cool concept executed to mixed results

puzzles are all too easy and the narration tries way too goddamn hard to be portal, the stanley parable and a self help book all at the same time while succeeding at none of them

it's alright and has some interesting moments but it's so brief and simplistic overall that the whole game feels like a glorified tutorial. play antichamber instead

It's truly baffling to me that you can make a game about dreams and perception of reality and have such a huge proportion of it be just making the player walk down bland hallways, the same uninspired motifs plastered everywhere over and over, whilst the player desperately hovers their cursor over everything they come across to find whichever object the game arbitrarily deems interactable.

It feels like so many developers misunderstood what made Portal great, thinking that it was just the light spatial and physics puzzles accompanied by silly, fun voiceovers, when actually it was the fact that that game pushed into territory that felt legitimately experimental, surprising and exciting in the context of mainstream videogames fifteen years ago. There are a handful of cool moments in Superliminal, more than my rating really implies, but it genuinely left my imagination feeling sapped from the experience as I longed for it to stop telling me to think outside the box until such a point as it had actually done so itself.

It has been YEARS since I've played a Mega Man game. I'd heard mixed things about this particular one, but I was excited to jump back in after a long hiatus. But my excitement soon turned into nervousness when I started playing, because someone on the level design team LOVED spikes, and especially enemies coming from off-screen and knocking you into bottomless pits. It was aggravating, but, the stages got progressively easier the more weapons I unlocked (I guess that's how it goes in Mega Man, use your powers to ignore all the bullshit), so I found myself having more fun the more I pushed through. Drill Man's stage can suck it though.

Questionable design aside, there's a lot I enjoyed about Mega Man IV. The most obvious thing is the huge presentation boost. Not just the opening cutscene and the new weapon acquisition animation, but also the level themes. The coolest thing about the first Mega Man is how its level design really played into its themes; Cut Man's stage really felt like infiltrating this towering fortress, Guts Man's stage felt like descending down a huge construction shaft. MMII and III had way more visually creative themes, which was certainly for the better, but lost some of that... grounded adventurousness for lack of a better term. MMIV incorporates that same feeling, but with the way more interesting aesthetics of II and III, making for what is easily the best looking game thus far, and by a much more substantial margin than you'd expect.

I also like this game's (slight) emphasis on exploration. It's really not all that special (and from what I know the rest of the classic series and especially the X series do this way more), but it's cool to occasionally stumble upon a different path and be rewarded with the balloon and wire (which are both awesome, btw).

And the core gameplay feels just as good as ever. Mega Man's still got the slide, he has the charge shot finally, Rush still rocks, Eddie's always a welcome surprise whenever he shows up, and I think the weapons are... ok. I like how the Pharaoh Shot essential gets two fully charged shots per use by hitting an enemy while charging and then throwing it; Rain Flush and Flash Stopper are great for when you don't wanna deal with things, and I like how the level design makes you use these two like you would Rush or the items, navigating around enemies rather than strictly being combat weapons. I like the Dust Crusher and the Drill Bomb as alternatives that aren't just a worse version of the Mega Buster (although I usually just used the charge shot). The Ring Boomerang sucks, I don't think I ever used the Dive Missile for anything that wasn't a boss, and the Skull Barrier is great for letting me ignore everything in Drill Man's stage, but I rarely used it outside of that. Nothing here replaces the Mega Buster for me, nor is anything as fun and broken as the Thunder Beam or the Metal Blade, but I also don't feel like most of them are worthless imitators of my basic attack like most of MMIII's arsenal.

The soundtrack I also think is... ok. It's head-boppy enough while I'm playing, but there's nothing here'd I'd go out of my way to listen to sadly. BUT there's also nothing I actively dislike, which I think is a first for a classic Mega Man.

Yea, I guess this game being just... ok... could summarize my whole opinion on it, and I guess in that sense I don't really disagree with the consensus on this entry. And as future classic games continue to iteratively improve on the formula, maybe I won't think of this as fondly. But, frustrating as it was at times, I did have a lot of fun with this one! I wouldn't shrug it off as a worthless entry in the series, and I think it at the very least is better than both I and III.

Odeio esse jogo. Odeio a Tencent por ter comprado esse jogo. Odeio o fortnite. Toda vez que jogo esse jogo, me irrito profundamente, sem motivo aparente. Todos os bonecos que RIOT lança sempre apelam para o conteúdo sexual (Lançaram uma vampira com uma coxa bizarramente grande, porque eles queriam fazer ela parecer uma GOTA DE SANGUE AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA)

Caso 1: Kai'sa, foi lançada em 2018 após longos períodos sem um campeão monstro de verdade, como Rek'sai ou Vel'koz. Oque eles me lançam, eu te pergunto????? Uma poha de uma mina que vem do vazio (Literalmente o inferno) que tem um simbionte colado no corpo (parada meio venon tlgd?) que por algum motivo faz ela parecer um piloto de eva, e um cabelo liso. RIOT. EU NÃO QUERO UMA MINA DO VAZIO, EU QUERO UM MONSTRO DE VERDADE.

Caso 2: Aurelion Sol é um dragão espacial que constroi/destroi galáxias. Um boneco super legal na lore, mas cara, in game, esse boneco é hprrível. é literalmente um dragao que tem q ficar balançando um bambolê para dar dano. Lógico que essa coisa não ia ter um win rate alto. E riot completamente abandonou. "Mas Marcos, lançaram um rework dele recentemente". EU SEI. Mataram completamente a essencia do boneco.

Caso 3: Modos repetitivos tem se tornado cada vez mais comum dentro do LOL. Olha, se você tem uma ideia legal uma vez: Parabéns, você fez um bom trabalho! Mas isso não justifica você ficar literalmente SPAMANDO esse modo de jogo todo trimestre, só porque você tá sem ideia. VAI TRABALHAR. Mesma coisa aconteceu com o modo do rei destruído, e entre outros. Sem falar que modos que eram bem legais antigamente, eles simplesmente não trazem mais, tipo o modo projeto, ascensão, etc.

Caso 4: Desbalanceamento tem se tornado um problema constante. Quando se trata de um jogo que depende um Multiplayer, Itens e campeões serem justos se tornam um elemento necessário, porém NÃO É ISSO QUE ACONTECE! Cara, QUASE TODO campeão que lança ultimamente tem um kit quebrado, tipo a Nillah, samira, nafiri, etc, surgindo com 55% de win rate em qualquer lane, buildando literalmente qualquer coisa. Isso não é justo. Como vc quer falar balanceamento com uma coisa dessas soltas pelo Servidor. Impossível. Literalmente parecem que alguns personagens são PIORES do que outros. e até aí ok. meu problema é que se torna injogável para qualquer campeão se não os queridinhos da riot.

Caso 5: Por falar em queridinhos da riot. Um topico muito importante. CAMPEÕES SÃO ESQUECIDOS DENTRO DO GAME. Enquanto temos campeões como Lux e MF com 19 SKINS. 19 SKINS. existem campeões com 2, 3 e talvez 4. Que são basicamente inexistentes dentro do game. Não recebem um pingo de atenção. Cara tem campeoes que com 1 ano de lançamento, já tinham mais skins que o skarner!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


Conclusão: Por mais que esse jogo seja péssimo, tenebroso ou qualquer outro adjetivo existente no mundo, eu ainda jogo. E jogo muito. Por que????? Não sei!

Não joguem esse game.