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This game, TBH, despite the fact that it was released in 2018, is way better than some stupid titles that came out up to 2024.

Just beat the second boss, I had to stop and write a review!

Me getting tired of waiting for something that remotely looks like SHADOW OF THE COLLOSUS and also plays like it. I was surprised it took me this long to learn about this game. This is how games should be done in VR!

I am not sure if I wanna edit this after finishing the game, but this game is recommended.

Okay there goes my 2 cents


in this game, you play as a businessman who goes to see the mayor, and as soon as he gets to the reception he is told to wait.
now while waiting for the mayor to finish what important meeting he was having, you as the businessman decided to see and explore around for a bit, and this is how we begin our adventure.

NOT A KID's GAME despite how it looks and plays.

the visual presentation of this game is top-notch
It starts with clips from the old days that make you feel happy even before starting the game. It was a good move from the developers using nostalgia in their favor.
you as the player wander in this little town from one place to another, you get to visit a garden, a farm, and a grocery store among other places.

whenever you visit a new place, suddenly people in distress ask you to do them a favor to solve the issue at hand.
Then you go wandering these beautifully crafted areas leading you from one location to another in a way you will enjoy.

the gameplay is simple, and you will definitely miss some interactions on your first play-through, and doing it all again is a thing you will gladly do especially if you're going for 100% achievements.

the auditory presentation Is on another level.

I am not a native English speaker, but I enjoyed the Yorkshire dialect a lot, something is always magical when you hear the word "taties" lol. the voice acting though was done with a few actors it's still great! I mean a woman is talking but you can tell it's a man who did the voice-over, which makes it even funnier.

another indie game that I am going to remember for a long time, it didn't invent anything or take the genre by storm but it's an experience worth having.


Arabic language review

اوك هذي اللعبه ما تنفع للأطفال كبداية فلا تجيبها لاخوك او ولدك بناء على شكلها.

هذي اللعبه الي مخليها تستاهل تقديمها سواء نظريا او صوتيا. اذا كنت تتكلم انقلش كويس وتحب اللهجات البريطانية راح تنبسط من الاداء الصوتي لهذي اللعبه, الجرافكس كذلك, معطي للعبة جو ممتاز ورايق, وبصراحة ما اعتقد كنت راح العبها لو ما جرافكسها كان كيوت وجذاب.

القيمبلاي يبدا فجأة مديرك في شركة وانت مندوب مبيعات يقلك روح لهذا المكان عشان نبغاك تزبطنا وتخليهم يشتروا منتجنا الخ, شغل يومي طبيعي لمندوب.
طبعا راح توصل للمكان المطلوب وفجاة يقولولك استنى الشخص الي تبغا تدخله عنده اجتماع, وانته مستني طبعا لك الخييار انك تسيبه وينفتح لك باب تخرج منه تتمشى وتشوف البلدة الصغيره هذي وتبدا هنا المغامره.

القيمبلاي جدا بسيط.

هذي البلدة فيها اماكن كثيرة زيها زي اي بلدة فيها محل يبيع بطاطس مقلية وجمبه محل سمك وخضار الخ, كل ما تدخل مكان حتلاقي هناك مصيبة, اصلا قبل لا تدخل الأماكن هذي مجرد ما تبدا اللعبه تلاقي واحد يده ناشبه في فتحة بلاعة!!! هههههاي ليش نشب يده ودخلها في هذي الفتحه اخليك تعرف لو جربت اللعبه, الزبدة ( او راح تحتاج زبدة ) الزبدة انك كل ما قابلت واحد راح تلاقيه في مصيبة ويقلك ساعدني, وانت تحاول تساعد ناس البلدة راح تكتشف اماكن متنوعه ورهيبه تضرب فيها كل شي عشان تسمع يقول كم سطر يضحكك لو الانجلش عندك كويس
هذي اللعبه تستاهل التجربخ والتروفيات حقتها سهله ك أضافة برضو.

yeah they overdid the graphics a bit, my 4060 can't FHD max the game and also my RX6700 can't ffs!
AAAAND it's free on epic store august 8th, I knew already, I did pay willing into this, but my overall experience is just MEH.
I am no expert of the genre but I am expert in gaming generally and this game look good but it ain't the full package, I'll wait for an update maybe or a refund.


I wish there is a neutral button, come on valve.


EDIT: so i did something funny.

i am still planing on refunding this game because i bought lossless scaling to get better fps but still this game is heavy on my modern GPU, and i even bought the PS5 version to compare and the result i found that is even on ps5 the fps tanks, but it's a better smoother experience overall.

this is previously a negative review now I am changing it to positive, because i enjoyed the game so much after understanding it, i even cleared it many times on all difficulties.


