Recent reviews by Violet (In the house)

This game is amazing to play, and has a great art style that I absolutely adore.

Too bad I suck nuts at this game.

Back when I thought lying on the internet was illegal, I was introduced to Newgrounds.
All I saw in it was just a weird site full of weird people. The kind of people you don't want to see at a birthday party, even if it wasn't yours.
Then maybe like a year or two later, I saw a small animated series called Madness Combat, which to my small brain, was completely realistic. I thought that Hank was going to find me at a grocery store, but I was a dumb child.
Then, maybe another year later, I discovered a small game based on the Madness Combat series, called Project Nexus.
I thought it was so cool, that I made a Newgrounds account just to play it.

Fast forward to when I heard that a sequel to Project Nexus was being made. I was so happy, but sad that I couldn't contribute money because my parents didn't allow it.

Guess what I'm saying is that I've have literally been waiting my entire life for this game.

If you told younger me that Madness was going to be as big as it is now, I would've told you to get out of my house.

Hey, you. You like the Sims?
Have you ever wanted to carry a bunch of Sims around as they preached your name?
Have you ever thought of religion as a title?
Have you ever brought a friend group together to watch a movie, and by the end of it, you all have horrific PTSD from all the trauma that has occured in the past 3 hours?
Then look no further than this cute little game!
We have everything you (might) want in The Cult of the Lamb!
You want to care for little animals that look straight out of a kids book? Sure!
You want to dance with your friends so that they'll give you more money? Of course!
You want to attack and dethrone god himself? And when he begs you to end his life, you make him fall in love with you, marry him, make him your bottom, and at the end of the day, you both enjoy a nice steak dinner? Absolutely!

Come, join the Lamb Mafia.

Enjoy your stay.

To keep it short, only get the game when it's on sale, and not just 25% off too. TLDR below.
In long terms, I'll break it into a few sections that I feel need the most attention, starting with a disclaimer and a spoiler warning.
I only beat the game once, and got a few minutes in NG+ before doing this. I played on Normal because I did the same in the previous game.
Another disclaimer, I don't have a million dollar PC. I can run DOOM '16 on a solid 45-50 FPS on an average day. I say this because the game set my graphics to Low, one above Very Low; Even then, the graphics were good for my hardware... when they worked...
The sound design is something I never really cared for in games, but if it's good, it leaves a nice impression on me, like how a good sounding shotgun is more notable than one that sounds like wet napkins.
The weapons did not do this for me.
The slashing weapons sounded like low budget meat slicing, and the blunt weapons sounded like I was playing around with a cardboard tube. These are not tied to specific weapons, but all of them.
On top of this, nearly every weapon I grabbed was nothing compared to the shops, and this goes double for rewards. I don't know why finishing a new level 4 quest gives me a level 3 item when the lowest value I have is 6.
Let's get this out of the way, The Decoys and Meat Jars are useless. Remember in the first game where throwing a Decoy actually distracted the infected and was a viable even in the endgame? To be fair, I didn't upgrade it for reasons I'll get to later, but if I have to upgrade the Decoys just for it to do its job, then I won't even bother in the first place. This goes for the Jar as well. "Distracts Virals and Biters" you say? The times I did actually try to make use of these items, the Virals and Biters just looked at me like I just fed them dry kibble as they ate my angry corpse. If the Jar didn't work because the Virals were already after me, then either change how it works, or change its description.
Boosters are also useless. At no point are the elemental resistances ever useful; Maybe the speedrunners are going to find a use for them. Same can be said for the rage boosters.
The only good boosters I found useful were the Immunity and Health Regen, and the latter was quickly out shined. At the beginning of the game, I clutched max level Immunity Boosters like they were for emergencies only. By the time I quit, I had 37 of the bastards. Don't skimp out on them, you'll gain 2x the amount you had before by the end of the day.
Now I said that Health Boosters were good, but they are a bandaid compared to the Military Medkit. Of course, the Mil' Medkit is supposed to be rare, but I had 15 of the gals, and 3x that by the end game. In terms of greatness and usability, go for Military Medkits.
When it comes to what you can throw, only go for two options.
The Throwing Knife is only useful for popping Bombers and preforming takedowns.
The only other throwing option is the lovely, trustworthy, and cheep to craft Molotov. My experience is only with the Level 2 Molly, and I found it more useful than most weapons and other options. The land mine can only watch and the grenade can only whimper, while the C4 bows in comparison to the might of Molly. At only level 2, Molly will kill most enemies, melt the steely of beams, and I'm pretty sure at max level, she also preps you a nice steak dinner while stroking your hair like a horse with a sugar cube.

The only one you should care about is the Paraglider, that's it.
For starters, it controls like balls. So, for the first time in my life, I recommend Inverted Controls for the Paraglider. Then get the upgrade that lets you go slightly higher, then work towards the next upgrade that lets you boost via magic. Congrats, you just beat the game; Parkour is just an excuse to get to a vent so you can skip the entire game.

