Oh I didn’t realize it was the Odallus folks.
I played it on Game Pass then got it free on Prime. I found it pretty good as Contra-Likes go.
i don’t hate shovel knight, but saying it’s better than cotm2 seems like crazy talk
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I was very unimpressed. Like it was Fine but not really noteworthy
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Adios is kind of interesting if you’ve ever looked at “Doc Burford”'s twitter or medium writing and thought “this guy has, perhaps, an overconfident view of himself & his ability to think about games” & then wanted to see that played out in the form of a game.
Otherwise it’s pretty clueless, endless heavy-handed exposition filled monologues punctuated by “mini games” that are pretty much all just occasionally clicking when told. The visuals & sound design are totally inconsistent, some models (a car for example) seem fairly detailed in texture, others (a horse you interact with twice) seem incredibly soft & intentionally blurred. Most off-putting, for a game designed around conversation with another person, ur conversational’s partner model looks poor, has weird lip-flap, and cycles between standing stock still & straightening his tie endlessly. Yet the game often encourages (& gives you no other options than) staring directly at him.
Weird weird & it’s so clearly, painfully, “written” & you are given nothing to do but stand and listen to this writing that it immediately forces a certain sort of detachment from any sort of experience besides a critical one. In that way, if u find enjoyment out of that, it is kind of fun to see something that seems 2 represent a certain sort of personal expression or at least u can project that on it. . Also it’s very short, which is nice, but it still feels a bit stretched…somehow…
Personally I would not pay more than like $1 for it & or maybe just watch a bit of a playthru, but…maybe if u have a “chill” relationship with money u will feel otherwise.
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Glad to have confirmed for me that Adios is exactly the kind of hubristic arrogance I expected Doc to proudly make. Few creative people I’ve met online bother me as much as him.
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agree huntdown is much better than blazing chrome, huntdown and cotm(1 and 2) are probably my favourite recent retro revivals
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It’s somewhat impressive to me just how much success he’s been able to carve out for himself despite not having any sort of programming/art skills at all/seemingly no interest in pursuing any. He’s managed to claim most of the success of Paratopic despite Jessica Harvey doing all the visuals/programming/etc. & Lazzie Brown having done all the music/sound design.
And I mean collaborative effort sure sure, but now he’s running a game company as someone with only a single writing credit( & who has written about hating text as a medium)? Credit where it’s due - seems like a dreamy existence.
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all the weird drama around the people who made Paratopic just profoundly bums me out. i don’t know a lot beyond snippets but multiple parties involved have said and done things since that just made me very annoyed and disappointed and made me trust less people in general. i don’t wanna go into it more than that but… it’s like whenever i feel like i see something kinda weird and cool get actually some minor success it immediately seems to go to people’s heads and they leverage that in all kinds of shitty/stupid ways. sucks.
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I feel exactly the same. I don’t know anything about the distribution of labor on Paratopic, but I have assigned no credit to that guy in my head canon.
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less than half through and my head has already exploded 7 whole times
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one of the few roguelikes i genuinely enjoy bc it layers a dozen different mechanics and then gives you classes which circumvent those rules in various ways. real treat of a game. i think the store page describes it as an “immersive sim” and i generally agree
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yeah, I think it’s underrated because it looks like a cross between rpg maker and a free mmo from the 2000s – really a big, fun game.
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a little looser than games i normally play (although i’m bending on this more as a i get older). i liked it a lot too – it’s fun w/ friends as well! definitely feels more like a sim but it’s very playful at the same time.
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I raised a bunch of zombies using the necronomicon and they went on a rampage and killed all the fire fighters ten outta ten
Honestly your review on steam convinced me to buy this. If I’m half interested in a game and I see you liked it, I’m likely to buy it, mostly based on heat signature (and now this)
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Really glad the rest of sb has caught up with my hot take that paratopic was garbage and doc burford is the dumbest guy-trying-to-sound-smart
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I liked paratopic but in a “Marge holding a potato” kinda way. That guy sounds like a dipshit tho
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Marge holding a potato but it’s a text box saying “games that have hard cuts between scenes”
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30 flights of loving was good, too bad paratopic never managed even a fraction of the charm of that.
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If you know any other games that do this, please let me know so I can continue to move Paratopic down the list
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