SO after spending hours playing epic version and ps5 version



On easy it's different game than on medium or hard. It's really stupid how you should play the game, this is what you have to do

Go to option 1-Enable player HUD (should be default) so you can understand game mechanics better while changing energy from shield to weapon.

2-Decrease ship speed to 1-3

3-Go to controls and enable auto-shot ( so much to deal with no need to add another button to worry about)

-Assign Auto shooting to one of the d-pad ( up )

-Assign missiles to d-pad (down) this is for when shooting ground enemies pressing (down)will shoot missiles on them, won't work with default( L3 )it will only enable Lock-on or disable it.

4-Start on easy and never use homing missiles because it consumes energy resources which are used for upgrades. just collect enemies drops to buy upgrades after finishing a level.

-Different upgrades will available after each level.

-Don't buy different shooting patterns, stick with the default for now.

-Focus on buying extra turrets first and then upgrade everything except the extra patterns and raygun + shield upgrade i forgot what it's called but not important, keep them for last, even then you won't need/use them.

So after all this tweaking and upgrading assuming you finished the story on easy, now the game start on medium with all your upgrades, now you will have to use homing missiles for basically all large enemies on screen

1-auto-shoot

-2 enemies die collect their drop

3- manage your energy to keep the weapon energy almost always full as well as your shield, so that you can keep them missiles coming.

Now let's say you cleared the game on medium difficulty, start on hard this game actually fun after all this micromanaging.

I refuseed to give up on this game, i needed to understand it better and spend more time testing and experimenting.

Tbh, devs ♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game with how complicated it is and even without much explaining, aside from stupid short videos on steam at launch.

Devs have to address this huge issue with this game.

this game from the look of it, u can never imagine it could be taxing on any GPU, even the devs recommended 1650 gtx or something, but what actually happening in the game is not acceptable at all.

RN playing lies of P at 80fps 1440p, But rerunner can't maintain 60fps on first boss.

I have a rtx 4060 + 13700 CPU. On the first boss my gpu usage is 100%, frames dips to low 50s and even lower, bruh what is this. Please fix this so i can get back and enjoy the rest of this beautiful game.

avoid at all cost.. stops randomly while rendering and can never get anything done.

minit is a game trying to do something that looks different but it isn't.

the core mechanic of this game is that u only have a minit to play and then u die but, u get to keep your discoveries and items, quests given to u by NPC's and ur progression.
so, in other words, this game enforces roguelite mechanics and I actually find it interesting while I still hate the genre.

I played minit along with other games that are solely made with two or three colors maximum. while I'm someone who loves colors and wants to play more and more colorful games, because I think they add life to games, I always wanted to experience monochromatic sorta games.

minit is a fun game to play, the monochromatic tune makes the game visually distinct but not unique, despite saying that this remains a great pixel art game.

the music is nothing to write home about it just.... fits.

what makes this game shines is the gameplay and personally this is one of the important aspects of a game if not the most important one, I mean what's a game if it looks good but plays bad right?

the way this game gives u only one minit to explore a small yet vast world inside of this little game is smart,
I got hooked instantly, the first quest is easy enough to make u feel like "okay this is a short and easy game so I'll beat it quickly" and boy u'll be wrong.

this game reminds me of metroid and zelda, most of the times u have no idea what to do, no sens of directions so u get to keep on exploring trying to find what to do next. U have control over this whole minit, u can reset and start again anytime u want and after beating this game the new game plus mode was another surprise to me.

but i wont spoil it for u, it has to be earned. I still need to beat the new game plus though it's even vaguer than the normal mode and for a cheap price this game offered me so much that it's steel.


This game is short but to get everything it will be much much longer.
Totally recommended <3.



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لعبة مينيت من اسمها ( دقيقة ) انتا كل الي معاك تلعبها لمدةة 60 ثانيه بعد تموت بسبب لعنة

هذي اللعبه تحاول تكون حاجه ثانيه بس ماحسيتها قدرت توصل لهذا الشي
يعني تحسها روج-لايت بس مو لايق عليها بس من ناحية القيمبلاي زابط كيف ما اعرف ممكن سحر.

