Slay the Spire 2 currently sitting at Mostly Negative.
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Review bomb a game because devs are making necessary balance changes in early access? Nah.
Review bomb a game because the devs gave one red cent to the OG feminist grifter? Fuck yes.
As much as I'd love for it to be because of the Anita Sarkeesian discovery, it's not. It's because the Chinese hate that a certain exploit got corrected or something.
Both are contributing to the review score, so take it as a win.
If you look at the breakdown of reviews it's still overwhelmingly the Chinese sperging out about the exploit.
Get them back behind the Great Firewall. We shouldn't have to put up with their cheating ways.
When two storm fronts of different temperatures collide, a tornado can occur.
When two cultures hate something for different reasons, a shit storm occurs.
Do you hear that, ThreeLights? It's the whispering winds of shit...
Soooo glad I didnt buy this fucking BS
Shame because the concept looked promising (I admit never heard of the first one before this game went viral)
SoS is one of the best games ever made. Even better with mods.
What mods do you recommend?
Just the top 2 ones; the one that adds a class and the one that adds like an entire new game/chapter.
Cool, thanks.
One of the few times the Chinese aren't completely subhuman.
This happens to every goofy indie game-of-the-moment that has kitschy writers from major gaming sites creating a circle jerk around it. They write crap about being totally obsessed with it, how it's the best game of the year, it's such a breath of fresh air, then people buy it and it turns out it actually has flaws, or it's not even out of early access and the devs make a decision to tweak a mechanic. The community gets all butthurt over it and half the gullible hipsters who bought it feel like they were lied to, or that it made liars out of their favorite game urinalists.
I saw, yesterday, that it turned out Anita 'My favourite game is Ms. Pac-Man' Sarkeeesian was involved with the development of this game and thought "Shit, review bombing and more articles about dems ebil goobergoters incoming".
But thankfully a game released, in early access, 2 months ago, last updated over 2 weeks ago has already had its fair share of negative reviews about mechanics and so anything negative associated with it from her involvement in it isn't central as to why people are unhappy with it.
Seems like a PR stunt to get some press and being able to blame perceived 'failures' as some sort of <Insert whichever isms and phobias are currently fashionable> for its decline within the greater gaming community.
That and I expect Anita will have some sort of book or product coming out soon and wants to generate some interest in selling whatever it is.
Weaksauce, another reason why AI is better than 'journalists' and any attempt to try and place this onto Gamergate is an attempt, by the press, the silence Chinese voices who don't have access to Discord or Reddit (Ultimately heavily moderated domains anyway) and yet have purchased the game and have things to say about it.
It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.
I have never tried to pay my bills with positive PR from fluff pieces, but I imagine it would get a good laugh out of my creditors if I tried. I look forward to seeing how well it works for them. I'm sure all of their employees prefer getting positive press coverage over getting a paycheck, so it should work out just fine.
Terrible game. STS1 with a bunch of mods is a much better experience
It basically WAS Slay The Spire 1, with a couple mods.
The Touhou overhaul of STS1 is a more complete STS2, as it stands.
have you tried the packmaster mod? it's a lot of fun
I loved the first one. What's so bad about the sequel?
Nothing. It's legitimately great. But it doesn't matter. You can't give money to Anita fucking Sarkeesian in 2026 and not expect massive blowback. These negative reviews were earned.
100%
Agreed. The co-op mode alone made it worth purchasing the day it was released in early access; friends and I had a lot of fun playing it. It's a good game. But not worth giving money to Anita Sarkeesian.
Well, it's largely the same as the first game. They added a couple of new characters which are okay, but they removed the watcher which was the most fun class in the first one.
They made a lot of the elite fights a lot harder, and in my opinion that makes the game less interesting because it encourages you to play it very safe (which was already the right thing to do in the first one normally, but in STS2 you just get extra punished for trying to do more elites)
They also severely nerfed the boss relics, most of them don't give extra energy and a lot of the time the three you get offered are next to useless. I'm not necessarily against making the game harder, but doing it in that particular way just makes one feel useless and it's a huge nerf to the more energy-hungry cards which are the cards I find most interesting.
On top of that, they crippled one of the most fun builds in STS1 which was defect orbs. Now you can only gain temporary focus (until the end of turn), never permanently, so you don't have the same scaling that defect used to have and it just feels horrible to play. In exchange they gave him another type of build which is status-based, it's actually quite fun but still.
Most importantly it just doesn't have the library of mods that the first game had, and it won't for many years if ever. I could see the game becoming good later down the line if they add the watcher back, fix some of the issues and mods get developed for it, but right now it's absolutely not worth it, the first game is in a much better state
OK, that makes sense, thank you!
Steam denied my refund request because I purchased the game more than 2 weeks ago before this went down. I hadn't installed it yet, and don't plan to now.
This is what I wrote in the refund ticket:
I got the simple "this is outside of the refund window" message. Oh well.
Same thing happened to me. Supported the game since I loved the first one so much. This was such a gut punch.
I never played it but I liked the first one and played it quite a bit.
Is it multiplayer or something? Why the hell does anyone care if the Chinese are exploiting it?
Update: the past three days are now being counted as "off-topic reviews," thereby not affecting the overall review score.