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This is a rare and unique type of Guy, never before seen, possible the only one of its kind

the whole thing is. absurd but doesanyone wanna talk about the bit about toriel at the end there. the "scripted crit" that literally is only ever your own fault like you have to get that With Intention To Do something Fucked Up. im just thinking about that

“Video games are not allowed to have any negative emotions at all or i will explode.”

That’s a word blender if I ever saw one

literal shonen guy-whos-been-with-the-heroes-since-day-one-but-is-secretly-a-villian reveal speech

HAHAHAHAAHSHJXZKEKKDKSJVJDKCKDKDJSKD WHY IS THE STEAM COMMUNITY LIKE THIS LMAO

me when i'm playing Super Mario Bros (1985) and Evil Miyamoto puts princess toadstool in another castle, thus ruining my 4 level run

wh-

This "bad" review makes me want to check this game out.

I'm curious about what happened to make them think a death in a video game was abuse. Picture unrelated

*oh god flash backs to all Kanto remakes*

Also you just made an amazing game in general! Not finished it yet but it’s one I’m kicking myself for not playing sooner

How *dare* you?

I will ship that person grass to touch

Loss Aversion levels off the heckin CHARTS

“ what do you mean i have to die to be able to understand the game mechanics itself and follow the storyline ??? ヽ( `д´*)ノ it HAS TO be a perfect no death any% completion otherwise my life is RUINED “

Dude doesn't even want to play the game at that point. Imagine complaining about dying in a game where the mechanics revolve around dying?

They played blind on the recommendation of a friend who presumably did not predict this would happen

"I think was deliberate to punish me just outside the refund window" -- buddy, that's just called storytelling.

ah yes i too bought isat and insertdisc5 personally popped into the game and started emotionally abusing me

i think we might be in a slightly cursed timeline of people not understanding how to read the pitch of the games they're signing up for and then writing reviews acting as god (to the algorithms)

Oook I Will play your game

Does this guy know.....it's part of the plot...?? It's a timeloop game??? You're gonna fail a lot??? WHAT DID THEY EXPECT IT'S A TIMELOOP LITERALLY-

Scripted kidnapping right at the beginning of the game, no way to avoid Bowser kidnapping the princess.

Oh no! Feelings! 😂😂😂

He's pushing fifty, I'm sorry to say.

"toriel scripted crit" OH NO

How do I join the cronies? Asking for a friend.

“….their crony community call this 'a pivotal part of gameplay mechanics' and not what it actually is, a direct, coded betrayal of player trust.” Excuse you, we say both of those things.

I can't say my emotions didn't take a thorough beating, so emotionally abusive sounds about right bsky.app/profile/mask...

Having a sale implies that the sale will someday end, which induces FOMO, a well-known form of Feelings Terrorism.

Hell yes!!! Buying ASAP. Can’t wait to be emotionally abused by… a banana peel. Honestly though, it makes me wonder if they watched the trailer. This would be like someone upset they can’t beat Minit without experiencing character death.

Have it engraved on a bronze plaque

This is your "Edmund McMillan, you little fucker"

put it on a shirt, i'd buy it

Oh my god, do they need a glass of water and an ativan??

"Emotionally abusive" the time loop thing is pretty upfront and dying seems like a pretty natural part of that. Didn't you also have a pretty detailed content warning in the game too? People are strange.

Fellas, is emotionally abusive to make art?

..."Oh no, the video game wants me to experience feelings that may be relatable to how the protagonist is feeling!" And also the whole thing about dying feels like he's one of the guys who brags about going through games deathless. This is a video game, losing is part of learning how to win.

Ah. There it is. A take more childish than my "actually humans should be immortal because I had deaths in the family and i havent recovered since" one. How quaint. Anyways siffrin's first death is istantaneous at least?

Man wait until they get to Act 3.

I can’t understand. I can’t understand. I just can’t understand. Also the random undertale mention when Toriel’s death is… completely avoidable. In that case you just suck. I guess this review will be another stain on their profile considering there isn’t even an achievement for doing that

Because no game has a scripted death at the beginning! youtu.be/ToJv9GO5FGw?...

How dare you force us to *gulp* experience a story

I should really bump In Stars And Time way up the terrifying backlog; I'd need to experience it firsthand to form a tighter player hypothesis. The bit about achievements-as-undesirable-brands especially is bizarre. The opposite of old Gamerscore chasers?