اللعبه هذي تختيم تروح تدور يمين يسار وحتضيع كثير بسبب تصمميم اللعبه الي ياخذ من ميترود وزيلدا
وهذا شي كويس صراحة, ولكن بعد الدقيقة هذي ما تمر حتموت, وكل الي جمعته يبقى معاك ما يروح سواء كنت في نص كويست
او الفلوس الي جمعتها او حتى الادوات الي تلاقيها كلها تبقى

من رأيي هذي اللعبه ك باكج جميله والي خلاني العبها انو ناوي اسوي فيديو عن العاب بس بلونين او ثلاثه ك اقصى حد,
وماكنت عارف ايش حلاقي من تجارب وكانت وحده من هذي التجارب لعبة مينيت.
وكانت تجربة حلوه ومن مصممين قد لعبت لهم لعبه قبل كذا بس ما القيت لهم اهتمام ولكن الان راح اصير مترقب الجديد منهم.

تختيم اللعبه جميل راح تنبسط وانتا تلعبها بالرغم من الغموض الي فيها, وبعد التختيم راح يطلع لك طور التختيم الجديد الاضافي وراح يكون اصعب
وتحدي زيادة معناه متعه زياده صح؟؟

نصيحتي اللعبه تستاهل التجربه.

ok, this might say 3 hours of playtime, but I already have 50 hours of this awesomeness on ps5.

1- the game started stuttery but with some graphics settings tweaking here and there I managed to play on 2k high settings, and medium ray tracing and didn't notice any more stuttering beating 2nd boss.

2-the huge amount of optimizations here is astonishing, they gave us everything, well almost everything given that many ppl complain about the stutter, but it wasn't a problem to me personally and this is coming from someone with zero tolerance for stutter and UE4 shinanigans. Plus, playing with ps5 controller with adaptive triggers is just icing on the cake.

3- Housemarque studio has a brilliant and wonderful staff, they always come up with games that u can play over and over without feeling bored or that there is nothing else to do here!! no, u absolutely getting your money's worth from their titles.



having played Ultra stardust, Resogun(ps4 launch title) Nex Machina and Returnal, I can say they just improve upon everything design wise starting from making small indie titles such as stardust and alienation to something big like Returnal and ended up being a 1st party sony studio.

as a pc gamer u can play resogun\ultra stardust and alienation using rpcs3 and nex machina on steam I promise those people make games with tight, fun and challenging gameplay.


I will be updating this after getting all the achievements, gotta go shoot sommore.

EDIT

like i said i will be updating after playing more of this game and now that i have finished it with 100% achievements, it's time to review the game properly.



So these are my thoughts regarding the game.
I am a guy who doesn't love playing roguelike\lite of any sort, and with no intentions whatsoever to delve into the genre, but because this game was designed by HOUSEMARQUE studio I just had to try it out and see how they implemented their DNA into a first-person shooter game with roguelike elements.

And boy o boy did they nail it!!


Firstly, based on the trailers, u'll be expecting to unravel a story and stop the cycle by simply playing and finishing the game. But then u realize that the devs won't be explaining the story to u and that u will have to put clues together yourself to understand and interpret the story.
which is something u'll eventually be going to appreciate.


Secondly, the GAMEPLAY ! Is surprisingly superb.
The game by no means is easy, and it's not that difficult once u understand how to approach it.
Dying in this game is necessary to advance the story, so don't be discouraged by deaths.
Keep playing, get better and if u find it so hard to get past some bosses or stages look up a guide it's not a big deal really.

The wide variety of weapons and how each one of them is unique opens up ways for u to experience the game in a way that suits your play style, offensive or defensive, it's all there.

I have always considered rogue likes are waste of time and I still do. That's why I stayed away from them, and probably won't be playing more roguelikes after Returnal. It's simply not my cup of tea. But dying and respawning every time in Returnal u'll be like "okay one more go" and it's very satisfying don't get me wrong, but I hate it when games do this to me lol.
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Finally.
studio Housemarque did a great job making and perfecting bullet-hell games, starting from stardust to Returnal. Really, they have come a long way and deserve to be one of Sony's first party studios.

Returnal took lots of inspiration from housemarque's previous games
like Resogun and especially Nex machina and mixed it up with the large budget from sony to make a much finer in all aspects game.

9\10 game due to the presence of not that problematic stutter, and I 100% recommend buying this game full price.


