xNoirNoirre
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It's really interesting reflecting on this season nearly 2 years later. This was Donald Mustard's final season as the 'loremaster' of the game, and you can tell because everything made afterwards seems to have nothing to do with what was being built up to. I know Fortnite and narrative might not cross a lot of people's minds, but I really appreciated the purpose it gave to each map change and new gameplay element. My friend filled me in on what I missed from Chapter 1 Season 5 - Chapter 2 Season 6, and Chapter 3 Season 2 felt really story focused with the war between the factions and all the tanks and blimps and stuff. During the end event where Slone was seemingly killed, and Jonesy+Dwayne Johnson went off to fight the true villain from the EU, it really felt like a huge milestone in the story had been met and that we were nearing a conclusion or 2nd arc. Immediately after that, this season felt like a filler episode of sorts, as nothing happened for months. Turns out that those story threads would never get resolved in any meaningful way. Furthermore, this season teased the future in terms of collabs and reception: Darth Vader, Dragonball items, and the beginning of people not hating on the game anymore. Looking back this really was the turning point where the story was ditched for insane collabs.
Yes, I played yet another of these.
I paid full price for this one, too.
Am I down bad or do I just enjoy mahjong?
It's probably both.
But yeah this was fun.
Definitely features some of my least favourite character designs in the few games of this calibre I've played but it also features some cute girls and the closest I'll ever see to full on nudity in these games with bubbles and the smallest bikini I've ever seen, not to mention the camel toes.
Also I have to mention the huge titties that make even my back hurt.
God damn.
I paid full price for this one, too.
Am I down bad or do I just enjoy mahjong?
It's probably both.
But yeah this was fun.
Definitely features some of my least favourite character designs in the few games of this calibre I've played but it also features some cute girls and the closest I'll ever see to full on nudity in these games with bubbles and the smallest bikini I've ever seen, not to mention the camel toes.
Also I have to mention the huge titties that make even my back hurt.
God damn.
This is a minigame collection for Wii based on 45 minutes of content (although actually maybe like 25), the Cars "TV series" that aired on Toon Disney back in 2008-2010.
7 of the 11 shorts are given 5 minigames that you're supposed to play with friends, but since I have no friends I'm playing it by myself.
"Rescue Squad Mater", the first of these, has a driving minigame that takes a moment to get used to, which transitions into a balance minigame that doesn't work since the way you hold the controller makes you walk forward and off a balcony to your doom.
The third of these is a "point and shoot" minigame where you put out fires, which was actually pretty fun, and so was #4, which was a "catch the falling objects" minigame, although there's a delay when it comes to moving left and right.
The final minigame for this short is another driving section.
"El Materdor"s first minigame is a terrible matching game that shows you where everyone is before the first section but then doesn't for the subsequent ones.
The second of the 5 is a sorta "capture the flag"-esque driving game where you steal a flag from a computer opponent. It's pretty easy to cheese this as the computer doesn't even try if you boost away from them.
Minigame 3 is a collectathon in which you collect roses while avoiding bulldozers, and 4 is one where you wave the remote around like an idiot to get the bull's attention.
The final minigame for this short, I'm actually not sure what you're supposed to do since it would rather show than tell. I was driving around trying to figure it out and I didn't get any points until near the end and I'm not sure what I did.
Weirdly, this section didn't use the tilt controls to steer, but the other ones did.
Short #3 is "Tokyo Mater", which opens with a painting minigame. If you run out of spray paint you have to jerk off your Wiimote and a forklift can get in your way and run down your time while you paint because you can't see what you're doing.
Next is a drifting minigame that uses tilt controls, followed by a Space Invaders clone where you dodge ninja stars (which was kinda boring) and a broken driving section.
The finale of this section is a surprisingly fun "duck and jump" section that speeds up as you play.
"Mater The Greater" is next, with a pump action game to start, followed by a jumprope minigame with more screen-filling distractions, 10 rounds of "Where's Waldo" for some reason and a run and jump minigame that just does not work in the slightest.
Finally there's another tilt minigame that has the same issues as the fire one.
"Monster Truck Mater" is the second-to-last set of minigames, starting with a repeat of the collectathon minigame from El Materdor but instead of collecting roses it's ice cream and instead of avoiding a bull you avoid just some guy.
