I actually dont recommend this game, like at all, and you may be asking why did I rated this game so high in this review and the thing is that while I don’t recommend it I actually like the game. This game is a remaster of the original game but with some minimal (and I mean minimal) graphical improvements and some extra content that is not the best, if you haven’t played the original game try the demo (you can find it in the original game steam page, don’t worry is not gonna spoil you the original game), if you like the content in there you are gonna love the original game, only buy this version if is in a discount or you don’t mind paying for a minimal bonus.
Now if you have played the original game I’m going to say this, the new content in here is really meh, there are some good jokes, but the new content usually falls flat, the new content is like 3-5 hours long and is going to most likely disappoint you, and because of that I wouldn’t recommend buying the game for a second time, but if you still want to see the new content then risk it buying it, but don’t have your hopes up. [spoilers ahead, stop reading if you dont want to spoil your experience] Now if you are reading this, I guess that you don’t care about spoilers, but if you want to know what is the new content, 90% of that is just a bucket… and bucket jokes… yeah, I’m not kidding, the game is a cash grab and at the same time is self-aware about it.
Ok so what’s the other 10%, well is more linear bonus areas that have some good gags mostly about videogames critics, bad deluxe version and uninspired sequels, basically the game make a joke about the new content being lacking (being only a space where you have some limited jumps) and how the original game is better, and the end the narrator reads some steam reviews of the original game about some people didn’t like the original game, and because of that the narrator ditches the idea of a deluxe version of the game and makes new mechanics for a sequel, those mechanics are dumb things like an infinite hole that is not infinite, a button that speaks your name but in reality only says Jim, collectibles that does nothing and… AND… the bucket. After that the narrator merges the original game with those mechanics so you have the same game but with bucket jokes, so yeah, they are the same endings but you have a optional bucket.
Well, the endings change a little bit because of the bucket, and some jokes are good, but you can understand when I say that the games stretch the bucket joke a lot being repetitive in a lot of places, and if you hate the bucket then you are going to hate the 90% of the content.
At the end, you get all the collectibles because you replay the game with the bucket but it gives you a new ending where you remember the good times you had playing the new content and the narrator being obsessed of playing the game again, and again, and again with new content and old content.
In the end you unlock an epilogue, one that explains that the game is well stretched, that the game is self-aware about not having in reality new content and that it reuses a lot of the old content to get new content and the point is that yes this is a cash grab, yes, the developers actually ran the Stanley parable into the mud making content that is not good, and says that it doesn’t matter, and makes you create another sequel, how? Well, they add another number in the main screen and you select a new subtitle of the game every time you start the game, so it’s a new game even if the content is the same.
So, after all that I feel kinda weird, I understand what the game tried to say, and I actually like how they did it, they make fun of me as a consumer, they make fun of the game industry, they make fun at all those remastered or deluxe version that add nothing to the experience and they make fun of it by making the game that of a new version that is the same but with some extras that are not really worthy. And because that I have to say, the game is not worth paying for, and is design in that way.
But like I said still I like it, it made me think about how much I have spent in other similar games like the numerous HD collection of old games, the 3D mario collection, DLC of games that adds almost nothing like the sonic mania plus or those XCOM cosmetics pack, how many times I have payed for skyrim, how they sold us a bad silent hill remaster, or even things like the walking dead colletion I mean that game is just the same story that a lot of people have played.
Maybe we are the problem on how the industry is like, maybe we shouldn’t participate in those collections, remasters or deluxe versions… maybe I’m just rambling maybe I’m trying to cope that I wasted money in this game… I don’t know... but at least I like the game even if I don’t recommend it and that’s something… I guess
Now if you have played the original game I’m going to say this, the new content in here is really meh, there are some good jokes, but the new content usually falls flat, the new content is like 3-5 hours long and is going to most likely disappoint you, and because of that I wouldn’t recommend buying the game for a second time, but if you still want to see the new content then risk it buying it, but don’t have your hopes up. [spoilers ahead, stop reading if you dont want to spoil your experience] Now if you are reading this, I guess that you don’t care about spoilers, but if you want to know what is the new content, 90% of that is just a bucket… and bucket jokes… yeah, I’m not kidding, the game is a cash grab and at the same time is self-aware about it.
Ok so what’s the other 10%, well is more linear bonus areas that have some good gags mostly about videogames critics, bad deluxe version and uninspired sequels, basically the game make a joke about the new content being lacking (being only a space where you have some limited jumps) and how the original game is better, and the end the narrator reads some steam reviews of the original game about some people didn’t like the original game, and because of that the narrator ditches the idea of a deluxe version of the game and makes new mechanics for a sequel, those mechanics are dumb things like an infinite hole that is not infinite, a button that speaks your name but in reality only says Jim, collectibles that does nothing and… AND… the bucket. After that the narrator merges the original game with those mechanics so you have the same game but with bucket jokes, so yeah, they are the same endings but you have a optional bucket.
Well, the endings change a little bit because of the bucket, and some jokes are good, but you can understand when I say that the games stretch the bucket joke a lot being repetitive in a lot of places, and if you hate the bucket then you are going to hate the 90% of the content.
At the end, you get all the collectibles because you replay the game with the bucket but it gives you a new ending where you remember the good times you had playing the new content and the narrator being obsessed of playing the game again, and again, and again with new content and old content.
In the end you unlock an epilogue, one that explains that the game is well stretched, that the game is self-aware about not having in reality new content and that it reuses a lot of the old content to get new content and the point is that yes this is a cash grab, yes, the developers actually ran the Stanley parable into the mud making content that is not good, and says that it doesn’t matter, and makes you create another sequel, how? Well, they add another number in the main screen and you select a new subtitle of the game every time you start the game, so it’s a new game even if the content is the same.
So, after all that I feel kinda weird, I understand what the game tried to say, and I actually like how they did it, they make fun of me as a consumer, they make fun of the game industry, they make fun at all those remastered or deluxe version that add nothing to the experience and they make fun of it by making the game that of a new version that is the same but with some extras that are not really worthy. And because that I have to say, the game is not worth paying for, and is design in that way.
But like I said still I like it, it made me think about how much I have spent in other similar games like the numerous HD collection of old games, the 3D mario collection, DLC of games that adds almost nothing like the sonic mania plus or those XCOM cosmetics pack, how many times I have payed for skyrim, how they sold us a bad silent hill remaster, or even things like the walking dead colletion I mean that game is just the same story that a lot of people have played.
Maybe we are the problem on how the industry is like, maybe we shouldn’t participate in those collections, remasters or deluxe versions… maybe I’m just rambling maybe I’m trying to cope that I wasted money in this game… I don’t know... but at least I like the game even if I don’t recommend it and that’s something… I guess