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I'm a huge Bloober Team fan after Observer, but Layers of Fear gives me the exact same feeling of walking through one of those elaborate haunted houses you can find that cost like $30, getting tired of all the line-waiting before you even step foot in the house, and then rushing through the house itself once you're finally in it. Exhausting. Everyone is shrieking at me! What the hell is that supposed to be? That guy looks hilarious? I'm tired. Let me go home so I can go to sleep.
Way too many games from the 2010s that are apparently just info dumps of half-assed references to old mass media. Retro City Rampage in particular is sub-Family Guy shit.
Imagine if you took all of the worst traits of Suda 51 titles and threw them in a trash can labeled Killer is Dead.
Goat Simulator is totally fine in a singular sense, but its effect on video game comedy is putrid. A game built for screech-y Youtubers to have an on-screen conniption about.
Peggle is an frustrating game if you try to play it well, and Peggle 2 is an infuriating game if you play it at all, what with its cast of dope-y weirdos shaking their asses at you the whole time you play. Ass-ugly game, IMO.
One of the last true sloppy movie tie-ins playacting as a full-fledged $60 title. I wouldn't call it offensively bad, per se, just extremely cookie cutter to the extent that its somehow worse than the sum of its parts. Boring stuff.
Another game on here because it was so disappointing. This was a really tired slog of a game. I mean, even on the simplest level, it gets stuff wrong. Remember all those loud, pop-y radio stations from past Saints Row games? And all the in-game music that sped things along mid-mission? Imagine just removing all that music outright from, say, Saints Row 2. Just a sparsely populated cityscape in total silence. And then imagine the dev team ran out of jokes. Bad vibes!
Can't think of a remaster that more flamboyantly missed the mark than this shoddy remake of THPS 1 and 2. They copied the level design near-exactly from the original titles, but fundamentally changed the physics and speed of the gameplay. And then just released the game as-is! Playing this game is an exercise in recalibrating your entire brain just to jump from one place to the next.
Detroit: Become Human is one of the most embarrassing success stories in video games. The fact that this game was evidently such a blockbuster (and that it was even earnestly praised in many critical spaces!) tells you all you need to know about where the video game industry is at, especially in AAA spaces.
This was a crappy puzzle game with some fairly bad illustrations and cutscenes to go along with it that EA charged like $15 for or something. Not especially remarkable.