Then it's another "capture the flag" game but with no computer players so it's pretty easy (except when the wrestler car you have to avoid drives on top of the goal).
The third of these is an arcade shooter style minigame where you spam A while your cursor is pointed at a certain point on a wrestler, with a literal fighting game next where it's you Vs. the computer.
The final minigame for this short is just quicktime events.
The last set of minigames in this game are based on the Sci-fi short "UFM", which starts with...a game where you knock down stacks of cans, and then a game where you shoot hubcaps at tires.
There's at least a minigame that follows the story of the short next, where you fly through rings, and a Frogger-style stealth mission, ending with a driving mission.
And that's it.
There's "Freeplay Mode" where if you get at least a bronze trophy in a minigame you can replay it to your heart's content (which I will not be doing), and there's a "Playlist" function which I can assume lets you make your own minigame sessions.
In the "Bonus" section you can see the worst concept art I've ever seen and character models.
Other than that, there's collectable pin badges, bobblers and snowglobes you get for doing certain things in certain minigames, trophies for getting a certain score in a minigame and money you get for getting points in minigames that you use to customise your character (which I also will not be doing).
Some of these minigames are fun but the controls and objectives on others are pretty hard to understand.
If you see this game for cheap you should pick it up but I wouldn't pay over £4 for it.
7 of the 11 shorts are given 5 minigames that you're supposed to play with friends, but since I have no friends I'm playing it by myself.
"Rescue Squad Mater", the first of these, has a driving minigame that takes a moment to get used to, which transitions into a balance minigame that doesn't work since the way you hold the controller makes you walk forward and off a balcony to your doom.
The third of these is a "point and shoot" minigame where you put out fires, which was actually pretty fun, and so was #4, which was a "catch the falling objects" minigame, although there's a delay when it comes to moving left and right.
The final minigame for this short is another driving section.
"El Materdor"s first minigame is a terrible matching game that shows you where everyone is before the first section but then doesn't for the subsequent ones.
The second of the 5 is a sorta "capture the flag"-esque driving game where you steal a flag from a computer opponent. It's pretty easy to cheese this as the computer doesn't even try if you boost away from them.
Minigame 3 is a collectathon in which you collect roses while avoiding bulldozers, and 4 is one where you wave the remote around like an idiot to get the bull's attention.
The final minigame for this short, I'm actually not sure what you're supposed to do since it would rather show than tell. I was driving around trying to figure it out and I didn't get any points until near the end and I'm not sure what I did.
Weirdly, this section didn't use the tilt controls to steer, but the other ones did.
Short #3 is "Tokyo Mater", which opens with a painting minigame. If you run out of spray paint you have to jerk off your Wiimote and a forklift can get in your way and run down your time while you paint because you can't see what you're doing.
Next is a drifting minigame that uses tilt controls, followed by a Space Invaders clone where you dodge ninja stars (which was kinda boring) and a broken driving section.
The finale of this section is a surprisingly fun "duck and jump" section that speeds up as you play.
"Mater The Greater" is next, with a pump action game to start, followed by a jumprope minigame with more screen-filling distractions, 10 rounds of "Where's Waldo" for some reason and a run and jump minigame that just does not work in the slightest.
Finally there's another tilt minigame that has the same issues as the fire one.
"Monster Truck Mater" is the second-to-last set of minigames, starting with a repeat of the collectathon minigame from El Materdor but instead of collecting roses it's ice cream and instead of avoiding a bull you avoid just some guy.
Then it's another "capture the flag" game but with no computer players so it's pretty easy (except when the wrestler car you have to avoid drives on top of the goal).
The third of these is an arcade shooter style minigame where you spam A while your cursor is pointed at a certain point on a wrestler, with a literal fighting game next where it's you Vs. the computer.
The final minigame for this short is just quicktime events.
The last set of minigames in this game are based on the Sci-fi short "UFM", which starts with...a game where you knock down stacks of cans, and then a game where you shoot hubcaps at tires.
There's at least a minigame that follows the story of the short next, where you fly through rings, and a Frogger-style stealth mission, ending with a driving mission.
And that's it.
There's "Freeplay Mode" where if you get at least a bronze trophy in a minigame you can replay it to your heart's content (which I will not be doing), and there's a "Playlist" function which I can assume lets you make your own minigame sessions.
