too hard





you know?

forgot abt this until i recently looked through my steam library sorting through the oldest stuff
i got gifted this in 2016 and never beat it and then the gears tumbled in my head and then i was like "Oh! That game!!! Right."

a friend gifted this to me along with super lumberjack on my birthday when i turned sixteen
it sucks! this also pisses me off because if memory serves right
this was the first metroidvania i ever touched ohhhhhhh
nooooooooooooo noooooooooo i dont like thatttt FUCK!
fuck you colin
MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haydee can be surprisingly tense at times, the developers have embraced modding and there are always enormous amounts of ASS in your face the whole way through, those were the only good things I had to say about it. This game is built on trial and error of the worst kind (yellow zone is the worst offender), exploration is incredibly difficult because most rooms look alike, I lost count of how many times quick enemies were hiding behind corners or fell from a trap on the ceilling, and you have a permanent and severe blindspot because the camera is way too close and there are no settings for changing the FOV so your character is permanently blocking half the screen. Also if you think this is the kind of game where you can screw yourself without even realizing it until hours later, then you are absolutely right.
I think there's a good game hidden within Haydee, but there needs to be something akin to Lara's Mansion in it so players can learn the controls without having to open the settings menu, an option to make the player's character transparent while aiming or perhaps going into a first person mode (which would be useful for scouting ahead as well), and more puzzles instead of just trial and error. Going back to the yellow zone, if you are playing blind you'd have to go into a room, write down the numbers near the locked cages, eventually die to a robot because you are unarmed, load a save, press a different button on floor 5 and repeat until the way is clear and you realize you needed to go somewhere else first so you just wasted hours of your precious mortal life in a pointless experiment.