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good

fun

ha-deez nuts in your mouth.

play

blasphemous 2

Reasonably difficult and with surprising attention to detail when it comes to mimicking the realistic parts of oversteer and different terrain.

I'm not the biggest group B nerd myself but the cars I've tried so far seem to behave very similar to the descriptions I've heard of their real life counterpart, which is very nice.

.monke pop balon

This game is often described as being a cheeky combination of Hollow Knight and Dead Cells, and on that account I can't really say I disagree, it most certainly does take inspiration from both games, but adds enough of it's own charm that I wouldn't refer to it as derivative.

It's worldbuilding, storylines, music, and most of all atmosphere are all absolutely top notch for the genre and alone justify the price of the game. The only places I believe it falls short is in both movement and combat. While the game doesn't offer too many platforming challenges, the ones that are there are barely short of painful and feel more reliant on luck than actual practice of the game's mechanics (which are unreliable to say the least).

The combat, while not *bad*, can feel a little stale at times with there not being too much variety in enemy types, most of the "abilities" you unlock also don't get used nearly enough to justify the effort required to get them, though that particular problem is one that many in the genre face, including Hollow Knight with it's "nail arts".

Aside from normal enemies though, each of the boss fights felt entirely unique in their own way and provided an exceptional experience, with the last few in the true ending being especially fun to repeat and learn.

A lot of people complain about the backtracking in the game but I honestly didn't find it too much of an issue, especially considering it's souls-like nature. The game does, however, kind of trick you into replaying it more often than you'd like, with some questlines being extremely vague about their (usually very specific) requirements and literal chunks of the game being easily missed if you don't frequently check the wiki.

All in all though it's far from a bad game and if you're in it for the story it'll definitely satisfy.

(Rewriting because the last review just regurgitated what everyone already knows about the game).

Easily the best melee horde-clearer game with an enticing storyline and great community to back it up. Sadly it's held back by a secretive developer that's way too fond of mishandling DLC and letting the game slowly die.

It's cuphead for god's sake.