In the "Bonus" section you can see the worst concept art I've ever seen and character models.
Other than that, there's collectable pin badges, bobblers and snowglobes you get for doing certain things in certain minigames, trophies for getting a certain score in a minigame and money you get for getting points in minigames that you use to customise your character (which I also will not be doing).
Some of these minigames are fun but the controls and objectives on others are pretty hard to understand.
If you see this game for cheap you should pick it up but I wouldn't pay over £4 for it.
Google Play Games
2013
Not a game. Call me when they put the Steam launcher on here.
Cruelty Squad
2021
This review contains spoilers
(REPLAY)
Ah Cruelty Squad, what a an amazing game you are! To be honest i decided to replay you purely because why not and yeah i enjoyed it again! I don't know how to do this but i guess i'll kinda say fuck it we ball! This one gonna be a lot more just kinda rambling than anything actual analysis so we go!!
GAMEPLAY:
Well Cruelty Squad is without a doubt one of the best immersive sims i've ever played, also one of the best Tactical shooters i've played ever too, the hard and quick tense quick thinking in an active gunfight to the slow and methodical and planning before missions and in between fights, it does the blend of quick thinking and slow planning gameplay so fucking well, it's hard to describe it via words, it's really something you have to play yourself to fully understand, but i'll try my best! So you load up the first level, you have to kill 2 targets for your company, Cruelty Squad, alright, you start with a pistol and an SMG and load in right next to the front door of the building, you walk in andddd likely get shot dead in about 3 seconds max and in your head will explode to deny that Cruelty Squad ever sent anyone to kill these 2 guys. So after that happened well time to think, you can go around the back into the back office or perhaps through a vent into the bathroom right next to one of the targets or you could perhaps go through the fight in the front of the building again but slowing and more tactically, holding corners and chokepoints and aiming for one shot headshots and quick reacting to the overwhelming numbers of security, that's the core of Cruelty Squad gameplay, then after your first mission you have a little cash so you can buy implants, these are pretty much your game changers, from armor to helmets, to speed upgrades, to jump boosts, to unlimited ammo, to more unusual implants such as the flower on your head that acts as a parachute to the all the biopunk styled implants full of the nastiness that Biopunk includes and it's great. All these implants act as your playstyles and how you can gain advantages in levels, to showcase, my playthrough on this replay was the equivalent of that kid in the bouncy castle that jumps really high and grand slams the other kids in the castle, with my bouncy suit and Icaros Machine combo, but most of all, Cruelty Squad pushes to experiment, the game wants to mess around and finds out what works for each level! that's the kinda tomfoolery you can get up to in Cruelty Squad and it's so much fun. The weapons is also amazing, they all hit the marks of meaty and hard hitting weapons, combat is fast in Cruelty Squad, a single shot can kill both you and the enemy instantly, and so the weapons reflect that! even the smallest pistol has a nice punch to it and can kill in a single shot! To the larger machine guns and heavy weapons that have a nice crunch and punch to them! And these a gun for everyone, with a large amount of weapons for any problem! On the enemy front we have a large amount of enemies, from basic grunts to the heavy weapon and armored Nercomechs to the swamp Snipers, to Shock Troopers, to the more weird ones such as Flesh Pigs and Golems! There's a lot of the things that can rail your shit and you need to work around!
Overall, this is one of most fun games i've ever played, while i like other games more than Cruelty Squad, i can't deny that this game is fucking amazing and just so much fun!!!