It was simple at first, a stutter here and there. Sometimes the audio would blip out every so often, but that's with any big game for me. Then the glitches popped out. They were nothing special; Aiden would get stuck on nothing, and sometimes the camera would freeze and I could only strafe to get unstuck, but that only happened on ziplines and the occasional dropkick.
But something happened. Something the game warned me about from the very start of the second map. The stuttering got worse, and Aiden hated ziplines so much that he would have 'Nam flashbacks at the end of each ride, causing me to open and close the inventory just to get him moving again.
But nothing could prepare me for what would happen next.
In the mission where you have to return to Juan and tell him about what happened, Aiden would say Mission Accomplished, and the dialogue would go off from there.
The game warned me about what was to come, as Aiden said "Mission Accomplished" in a congratulatory tone, the game kicked me to desktop for the very first time. It was only my first crash, so I thought nothing of it. I crashed a few times in the previous game, so this was nothing new.
Oh how naive I was.
If the game didn't like my progress, it would crash. If too many decals were taking up space, it would crash. If the game felt like it, it would crash. To this day, I have no idea if there even is a correlation to any of these crashes.
It got worse.
My PC isn't "turning Minecraft into Silent Hill" bad, but render distance has never really been a problem in games where the distance is just a JPG until you get close enough. And that was the case so far.
This game is built different, in the worst way.
I'm strolling around the big city, walking on a bridge when suddenly I'm hit with a loading screen. It's not like other loading screens, no. This is the kind of loading screen that reminds you to check your internet connection even though you're on singleplayer. So I wait a solid 45 seconds, then I can move again, only to be hit with another loading screen. I'm a patient guy, but when I'm hit with 2 loading screens back to back, I got questions.
And then... the magic happens.
Reality itself dissolves before my eyes, the world is fading as Infected fall, Renegades A-pose to save their lives, and cars start disappearing like a slideshow presentation. Not watching my step, I clip through the floor and starts paragliding, in hopes to survive the never ending void. Only to touch the killbox of the world and end up far away from where I initially was. Realizing that I have to go through that again, I go and try to Paraglide my way through. Just as I think the coast is clear after passing 3 loading screens, I go and land onto a building.
You know those dreams where you're walking around and suddenly you're falling because the floor disapears? To say I was pissed is an understatement, that happened more often than you think
The final crash was also when I just quit the game. After getting into NG+ and running into the "Slowpoke" mission, I talk to the guy, only for his very breath to crash the game. I was completely done with the game.

Do I recommend this game? No. Only if it's on sale, and even then, Dying Light 1 is much better, even if it offers less.
The weapons feel soggy and soft, even if the health bars say otherwise.
The only good weapon is Molly, but even she has her off days.
Healing is a joke.
Upgrades are WAY TOO GRINDY. You'd have to grind so much that it would make Runescape seem like church service.
And the bugs are so bad, it makes me question how something like it even gets past Techland's 50+ QA Team.
Story? It was okay, but the options for progressing felt like Mass Effect:
Black and White options that, in the end, didn't really matter in the first place. And I didn't even talk about the dog side quest (Seriously though, what the f**k Techland?) :|

Gameplay: 4.5/10
Story: 6/10
Grind: 3/10
Quality Assurance: 3/10
Total: 6.5/10

Original Game? Not bad for flash.
WotL DLC? Nice for a DLC, grew my tolerance to rouge games.
Rebirth? Twice the fun as flash, fun to play, and gave me an open view to more rouge games like it.
Afterbirth? An expansion to an already great game, more ways to play, more ways to die.
Afterbirth +? Should've been part of the first DLC, but I still bought it anyways. Not much to be said.
Repentance? Not only an expansion to the game, but it feels like a whole new one.
Now, no matter the pain, You'll have a large amount of fun with all these new ways to play.
This isn't to forgive to Edmund for most of the nerfs and decisions made in Repentance. I swear, with every 5 good things I find for this game, there's 1 really bad one that just stabs my soul. Jokes on you, Edmund, my soul is non-refundable.

Also, buy Four Souls, all of it's expansions, and spread more Issac propaganda. Spend. Consume. Greed. Screw you Edmund, thank you for making this game <3.

Been playing this since very-early access, Its changed a lot over the year and I have enjoyed it ever since. Still remember the patches that made some of the player base angry. I don't really care if the dev team is going to add DLC in the future, this game is rich enough so that any DLC you don't have isn't really going to affect you, and your time playing is still going to be fun, its just going to be missing a very small % of loot.
If you like becoming a god and destroying everything you see, only to start again because some physics-defying interdimensional void crab died next to you and took you to universal gae baby court for judgement of the highest power, then this game is absolutely for you.
9/10
Needs more fungus.

Played for awhile, the gameplay is really outstanding with what the devs give it and with a always live community comes alot more updates to be seen. Ive played with some great dwarfs in this game and it was awesome, somedays however it felt like i was mining with what felt like elfs in disguise. but even with those bad times i could just play with everyones likable flying drone: "BOSCO", love the little guy but it feels like he has more brains than some "Leaf lovers" that i play with. But anyway, Buy this game, play forever and as always with DRG; ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE!

There ain't nothing like looking up at the sky, taking in the nice view of the sky along with burning buildings, hearing some zombie come up behind you, and you just super dropkick it in face as you stare at it fly away.
For real tho, to me, it's a 9/10. Can't wait for Dying Light 2



But really, play this with super kicking and you will get hours of entertainment.

This game really makes you feel dead, but in a good way. (btw kicking enemys in this game feels so good)

God this brings me back. I hope not to bore anyone.
Devs, or anyone under the Spiral Knights name...
Please, another game or a continuation of this one.

Back when I was a little kid, this game influenced my taste in gaming. But as I look back at this game, I feel kinda sad. There was huge potential, and everyone saw that, but there was something missing that I couldn't put my finger on.
The market was filled with players, both new and veteran. The arenas were an experience that I feel no other game can replicate. I created multiple characters due to how great the character creator was, and how cute the Knights were to me, as they even influenced my art style to this day (when I actually touch paper that is).

Then one day... The game changed; Not in any physical or technical way, but something happened that just made it lose it's charm. Which is a shame because I loved this game... Emphasis on loved.

I do hope that the Devs see this, or at least, someone that can find a way to return this game back to it's original form.
I love this game, but I want it back the way I remember playing it. Not some kind of Market and Stocks simulator with gameplay reminiscent of something actually fun.
Please...
I want to love this game again...