بغض النظر عن عدد ساعاات اللعب على ستيم انا لاعبها كثثثير على السوني 5

اللعبه الوحيده الي بسببها مازلت العب على سوني 5 والان بعد نزولها على ستيم الظاهر انو الوداع للسووني

هذي اللعبه مبدئيا فيها مشاكل بسيطه من ناحية الجرافكس حسب كلام الناس لكن انا ما واجهت مشاكل والحمد لله


اللعبه تعتبر بورت من الكونسول جايتنا على البي سي وفيها كمية تعديلات وتزبيط ودلع مو طبيعي ولو عندك يد سوني 5 التجربه تكون افضل وافضل بس مو ضروري-

اللعبه هذي جايه من استويدو بدا ك استويدو مستقل وحبه حبه كبر ب ابداعه الين ما صار استوديو من استوديوهات سوني -
عندو العاب اسطوريه على الوسن 4 زي ريزوقن وكثير على السوني 3 والسوني المحمول


انا عمري ما فكرت انو ممكن العب لعبه من نوع الروجلايك الي لمن تموت ترجع من البدايه وتكون صعبه لاني اعتبرها ضياع وقت لكن مع هذي اللعبه
اتغير رأيي في الجانرا كلها وهذا ان دل, دل على انو اللعبه مره قوية
انا مو من عشان التطبيل لشركه معينه ولا حصريه معين لكن هذي اللعبه لازم اكثر القيمرز يجربوها.


هذا انطباعي المدبئي بس بعد ما اجيب كل الاتشيفمنت راح احدث المراجعه


تحديث بعد تختيم اللعبه

قصة اللعبه من نوع القصص الغامضه الي لا تتوقع انك حتعرف ايش صاير مجرد لعبك وتختيمك لها.

اللعبه ماهي متصممه زي انشارتيد او اساسن كريد,, لا وانتا يبغالك تحلل وتفكر

ايش يعني هذا الشي وايش ممكن يتفسر هذاك الشي.

بالنسبة ليه انبسطت في تحليل نهاية وقصة اللعبه وتقدر تبحث عن نظريات واراء الناس عنها

تحس انك تستمع اكثر واكثر.


ثانيا: القيمبلاي حق اللعبه.

اللعبه هذي كثير ناس بيحسسوك انها دارك سولز الشوتر ولكن في الحقيقه لا, هيا ماهي سهله ولا هي مستحيله
لكنها تصير لعبه متوسطه الصعوبه لمن تفهما وكيف تلعبها صح.

كمية الاسلحه الي فيها وتنوعها يخلي عندك الخيار انك تلعبها بالأسلوب الي يعجبك سواء اسلوب دفاعي او هجومي زي ما تحب.
وبداية تعلم حبه حبه وخليك دفاعي بس لازم تتحرك كثير وما تقعد في نفس المكان ولا حتموت.
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بصراحه هذا النوع من الالعاب الي تموت وترجع من البداية مره مو جوي, مع اني مره انبسطت من هذي اللعبه
وما جربتها الا عشان اني اقدر الاستوديو الي صنعها ولا خيب ظني ابدا في 90% من العابه.

وما ظنتي العب حاجات روق لايك بعد كذا, اكره لمن احس اني مدمن لعبه ولا احب
احس انو الالعاب تتحكم بوقتي,, المشكله مني انا عارف بس برضو
راشد الماجد قال: ابعد عن الشر ياعمري وغنيله


اخيرا..

هذا الاستوديو فعلا بدع وقدم لعبه جباره وبسببها استحق انو يكون من استوديوهات سوني الاساسيه,

واللعبه واضح فيها افكار كثيرة مستوحاه من العاب الاستوديو القديمه

زي ريزوقن و نيكس ماكينا وكل اللعبتين حلوين وممتازين ويستاهلو ينلعبوا وموجودة نيكس ماكينا على البي سي بس اللعبه صعبه
جرب حظك معاها..

وفي النهاية انا انصح بكل ما اوتيت من قوة في هذي اللعبه تلعبها اليوم قبل بكره وتشيك على العاب الاستوديو الثانيه

حتنبسط وبس شكرا لقرائتك مراجعتي لو عجبتك المراجعه شيك البروفايل حقي وقناتي في البروفايل تشرفني.

I don't regret selling my ps5 for a GPU a year ago.

100% recommended
a game coming from a well-known studio.
My first time with the game was back in 2019 on apple arcade I had a blast playing it on a mini iPad, it was a great and fun aand a short experience.

music is well suited for the game and it's free for anyone who desires to get the OST.
graphics is not out of this world but as it's coming from amanita it's just going to be unique.
the gameplay is point and click and got nothing to do with card games as u may think from watching the trailer, and it's fun that's the only important thing to know.

can't wait for Phonopolis.


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بالعربي

لعبه تخلصها في ساعه, لعبه منتازه بالرغم من انها قصيره تقدر تعيد لعبها اكثر من مره لو تبغا كل الاتشيفمنت ف ممكن توصل معاك ل 2 او 3 ساعات.