STORY:
Well the story of Cruelty Squad is uhhhhh, it's good, the overall story is mentioned only through talking to NPCs and the Handler mission overviews, and honestly, you could play the entire game without even knowing anything or caring about the story at all! That's perfectly fine, this is a game where the story doesn't really matter, but is more something you can look into at your own time! However to talk about it, Immortality has been found andddd life fucking sucks, for a month's rent you can just come back via flesh neruotransmitters, and the result of this is that everyone is just fucking bored and miserable and the cost of life was already low and after immorality was found, it's below the fucking sea level, and so death does not really matter anymore and death, and even more so company and Corporation death units, you, are hired for Cruelty Squad, a subsidiary company of Control, and you go do hit missions for this company. Once you reach the level "Idiot Party", you ain't on a hit mission, you are on a mission to set a example, you are here to kill the rich, acquire control, unlimited power. Right after you are sent to the level "Office" with the mission of "Pain" you are here to kill the heads of Control, but you will never break this cycle of pain, the heads of Control will just come back and the world will never change from of pain, so after this hard reset at Control. After this, you decide to head to the Archon Grid, the place between life and death, heaven and hell, you seek to disable the Archon Grid, to do this you fight and kill Abraxas, a god, or great Archon of the early Christian belief system of Gnosticism, the meaning of Abraxas and the reveals done here and the fact he is the god of this world means the world was always inherently corrupt and cruel and filled with this suffering and so you seek to disable it. After killing Abraxas you move into the inner Archon Grid and disable it. This is a short lived "victory" as death is just no longer a thing, and life eternal, so after a moment, you are back into this cycle of pain. A Entrapment. Unknown amount of years later however guessed to be 30 years later, you buy a house in a small village in a remote valley. Here you meet the Triagons, 3 gods, after fighting your way through them and the village you meet the targets, 3 people that are likely representations of the Triagons. The first Triagon is born of malice, grabs the flow of solar terror and the world and births a germ, it extends it's arms beyond the veil of the sun and power and took it's share and hold in the world, the disease spreads, it took control of all biological things and pumps and pulsate, life is born, the infection is final. The second Triagon is born from this life, and it seeks death it demanded calm, the feeding begins, it saw guts, decay, and metabolism, it started to process the glut of excess organic mass, to introduce limits, Chlorhydric acid, Existence became scarce, suffering was born, the Triagon pleased, Metabolic domination. The third Triagon was born of Death, it saw that the world was radiating excess energy, it wanted to put great things into motion, but greatness wasn't possible without value, the first transaction, It took its blade and cut a large hole into the boundary, creating a sudden flash of high volume transactional power, and just for a moment things seeped value into themselves, assuming souls, the second transaction, The hole was quickly mended, and the overpowering transmission of value was cut short, but in that moment the seed of primordial financial might was planted, and the world took on its transactional form, conflict and discord emerged, and the third Triagon was ecstatic, the third transaction. After this, your Hope Eradicated however your now Enlightened. You embrace the second Triagon, you embrace Death. Using your new enlightened status, you move to become the most powerful person on the planet, you have to kill the CEO of Cruelty Squad, after a hard won fight you kill the CEO and take his place. You are greeted with a wall with a face and the words LIFE. And now you are being spoken to from a unknown force. I WEEP. YOU ARE A ROTTEN HUSK. YOU OVERFLOW WITH BOUNDLESS POWER. YOU HAVE THE SOUL OF A EMPEROR. SACRIFICIAL HERO. BLESSED BY PRIMORDIAL LUCK. YOUR FRIENDS ARE IN HELL YET YOU SMILE. ONLY GOOD THINGS WILL COME TO SOMEONE LIKE YOU. SET GOALS. HAVE A TEN YEAR PLAN. INVEST. WAKE UP EARLY. CEO MINDSET. GOOD LUCK....Despite everything, despite being the most powerful person on the planet, your still human, you are no better off than when you were a simply hitman at the start of the game, but you can change it, reset it.
TRAUMA LOOP....You head into the Trauma Loop in search of the Cradle of Life, because only then life and the world can be reset. After painful and painful treks into the darkness of the Trauma Loop you finally reach of the Cradle of Life. The world breaks down, the world around you failing and collapsing, you lead legions of people towards DEATH, you feel and see a scene from your childhood, you abandoned your dreams. You are a high net worth individual, an expanding vortex of pathetic trauma. A beautiful fucking nerve ape. The value of Life is negative. The surface is full of cracks, a turgid light shines through. Fleshy primordial bodies sluggishly roll down the slope. Only you slide upwards, with a celestial step. You become beautified, a saintly figure. Your pristine idiocy reveals a safe path through the impenetrable fog of Life. Your dull sword cuts through the weak tendons and membranes of the garden of corruption. Sit on the throne of contentment and ferment. Inspect the eternal blue skies of your kingdom. You come to a realization. You pick up an onion and begin peeling. Onion layer one. Onion layer two. Onion layer three. Onion layer n^n. Aeons have passed and the onion is fully peeled. Nothing remains. It's perfect. You get lost in the point that remains where the onion used to be. Synaptic cascade, neurological catastrophe. The point becomes infinitely dense, the universe condenses into a unicellular being. It screams sin. It craves happiness. It's done with this world. It tries to commit suicide but fails. Sad pathetic mess. You feel pity and disgust but in a way only a being of pure grace can. In your violent mercy you terminate the worldlife. The living organism, in a situation determined by the play of energy on the surface of the globe, ordinarily receives more energy than is necessary for maintaining life; the excess energy (wealth) can be used for the growth of a system (e.g., an organism); if the system can no longer grow, or if the excess cannot be completely absorbed in it's growth, it must necessarily be lost without profit; it must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically.....You reset everything, everything back to a point where life and death are a thing, you bring value and worth back into life, you bring and usher in a GOLDEN AGE, where life is worth living and has value. You bring back a world worth living.
