Bonding Ambivalence
released on Oct 26, 2022
Bonding Ambivalence is a unique coop experience based on a French cyberpunk universe. As a special police unit, you and your partner are brought to investigate a sudden shutdown of a research facility. Between reflection and action, you must survive a situation that is beyond you.
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An excellent co-op experience to share with a pal. In my case i played through this with my brother. We both enjoyed it greatly, and were pretty surprised by the directions it took; very system shock meets Chernobyl.
For a fairly obscure game by a fairly obscure developer, it very much punches above it's weight.
For a fairly obscure game by a fairly obscure developer, it very much punches above it's weight.
This game starts out as an incredibly fun coop shooter puzzle experience, but quickly falls into a unfollowable story riddled with absolutely terrible puzzles which have no meaningful answer to them OR are so glitch-prone that sometimes the puzzle was unsolvable on first load. The game really falls off to it's lowest point midway through and only slightly improves later on until completely falling back on it's face while you have to guide your friend blindly through an annoying ass maze where you have essentially no clue what your friend can see and you have to kinda guess whether or not you're guiding them the right way due to the map not being a 3D depth map, but still shows cave systems/tunnels which can be under or above your friend.
The ending is nothing spectacular and it's 5 minutes of sitting there doing the same tasks (not even puzzles really) going off repeatedly until the timer hits 0 and you're safe. The biggest problem with this sequence is that it's RNG which tasks need doing, and when they need them done, so if 2 tasks need doing at the same time, then while your friend is doing the second one a third goes off, you're entirely screwed and need to reset.
This game has so many fatal flaws that it felt like the game had 0 playtesting and had more emphasis put into the graphics than actual puzzle design.
The ending is nothing spectacular and it's 5 minutes of sitting there doing the same tasks (not even puzzles really) going off repeatedly until the timer hits 0 and you're safe. The biggest problem with this sequence is that it's RNG which tasks need doing, and when they need them done, so if 2 tasks need doing at the same time, then while your friend is doing the second one a third goes off, you're entirely screwed and need to reset.
This game has so many fatal flaws that it felt like the game had 0 playtesting and had more emphasis put into the graphics than actual puzzle design.
the final third of this game has some of the worst designed puzzles in gaming
From a game I had never heard of to one of the best co-op experiences I have played.
This is one of those games that the developers are shooting for the moon and surprisingly they somehow achieved it. Sci-fi horror puzzle co-op game about rogue AI where there is shooting and combat as well. It sounds so much for and indie game, but somehow it still works even though they don't have the budget which shows at times. There is jank everywhere and the visuals can be samey but the core gameplay and the atmosphere are strong enough that it doesn't matter. Well the puzzle side to be more precise. The shooting is adequate but it is used scarcely enough that it works especially in the latter half of the game where it is closer to a horror game.
This is one of those games that the developers are shooting for the moon and surprisingly they somehow achieved it. Sci-fi horror puzzle co-op game about rogue AI where there is shooting and combat as well. It sounds so much for and indie game, but somehow it still works even though they don't have the budget which shows at times. There is jank everywhere and the visuals can be samey but the core gameplay and the atmosphere are strong enough that it doesn't matter. Well the puzzle side to be more precise. The shooting is adequate but it is used scarcely enough that it works especially in the latter half of the game where it is closer to a horror game.
this is the most insane co-op escape room game i've ever played. and you have guns!