Can you imagine anything worse, in the realm of gaming, then playing as a pair of literal millennial girl writers? I expend a decent amount of effort actively avoiding the shit products of millennial girl boss authors. These are the exact people who have fucked fantasy and sci-fi to hell over the last 10+ years. Now they want me to skip right over their painfully terrible self-inserts to play as the actual retards themselves?
The game looks very technically competent. I'm sure the gameplay is fine. But I don't need to tolerate horrible characters, dialogue, and story in my video games. I'm not "missing out" by skipping this shit, same as I'm not missing out when I bypass games created by people who hate me. There are already more good games in existence than any one person could ever fully play. But even if this were the only game in the world, I'd rather quit the hobby than suffer through these characters and this writing.
Noticing the “Normie” YouTubers are getting wined and dined more now. All of them say Avowed was “Okay” and very few of them talked about the major PC problems like permanent game load crashes on saves and control file corruptions. All praise Monster Hunter Wilds! (except ignore the major PC issues.) And now this game comes out of left field like it wasn’t the sleeper hit of the century.
Nah this one has been on people's radar for a while: because their prison escape game had moments of great stuff, 10% of it was really cool co-op mechanics. Then their 'it takes two' game, took what worked and made it so 80% of the game was the stuff that worked well, all while there was a gaming drought. The aesthetic aside, it was a good game at the right time that was 40x better than their last. All while streaming of co-op games has seen an upsurge again. With that level of improvement, the next one was highly anticipated. Anyone who likes co-op like they specialise in was looking forward and hoping for something great from em.
I agree with the other crits that I've seen here, but this does have a pedigree, it was from a 'franchise' of co-op games that had been getting better and better and really delivered for a lot of people last time. It's not from nowhere