Overall this makes sound fucking insane but i can tell you the meaning and idea behind the story of Cruelty Squad is amazing and i love it so much, and i highly recommend looking into it.
WORLD:
cruelty Squad does a amazing job better it's world with almost purely side npcs and levels, you can tell the world is barely holding together and how cruel everything is. The game shows you how shitty of a world it is, from fact death units for companies are a thing, to the fact the companies are unchallenged and one dude proposing a 1% tax on companies makes him a target to companies says everything. The world looks rotten and broken and it perfectly shows this with how everything is. To the environments of each level looking very distinct and shows it personality of each level and each one looks good and amazing. To the more weird level, such as Archon Grid where the world is in between each other, or Trauma Loop where the Cradle of Life is actively trying stop you and throws everything it has at you. Amazing levels all around!!!
MUSIC:
UHHHHHH Music is uh, it's unique to say the least. It's good tho! But it's not something i would listen too actively tho but we got a lot good! Combat Cocktail, Rent Due, Divinity of The Office, GOLDEN AGE, Dance Room Beats!, and my personal favorite!, Sacrificial Mission, Each level does music well that suits each level!
OVERALL:
Cruelty Squad replay has made me realize, while it was one of the best games i've ever played, it's not in like the top 5 of my favorite games, but hey that doesn't mean i don't love it, i do! It's just i love some other games more! but still Cruelty Squad is fucking amazing and if you can get past the weird looks, you should 100% buy and play Cruelty Squad as it's almost unlike anything else! God what a game!!!
This was longer than i thought but eh i have a lot of love and enjoyment in this game so why not make it long!
Ah Cruelty Squad, what a an amazing game you are! To be honest i decided to replay you purely because why not and yeah i enjoyed it again! I don't know how to do this but i guess i'll kinda say fuck it we ball! This one gonna be a lot more just kinda rambling than anything actual analysis so we go!!
GAMEPLAY:
Well Cruelty Squad is without a doubt one of the best immersive sims i've ever played, also one of the best Tactical shooters i've played ever too, the hard and quick tense quick thinking in an active gunfight to the slow and methodical and planning before missions and in between fights, it does the blend of quick thinking and slow planning gameplay so fucking well, it's hard to describe it via words, it's really something you have to play yourself to fully understand, but i'll try my best! So you load up the first level, you have to kill 2 targets for your company, Cruelty Squad, alright, you start with a pistol and an SMG and load in right next to the front door of the building, you walk in andddd likely get shot dead in about 3 seconds max and in your head will explode to deny that Cruelty Squad ever sent anyone to kill these 2 guys. So after that happened well time to think, you can go around the back into the back office or perhaps through a vent into the bathroom right next to one of the targets or you could perhaps go through the fight in the front of the building again but slowing and more tactically, holding corners and chokepoints and aiming for one shot headshots and quick reacting to the overwhelming numbers of security, that's the core of Cruelty Squad gameplay, then after your first mission you have a little cash so you can buy implants, these are pretty much your game changers, from armor to helmets, to speed upgrades, to jump boosts, to unlimited ammo, to more unusual implants such as the flower on your head that acts as a parachute to the all the biopunk styled implants full of the nastiness that Biopunk includes and it's great. All these implants act as your playstyles and how you can gain advantages in levels, to showcase, my playthrough on this replay was the equivalent of that kid in the bouncy castle that jumps really high and grand slams the other kids in the castle, with my bouncy suit and Icaros Machine combo, but most of all, Cruelty Squad pushes to experiment, the game wants to mess around and finds out what works for each level! that's the kinda tomfoolery you can get up to in Cruelty Squad and it's so much fun. The weapons is also amazing, they all hit the marks of meaty and hard hitting weapons, combat is fast in Cruelty Squad, a single shot can kill both you and the enemy instantly, and so the weapons reflect that! even the smallest pistol has a nice punch to it and can kill in a single shot! To the larger machine guns and heavy weapons that have a nice crunch and punch to them! And these a gun for everyone, with a large amount of weapons for any problem! On the enemy front we have a large amount of enemies, from basic grunts to the heavy weapon and armored Nercomechs to the swamp Snipers, to Shock Troopers, to the more weird ones such as Flesh Pigs and Golems! There's a lot of the things that can rail your shit and you need to work around!
