair. A good portion of the levels suck, and getting them in a run on any node essentially dooms you to failure. But, the parts that are good are REALLY good. The Corpo level in particular I think is the epitome of this- there's cover, there's weapons, there's items you can throw. It's so much more polished than any level from the original Superhot that it's unbelievable. Then there's levels like Site which have no cover, maybe two weapons in the whole map, and force you to REALLY abuse time-slow. Kind of a mixed bag, and what levels you get on a given node is random.

This problem is epitomized by one of the nodes (levels) in the late-game (actual spoilers ommitted) which requires you to do 15 levels with no hacks, with no healing, and if you die at any point you go back to the start. Did I mention how unfair this game can be when you don't get upgrades? How some levels will just kill you the instant you spawn in if you don't play perfectly? Normally I'd consider that a HUGE downside and drop a negative review, but this is the only place in the whole game where that actually makes a difference, since normally you'd have some powers to offset the difficulty.

That being said, the difficulty makes victory all the more rewarding. The new plot stuff is stellar, the feel of the game is AMAZING, and like it or not, the fearful sensation of being hunted down by the three MINDs is not something I've felt in many games before. That being said, it would be a lot more fun if they stuck with the established gameplay loop for longer and didn't remove the interesting new bits at the end.

In any case, if you liked Superhot, you'll like MCD... mostly. Just make sure not to try and clear it in a day. Playing for any more than 2 hours in one sitting will drive you mad once you get past the early-game. Basically, you'll have fun until you won't, and when that point comes, you're gonna want to take breaks or you might start to hate this game.

Also, apparently the credits are 2.5 hours long and unskippable. I respect the creative process behind making that choice, but come on, really?

Extremely fun! One of the first roguelite first-person shooters I've seen, and a damn good one at that. Do note that its ending is extremely unsatisfying (if fitting for the plot), and the persistent upgrades (one of the game's selling points, presumably) do not carry over to a new game.

My brain is too small for this game

They call it One Step From Eden because I get to the final boss every time and then get completely obliterated

Imagine Megaman. Now, imagine that it was designed by someone sane, where a single slip-up won't kill you- but they'll still wear you down. Healing exists, upgrades are more interesting, and quite frankly, the boss fights are just more interesting than another Man jumping around the stage while shooting some kind of themed projectile. (That being said, this also results in boss weaknesses being less obvious). The music is ALSO on par with Mega Man tunes. Really, 20XX beats any Mega Man game in terms of quality, right down to the graphics.

Overall a very good game, and a very good roguelite.

thanks gearbox