اللعبه ميوزكها رايق وجرافكسها ب توقيع الاستوديو المعروف الي صحيح انو ما يسوي جرافكس يقارن بالشركات الكبيره او حتى استوديوهات اخرى, ولكن له طابعه الخاص واعماله الفنيه جدا مميزه ومتميزه.

القيمبلاي من نوع اشر و اضغط او بوينت اند كليك وحلو ماعليه كلام
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اللعبه رخيصه ولو عجتك ستايلها شيك على باقيي العاب الاستوديو خصوصا اللعبه القادمه فونوبوليس!

PHEW!! that was a hell of a journey.

I'll be as concise as I can be.

my whole review\opinions

the game started vaguely and u know nothing in a huge world but it doesn't overwhelm you
cuz the game is being unraveled at an acceptable pace.

the main characters of this game are small creatures that only u as the player can decide if they're cute or not, I at many points in this game remembered Pikmin and Patapon for some reason.

by no means I'm stupid but after beating the game I still don't understand what is going on or the whole plot in this game although I enjoyed playing the game.

this game is a semi-open world with some survival-ish elements, and me with zero interest in both of the categories of the survival+open world I 80% enjoyed the game, but by the 13th hour or so into the story I felt I just wanna see the end of this game and I can't say I liked the ending as it didn't explain much of what is going on.

the mechanics and how u should manage your herd \family felt lacking they might die if u didn't pay much attention which is something again I'm not interested in, i really don't like managing games.

All in all

this game is amazing, kept me intrigued all the way through to know what's next.

outta nowhere this game appeared on my radar and I am happy I bought it and played it from start to finish in just one week!! this rarely happens nowadays given that games recently come out devoid of any innovation or any out-of-the-box ideas.

this game is not perfect but it's one of a kind experience and I 100% recommend it.



finally
I just wanna say now I have another studio's worth of games to play through the rest of the year, i know i'am late to get to know this studio but better later than never right?


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بالعربي

لعبة الاسطوانه الازليه

لعبه قصتها غامضه جدا من بدايتها لين نهايتها بس تبان معاك حبه حبه بعض الاحداث وانتا ماشي في تختيمك للعبه.

اللعبه تعتبر نوعا ما عالم مفتوح و تقريبا سرفافيل ومع انها من اكبر العوالم المفتوحه في اي لعبه شفتها الا انه ينفتح لك على الهادي حبه حبه عشان ما ترتبك وتبطل تكملها! امزح.

الشخصيات الي في اللعبه حسب رأيك الشخصي يا تعتبرهم كيوت او تعتبرهم خلاف ذلك شي راجع لذوقك الشخصي

اللعبه فيها ميكانك غريبه بس تتعود عليها مع الوقت, وعشان تتقدم لازم تتعلم كيف تغير شخصيتك وقوتها عشان تناسب البيئه الي انتا تكون متواجد فيها
وفيها بعص الالغاز ومواجهه زعماء صحيح قليل وما يجيو الا في الاخر بس برضو كان شي حلو وجودهم وتنبسط ب مقاتلتهم.


نهاية المراجعه البسطيه هذي. اللعبه هذي مو اسطوريه وكلنها قريبه من انها تكون اسطوريه
ما اعرف حسيت نهايتها ما وضحت وشرحت كثير من غموض اللعبه مع ذلك استمتعت بالرحله لحد النهايه وكانت تجربه ما اعتقد ح انسها ما حييت ك لاعب


انا ما احب هذا النوع من الالعاب لا سرفايفل ولا عالم مفتوح بس بشكل خاص
هذي اللعبه تفتن بجمالها وغرابتها, انا اصحبت ابحث عن العاب غريبه عجيبه عشان ترجع وتولع حب الالعاب في داخلي مره ثانيه لانو بصراحه وكلكم شايفين
قد ايش الالعاب صارت تشبه بعض ولا فيها حاجات تميزها عن الباقين ولا تخلوني اتكلم عن العاب الاونلاين.


اخر حاجه اقولها
انا مهتم بصراحه ب اكتشاف الاستوديوهات الاندي القدميه الى عندها تاريخ حافل من الالعاب الجميله ذات الطابع المختلف والتقييم العالي,
وانا سعيد لاكتشافي .استوديو ايس تيم
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صحيح متأخر بس دايما انا اقول ان تصل متأخر خير لك من الا تصل!! يليت بس بصمة الدوام تعرف قيمه الجمله هذي.