Overall, this is one of most fun games i've ever played, while i like other games more than Cruelty Squad, i can't deny that this game is fucking amazing and just so much fun!!!
STORY:
Well the story of Cruelty Squad is uhhhhh, it's good, the overall story is mentioned only through talking to NPCs and the Handler mission overviews, and honestly, you could play the entire game without even knowing anything or caring about the story at all! That's perfectly fine, this is a game where the story doesn't really matter, but is more something you can look into at your own time! However to talk about it, Immortality has been found andddd life fucking sucks, for a month's rent you can just come back via flesh neruotransmitters, and the result of this is that everyone is just fucking bored and miserable and the cost of life was already low and after immorality was found, it's below the fucking sea level, and so death does not really matter anymore and death, and even more so company and Corporation death units, you, are hired for Cruelty Squad, a subsidiary company of Control, and you go do hit missions for this company. Once you reach the level "Idiot Party", you ain't on a hit mission, you are on a mission to set a example, you are here to kill the rich, acquire control, unlimited power. Right after you are sent to the level "Office" with the mission of "Pain" you are here to kill the heads of Control, but you will never break this cycle of pain, the heads of Control will just come back and the world will never change from of pain, so after this hard reset at Control. After this, you decide to head to the Archon Grid, the place between life and death, heaven and hell, you seek to disable the Archon Grid, to do this you fight and kill Abraxas, a god, or great Archon of the early Christian belief system of Gnosticism, the meaning of Abraxas and the reveals done here and the fact he is the god of this world means the world was always inherently corrupt and cruel and filled with this suffering and so you seek to disable it. After killing Abraxas you move into the inner Archon Grid and disable it. This is a short lived "victory" as death is just no longer a thing, and life eternal, so after a moment, you are back into this cycle of pain. A Entrapment. Unknown amount of years later however guessed to be 30 years later, you buy a house in a small village in a remote valley. Here you meet the Triagons, 3 gods, after fighting your way through them and the village you meet the targets, 3 people that are likely representations of the Triagons. The first Triagon is born of malice, grabs the flow of solar terror and the world and births a germ, it extends it's arms beyond the veil of the sun and power and took it's share and hold in the world, the disease spreads, it took control of all biological things and pumps and pulsate, life is born, the infection is final. The second Triagon is born from this life, and it seeks death it demanded calm, the feeding begins, it saw guts, decay, and metabolism, it started to process the glut of excess organic mass, to introduce limits, Chlorhydric acid, Existence became scarce, suffering was born, the Triagon pleased, Metabolic domination. The third Triagon was born of Death, it saw that the world was radiating excess energy, it wanted to put great things into motion, but greatness wasn't possible without value, the first transaction, It took its blade and cut a large hole into the boundary, creating a sudden flash of high volume transactional power, and just for a moment things seeped value into themselves, assuming souls, the second transaction, The hole was quickly mended, and the overpowering transmission of value was cut short, but in that moment the seed of primordial financial might was planted, and the world took on its transactional form, conflict and discord emerged, and the third Triagon was ecstatic, the third transaction. After this, your Hope Eradicated however your now Enlightened. You embrace the second Triagon, you embrace Death. Using your new enlightened status, you move to become the most powerful person on the planet, you have to kill the CEO of Cruelty Squad, after a hard won fight you kill the CEO and take his place. You are greeted with a wall with a face and the words LIFE. And now you are being spoken to from a unknown force. I WEEP. YOU ARE A ROTTEN HUSK. YOU OVERFLOW WITH BOUNDLESS POWER. YOU HAVE THE SOUL OF A EMPEROR. SACRIFICIAL HERO. BLESSED BY PRIMORDIAL LUCK. YOUR FRIENDS ARE IN HELL YET YOU SMILE. ONLY GOOD THINGS WILL COME TO SOMEONE LIKE YOU. SET GOALS. HAVE A TEN YEAR PLAN. INVEST. WAKE UP EARLY. CEO MINDSET. GOOD LUCK....Despite everything, despite being the most powerful person on the planet, your still human, you are no better off than when you were a simply hitman at the start of the game, but you can change it, reset it.
