Posted on: September 17, 2021

BenMcLean

Jeux: 833 Avis: 11

Meh.

"SUPERHOT" demonstrates that Steam needs more than just a "Yes" and "No" to the question, "Do I recommend this game?" Somewhere inbetween the absolutes of "Yes" and "No" there is a third option, "Meh." SUPERHOT is amazingly cool for about 3-4 hours. Then you're kind of done. The endless challenge modes you can unlock aren't really all that satisfying. The developers shot themselves in the foot, and then in the leg several times and probably another few places as well by deciding during development to use a proprietary lighting engine which requires each level to be baked in a secret process which the community won't be able to duplicate, which means no user generated content. That was the dumbest decision I've ever heard of a game developer making since John Romero's Daikatana / Ion Storm debacle. Skyrim should have taught us that MODS SELL GAMES! SUPERHOT was absolutely the game which could have benefited most from user generated content ... and didn't. This lighting was completely frivolous and unnecessary. The prototype they released for their crowdfunding campaign didn't have this lighting and it looked fine! The gaming press praised it for it's simplistic visuals. There was no need to sacrifice such a fundamentally important feature for a minor aesthetic tweak that hardly anyone will even notice. Overall, that prototype was better in many ways than the final product. It's limitation of only pistols and melee as combat options actually made the gameplay feel strategic, while the shotgun you can't dodge and the necessity of using whatever weapon happens to be in front of you at the moment makes the full game of SUPERHOT feel more arcadey. Still, it's a pretty fun game for that initial 3-4 hours despite these problems. So I can still recommend, but in a more laid back "Meh" kind of way rather than with the full enthusiasm I felt when I backed SUPERHOT on kickstarter.

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Posted on: April 17, 2018

andrewlehman

Jeux: 341 Avis: 3

Okay, but overpriced

I own a copy of the game on Steam that was included in one of the Humble Bundle's. It's okay, but that's about all I can say. The campaign that it does include is very short, and can be completed in just a couple of hours. It has the potential to be something more interesting if there was simply more content to it. Definitely not worth the full price, and I'd wait for a deep sale before even considering it. If I could I'd give this a 2.5 star review. I don't think it deserves 2 stars, but it really doesn't deserve 3.

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Posted on: March 4, 2016

Arulus

Jeux: 286 Avis: 4

Waste of 2 hours

You pay 23 euros to play less than 2 hours. Game that is base on one cool time-effect, with no "graphics", no actual music and plot with more holes than you have bullets. No. Just no.

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Posted on: April 19, 2016

rhoelzl

Jeux: Avis: 11

Move Along, Nothing to See Here

SUPERHOT is little more than a proof-of-concept. The levels are tiny, usually one or two rooms with nooks and crannies. The game spawns enemies all around you in a somewhat random fashion, which then immediately start converging on you. You try to shoot them before they shoot you. That's all there is really. The claim that time only moves when you move, is a lie. It always advances, though slowly. This may not seem like a big problem, but you are basically always being shot at from some direction, and taking the time to look around means giving the bullets time to reach you. So how do you know where the enemies are? You often don't. As a result, there is no intelligent tactical way to play this game. It is just a big exercise in trial and error and hoping that you guessed correctly where the newest enemy has spawned. At least that's how it feels in the hard levels, of which there actually are very few; the vast majority is very easy. The plot is as pretentiously "meta" and "fourth wall breaking" as can be. The game has *massive* physics and clipping issues. Sometimes enemies shoot through walls. Often you try to shoot around a corner, but the bullet collides with the wall even though it shouldn't; in hard levels this typically results in death. Sometimes enemies accidentally pulverize their weapons when they walk too close to a wall. Thrown away weapons often somersault or glide around the floor absurdly. To summarize, the game does very little, and what it does, it does badly. There is simply no reason to play this, except maybe for the interesting visual design of both the game itself and the menus.

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Posted on: February 28, 2017

HaraDaya

Possesseur vérifié

Jeux: Avis: 11

Enemies' accuracy ruin the mechanic

The flow is unnatural, enemy shots lead you spot on every time if you aren't changing your direction whenever they fire. There's no dodging under a bullet. There's no leaning. It feels like you might as well be a pillar on tank treads. If your feet aren't planted on the ground, everything moves in real time. So no mid-air slow motion either. You're not really making use of the slow motion to stay alive, because there's no stray bullets in the air to watch out for. Every bullet is in the air to punish you if you aren't stopping on a dime every so often to change direction. I was hoping for something that could side with F.E.A.R. and Max Payne for fantastic slow motion action and movie-like shootouts. Instead I got the feeling I was just exploiting my character's lack of momentum. Playing the full game I can't shake the feeling that the devs seems to have spent all the time since their playable demo, on making killstragram; the cool terminal interface and all its' extras; and an interesting at best plot. Rather than expand on the gameplay we all got excited for in its' early stages. I think the game would've fared better had they just given us the levels and gameplay, but at half the price.

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