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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 29.8 hrs on record (0.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 26 Mar, 2021 @ 10:34pm

Humanity is responsible for some of the worst atrocities imaginable. Genocide, war, slavery, those complete degenerates who shove gum on the underside of tables. But there are some things humans have accomplished that just completely balance out the bad things that they do. We have constructed flying machines, built gigantic skyscrapers, we've been to the hecking moon. But the magnum opus, the peak of human accomplishments lies in My Singing Monsters. My Singing Monsters is nothing less than a genuine masterclass of video games, and it is a crime that this game costs only ten dollars. Nintendo charges 60 dollars for New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe, which is a port of a Wii U game which was already made from copy pasted elements from previous 2D Mario games in the first place, and this mind-blowing gem sells for 1/6th the price. My Singing Monsters has so much variety, so high a skill ceiling, so seamless a difficulty transition that it is nearly impossible to get bored of it. At the beginning of the game, you're fighting a big slime wearing a crown using this pathetic bow you made from some rocks you found underground. At the end of the game, however, you are fighting a god of singing firing epic musical notes, while you are zooming around on a UFO shooting him in the forehead with a machine gun crafted from the fragments of a destroyed otherworldly pillar where you were shot at by mutant bugs that can cause your gravity to go out of wack when they get a hit in. The fact that the transition from the big slime to fighting actual gods is so seamless is nothing short of incredible, and the difficulty progression follows suit in its incredible execution. The game starts off so mindlessly easy, a toddler would scoff at it and play through effortlessly while blindfolded and missing multiple limbs. Then your first boss comes in and it's a little harder, you die a few times, but nothing that bad, But then as time goes on, the bosses increase in difficulty over time, to the point where you are dodging the gigantic musical notes from the god of singing mentioned earlier. But because the difficulty increase is so subtle, it never feels overwhelming. Although there are some difficulty dips from time to time, Furcorn being a prime example of this, there are very few difficulty jumps. The three difficulty modes are also very well integrated as well. It's almost like each mode is a continuation of the last, the beginning of expert is about as hard as the end of normal, and the beginning of master is about as hard as the end of expert. And I haven't even mentioned how much stuff this game has. Thousands of items, hundreds of weapons, hundreds of enemies, events, bosses, dungeons, you fight the god of torches at one point. I've been playing this game for quite a while, I lost count, I think I have like 3 hours on it or something, and this game is still hitting me with things I didn't know previously existed. And the worlds of My Singing Monsters are huge, with many nooks and crannies to shove your dirty little fingers into, so you'll likely get a ton of playtime out of each individual world. And once you are done with one world, you make a new one, but with the added knowledge of the previous world under your belt. Maybe you learn how to better your constructions, maybe you learn how to exploit an enemy's AI in your favor. Learning ho+w My Singing Monsters works and all the mechanics at play is so satisfying and so fun to employ, that it has kept me entertained for years, and is likely to keep me entertained for many years more. If you haven't gotten this game yet, please do. You're missing out on one of the greatest games ever created.

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