Hey Hey people, Sshien here.
Have you, watched Sseth’s video about this game? If you haven’t, go watch it, and then, come back. SYNTHETIK: LEGION RISING is a rougelite that I actually, really like. I’ve played a small number of roguelites and roguelikes this year, including Shotgun King, Necrodancer, Slay the Spire, and Real Life. And I haven’t really enjoyed any of them nearly as much as when I hop into a voice call every week for the last 7 months with my best mate, a modern day Diogenes and CEO of the Olive Oil OPEC Cartel from the great land of Brazil Lite, Rodas. We bought this game last Christmas to play together, and by jingo, we jingo’d our asses right into a deeper bromance by experiencing all of this game’s highs and lows carbon fibre shoulder-plate to hypersteel shoulder plate. And that’s fucking awesome. As Sseth put it, SYNTHETIK is a symphony of firearms, machinery, and adrenaline mixed with fast acting opioids, which your character shoots approximately once every 10 seconds. This game is TIGHT, fast paced, frantic, and demanding of you to be bringing your SSS game for the entire 1 hour run. You need to understand your class, its role, and the items and builds you will likely synergize with through pure trial, error, and intuition. And when you get strategy just right, pick up the luck bonus modules, and get good item drops, you go from “it’s gonna be joever soon” to “WE’RE SO FUCKING CRACKED BRO” (those were actual quotes from the run we beat the game with).
When you get on a roll towards the end of a run, you feel like the God of the facility, exacting holy revenge on the murderbots out to tear you heart from wire and brain from CPU. Which is all well and good because, STORY. You are here to stop an infinite paperclip scenario playing out, orchestrated by a rogue AI who is self-stylizing as a God of War. And that’s all the story you get and need with a game like this. Its mechanics and euphoric gameplay do ALL the heavy lifting, so you just sit back, and let your natural biological aversion for all things artificial and intelligent from taking your job as a cracked crackhead supersoldier. GRAPHICS AND SOUND compliment this game extremely well. The devs made excellent use of their game’s limitations to decorate their slaughterfest with beautifully simplistic art that doesn’t look realistic, but not cartoony either. I think SYNTHETIK will go down as a game that “still looks good after decades”. The sound design is incredible. It compliments your adrenaline rush with dopamine releasing audio cues and highly satisfying sound effects, from gunfire, to reloading, jamming, and the sweet sound of a new upgrade making you FEEL like you just got something powerful. All set to a banger soundtrack that goes from low bassy stealth tunes to full blown phonk bangers that get the adrenaline pumping and get you in the zone to FUCK. SHIT. UP.
After 13.5 hours, I made it to the final boss for the first time, and the adrenaline hit I took while attempting it for the first time was the biggest I’ve had in YEARS. That was when I knew this game was something else. Over the course of the next 11 hours of gameplay, Rodas and I experienced many runs that could have gone to the end, only to die on floor 4 or the final boss gauntlet. Sometimes to our own stupidity, sometimes to janky bullshit as a result of the robot god sabotaging the undersea cables linking Europe with Australia, and spiking his ms to 300 ping. Every time we worked together, fucked up, laughed, we strategized, learned, and parted for the next run in a few days. When we finally beat the final boss after 24.5 hours of playtime on my end, the sound we made the moment we beat the game can only be described as pure, masculine bro-hype. The kind you hear when an squad of sweats win their first CS:GO regional tournament. It was glorious, a truly well fought dopamine rush of such beauty that all men should seek to earn. AND THEN SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED. But you’re going to have to see that for yourself. So go ahead, buy SYNTHETIK. It is WELL worth the price. Earn your victory on top of a pile of burning wreckage and silicon guts at the top of ARMAGEDDON.
Have you, watched Sseth’s video about this game? If you haven’t, go watch it, and then, come back. SYNTHETIK: LEGION RISING is a rougelite that I actually, really like. I’ve played a small number of roguelites and roguelikes this year, including Shotgun King, Necrodancer, Slay the Spire, and Real Life. And I haven’t really enjoyed any of them nearly as much as when I hop into a voice call every week for the last 7 months with my best mate, a modern day Diogenes and CEO of the Olive Oil OPEC Cartel from the great land of Brazil Lite, Rodas. We bought this game last Christmas to play together, and by jingo, we jingo’d our asses right into a deeper bromance by experiencing all of this game’s highs and lows carbon fibre shoulder-plate to hypersteel shoulder plate. And that’s fucking awesome. As Sseth put it, SYNTHETIK is a symphony of firearms, machinery, and adrenaline mixed with fast acting opioids, which your character shoots approximately once every 10 seconds. This game is TIGHT, fast paced, frantic, and demanding of you to be bringing your SSS game for the entire 1 hour run. You need to understand your class, its role, and the items and builds you will likely synergize with through pure trial, error, and intuition. And when you get strategy just right, pick up the luck bonus modules, and get good item drops, you go from “it’s gonna be joever soon” to “WE’RE SO FUCKING CRACKED BRO” (those were actual quotes from the run we beat the game with).
When you get on a roll towards the end of a run, you feel like the God of the facility, exacting holy revenge on the murderbots out to tear you heart from wire and brain from CPU. Which is all well and good because, STORY. You are here to stop an infinite paperclip scenario playing out, orchestrated by a rogue AI who is self-stylizing as a God of War. And that’s all the story you get and need with a game like this. Its mechanics and euphoric gameplay do ALL the heavy lifting, so you just sit back, and let your natural biological aversion for all things artificial and intelligent from taking your job as a cracked crackhead supersoldier. GRAPHICS AND SOUND compliment this game extremely well. The devs made excellent use of their game’s limitations to decorate their slaughterfest with beautifully simplistic art that doesn’t look realistic, but not cartoony either. I think SYNTHETIK will go down as a game that “still looks good after decades”. The sound design is incredible. It compliments your adrenaline rush with dopamine releasing audio cues and highly satisfying sound effects, from gunfire, to reloading, jamming, and the sweet sound of a new upgrade making you FEEL like you just got something powerful. All set to a banger soundtrack that goes from low bassy stealth tunes to full blown phonk bangers that get the adrenaline pumping and get you in the zone to FUCK. SHIT. UP.
After 13.5 hours, I made it to the final boss for the first time, and the adrenaline hit I took while attempting it for the first time was the biggest I’ve had in YEARS. That was when I knew this game was something else. Over the course of the next 11 hours of gameplay, Rodas and I experienced many runs that could have gone to the end, only to die on floor 4 or the final boss gauntlet. Sometimes to our own stupidity, sometimes to janky bullshit as a result of the robot god sabotaging the undersea cables linking Europe with Australia, and spiking his ms to 300 ping. Every time we worked together, fucked up, laughed, we strategized, learned, and parted for the next run in a few days. When we finally beat the final boss after 24.5 hours of playtime on my end, the sound we made the moment we beat the game can only be described as pure, masculine bro-hype. The kind you hear when an squad of sweats win their first CS:GO regional tournament. It was glorious, a truly well fought dopamine rush of such beauty that all men should seek to earn. AND THEN SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED. But you’re going to have to see that for yourself. So go ahead, buy SYNTHETIK. It is WELL worth the price. Earn your victory on top of a pile of burning wreckage and silicon guts at the top of ARMAGEDDON.