Imagine if your friends played the game you like: part 2.

I'm incapable of getting good at this game.

It's not a genre I like, but it's really impressive how much physics and interactions you can have with the environment.

As always, stay hydrated.

This is the best roguelike In have ever played and I enjoy it every single time I pick it up; that being said I utterly despise this game and hate every second of it.

I have had runs where I feel more powerful than any game has ever made me feel, only to die to the single dumbest thing I have ever experienced. This game will straight up just kill you in like 80% of your runs, and it will feel terrible and you will be furious. Then you'll boot the game back up five minutes later because this game will put a strangle-hold on you like nothing else.

It's completely uncanny how something this dense and obtuse and infuriating can be so addictive and fun(?). It very much feels like a game that was not designed with the idea of being played in mind, and everything in it will act accordingly. It's a very impersonal kind of difficulty; Noita does not care if you beat it, shelve it, or rinse it for every secret it has. None of that has anything to do with how much you are rewarded or punished, it will simply act how it is irrespective of any sort of sense of progression or design, and that is fascinating.

It's one of those rare games that feels like it never stops getting bigger and deeper the more you play it, and the sense of discovery just never really slows down. The main path of this game seems to be a fraction of it's full world, but exploring that outer world is so difficult to pull off that any new thing you find there feels like a major discovery. It's the kind of design that inspires communities of secret hunters and lore gatherers to try to make sense of it all.

It almost feels like I haven't played enough of it to review it despite "beating" the game in a sense, but I get the feeling that I will always feel like that to some degree. I don't think I'll ever truly complete Noita, and that's really something special.

Abra o jogo.
Morra.
Reinicie.
Morra.
O que acontece se eu juntar esses 2 feitiços?
Morra.
15 horas estudando feitiços.
Morra.
Nossa, criei uma wand OP! Lesgoooo
*Morra.

Lo pongo como "Finished" pero realmente le voy a seguir dando durante un tiempo ocasionalmente si me apetece... Pero tampoco demasiado. Tengo otros juegos que jugar. Igualmente, tengo sentimientos encontrados.

Noita es un juego que puede ser definido como "obtuso". Te da cero información de sus mecánicas, de su mundo o de todo lo que puede ofrecer. Te suelta en un espacio 100% simulado a arder en una prueba de fuego contra el RNGod para conseguir una varita o una combinación lo suficientemente fuerte para sobrevivir una run.

Lo más lejos que he llegado es el séptimo nivel gracias a una varita de hacer que el enemigo explote continuamente como si tuviese veneno explosivo corriéndole por las venas. ¡Y está gracioso cuando funciona! Poder crear una varita OP está muy chulo y te sientes muy bien cuando realmente elimina bestias en un par de segundos. Ahora bien, esto es una run de 100. Las demás, he tenido que morir mientras buscaba una varita que hiciese algo mejor que "Pium, pium".

Su aspecto "alquímico" y reactivo también me parece demasiado obtuso. "¡Puedes juntar materiales para distintas pociones! ¡Y si hay madera, ésta arde! ¡Y el metal conduce la electricidad!". No me parecen malas ideas pero más que permitir la interactividad y la experimentación, este aspecto suele traducirse en: "Todo hace que las cosas ardan. Todo suelta ácido. Estoy en llamas. Necesito agua."

También he de decir que por lo que he visto, Noita es un juego EXTENSO. Donde si te atreves, puedes ponerte a hacer tremendas virguerías y explorar un mundo gigantesco. Te puedes volver un absoluto Dios. Pero... no tengo la paciencia por ahora para darle suficiente para esta "God Run".

Me quejo mucho pero al final Noita tiene un encanto que va adquiriendo poco a poco. No es un roguelike accesible. Más bien es una pesadilla para nuevos jugadores. Pero entiendo que tiene una profundidad increíble y lo poco que me ha asomado a ella ha conseguido divertirme ligeramente. Estoy seguro de si le echo mucho más tiempo, puede que mi opinión cambie a mejor cuando consiga exprimirle todo lo posible.

Groundbreaking, sophisticated gameplay with an unparalleled emphasis on secrets and exploration. Deeply unforgiving without learning the mechanics from an online guide; even then, some runs just won't take off. Motivation to 100% declines sharply once the Greek letter spells are obtained, as enemies pose dramatically little challenge, making the endgame feel like busywork. Some areas feel like placeholders, and they might very well be. Noita is a flawed masterpiece with depth (and, unexpectedly, breadth) like few others.

Kicked a barrel, exploded, 10/10

In seriousness, it's a game with just... a lot. I feel like the more I play I become both more confused and yet learn more, a lot of this game is encouraging breaking it and I really enjoy that element of it a lot. The focus on just breaking each element apart one by one, making stupid as hell wand builds, and then getting killed by something you didn't understand is such a stupidly frustrating and fun game loop.

I would give it higher if I had half the brain to figure out half of what is going on, and didn't rage quite and uninstall every hour I played. Really stupid, ridiculously fun, and a game that makes no sense, in the best ways. Big props to the community too, they are saints.