TRAUMA LOOP....You head into the Trauma Loop in search of the Cradle of Life, because only then life and the world can be reset. After painful and painful treks into the darkness of the Trauma Loop you finally reach of the Cradle of Life. The world breaks down, the world around you failing and collapsing, you lead legions of people towards DEATH, you feel and see a scene from your childhood, you abandoned your dreams. You are a high net worth individual, an expanding vortex of pathetic trauma. A beautiful fucking nerve ape. The value of Life is negative. The surface is full of cracks, a turgid light shines through. Fleshy primordial bodies sluggishly roll down the slope. Only you slide upwards, with a celestial step. You become beautified, a saintly figure. Your pristine idiocy reveals a safe path through the impenetrable fog of Life. Your dull sword cuts through the weak tendons and membranes of the garden of corruption. Sit on the throne of contentment and ferment. Inspect the eternal blue skies of your kingdom. You come to a realization. You pick up an onion and begin peeling. Onion layer one. Onion layer two. Onion layer three. Onion layer n^n. Aeons have passed and the onion is fully peeled. Nothing remains. It's perfect. You get lost in the point that remains where the onion used to be. Synaptic cascade, neurological catastrophe. The point becomes infinitely dense, the universe condenses into a unicellular being. It screams sin. It craves happiness. It's done with this world. It tries to commit suicide but fails. Sad pathetic mess. You feel pity and disgust but in a way only a being of pure grace can. In your violent mercy you terminate the worldlife. The living organism, in a situation determined by the play of energy on the surface of the globe, ordinarily receives more energy than is necessary for maintaining life; the excess energy (wealth) can be used for the growth of a system (e.g., an organism); if the system can no longer grow, or if the excess cannot be completely absorbed in it's growth, it must necessarily be lost without profit; it must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically.....You reset everything, everything back to a point where life and death are a thing, you bring value and worth back into life, you bring and usher in a GOLDEN AGE, where life is worth living and has value. You bring back a world worth living.
Overall this makes sound fucking insane but i can tell you the meaning and idea behind the story of Cruelty Squad is amazing and i love it so much, and i highly recommend looking into it.
WORLD:
cruelty Squad does a amazing job better it's world with almost purely side npcs and levels, you can tell the world is barely holding together and how cruel everything is. The game shows you how shitty of a world it is, from fact death units for companies are a thing, to the fact the companies are unchallenged and one dude proposing a 1% tax on companies makes him a target to companies says everything. The world looks rotten and broken and it perfectly shows this with how everything is. To the environments of each level looking very distinct and shows it personality of each level and each one looks good and amazing. To the more weird level, such as Archon Grid where the world is in between each other, or Trauma Loop where the Cradle of Life is actively trying stop you and throws everything it has at you. Amazing levels all around!!!
MUSIC:
UHHHHHH Music is uh, it's unique to say the least. It's good tho! But it's not something i would listen too actively tho but we got a lot good! Combat Cocktail, Rent Due, Divinity of The Office, GOLDEN AGE, Dance Room Beats!, and my personal favorite!, Sacrificial Mission, Each level does music well that suits each level!
OVERALL:
Cruelty Squad replay has made me realize, while it was one of the best games i've ever played, it's not in like the top 5 of my favorite games, but hey that doesn't mean i don't love it, i do! It's just i love some other games more! but still Cruelty Squad is fucking amazing and if you can get past the weird looks, you should 100% buy and play Cruelty Squad as it's almost unlike anything else! God what a game!!!
This was longer than i thought but eh i have a lot of love and enjoyment in this game so why not make it long!