They're playing Pac-Man at the arcade. They hit a ghost and die. The game over sound plays through the speaker for all to hear. "Wow, after it already took my money, wow." They turn around and start shouting at everyone else in the arcade. "I died in this game, this is emotional abuse!"

the amount of time!! they took to word and write this!! and yet no fully developed understanding of "failure/dying in games" ≠ "a representation of your skill"

somehow the achievement represents a failure and not... a progression of the story

i love how people use intentional writing decisions and reactions to them to call devs abusive they should go and watch bluey or sth

there is a certain type of extremely sheltered individual who believes they should never feel anything negative ever and works as hard as they can to inflict the buddha's upbringing on themselves

turn to them and say "YOU the player failed to save Siffrin! This is a YOUR fault!!!!" and got so mad at the game making fun of them that they didn't keep playing to find out if it actually. Did that.

How dare you utilize game mechanics as a part of the storytelling in your video game

who asked

if thats what i gotta do to get people to play.......... ill do it.................... 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞

This is hilarious except for the part where Steam counts any Negative review much more harshly than Positive ones. Imagine trying the demo before buying the full game

I was hoping you were going to say "there's a sequence break to bypass the forced death". That would've been the cherry on top.

im so sorry for forcing players to die in real life

Not every game is for everyone but they're making themselves seem like a victim of a horrible crime😂 it really isn't that serious dude, move on to another game and stop being mad that not every game is to your standard or taste ✨️

i keep thinking about this it’s such a distillation of where the culture is at and it makes my tummy hurt

exactly!!! be cringe be free be fun be silly smile #loveworld

It definitely helps when seeing these left of left field wacky takes out in the wild

facts. do whatever you want forever.

this is why we motherloving do this

sometimes games aren't meant for certain people but they will ignore all warning signs and then complain anyway, truly miracle /silly

Their review made me wanna check the game out rofl

It’s true you made me VERY sad when (spoilers) which is YOUR fault and I loved EVERY minute!!! Fucked up!!!

i just want to crack this person's head open and see what the hell is going on in there. it's probably that gif of a milk carton spilling over.

"... the dev just seems comfortable arbitrarily killing you with no recourse..." D- do they expect you to, like, stub your toe every time a Sif dies?

Fascinating little glimpses into extreme player archetypes and fringe reasons for play that beg to be studied. How much "better" could I get at playing if I took every single death as a personal, deeply humiliating, and ultimately avoidable event? Is this how no hit bullet hell sickos are born?!

no way to remove the achievement stain

we fans are so corny

I hope dev's keep abusing me tbh

LMAO?????

Also they'd hate me lol I've have Sif being smushed to death as my profile banner for like a year lol

no the correct way to play the game is to stop before you get to that point and now theyve failed at that and can never redo it

I just checked and since they left the review at 3.5 hours played, they've played another 3 hours. They must be enjoying it I guess or just absolutely seething the entire time, we may never know.

If Adrienne's spectacular writing has made you feel what you were clearly warned, you would feel you may not be entitled to financial compensation.

i think you watched me go on like 3 separate rants while reading absurdly slow through dormont and it took only like an hour or so to get to act 2 😭

Honestly how dare you include a moment where it goes badly for the main character which if avoided would change the story quite a bit. That's very evil and twisted. I can't believe you'd betray the player making them be in a timeloop in the timeloop game smh

they created an account specifically to tell me how much they hated the game so i can tell you it is NOT satire

"motherloving"

It’s called a tutorial lmao Seriously though, I’m sorry you had to read that.

So if I understood this correctly: they are mad that you are forced to die... in a game where dying is a game mechanic? That they think dying in a game is a proof of failure? And that forcing a player to "fail" is abusive? NGL I'm kinda curious what kind of an environment they were raised in now!🤔

your only takeaway from this could just be that you were compared to toby fox 😆

You did it. You did emotion crack so hard you got bro to rage-compare you to Toby Fox. Legit bro is afraid of emotions lol

accusing the pacing of being deliberate.... when they just read slow 😭

loop wrote this

I just like to believe this person read the trigger warnings and went “finally, the game for me”

That's...a take. I cannot imagine being that emotionally connected to the idea of not dying in a video game that scripted story events cause you to go off on a tirade because it "stains your record" lmao

Bought the game, can't wait to be emotionally abused by you 🙏

This is the sort of person who will pull out their cord when they're losing an online game rather than see the 'defeat' screen and then get mad when the game penalizes them for disconnecting. Deeply unwell behavior.

I mean I guess we now know what he would do

“Abusive Gamedev” WHAT IS THIS PERSON’S THOUGHT PROCESS GENUINELY