@@worldstarmb If I remember correctly the original idea sounded absolutely brilliant - you could basically evolve a mutant on the fly to create a fully tailored mutant with bespoke powers. What we got, again if I remember correctly, was points in "punchy punchy" or "shooty shooty". I still played about 8 hours or so, it, was... ok
It’s proof not every game needs to be an open world or have weird rpg elements in it. Biomutant would’ve been better if it was like a ratchet and clank linear style smaller levels , a more focused non rpg game.
We've already played ratchet and clank as well as copies they shouldn't have done that, they should have taken longer to develop it and fully flesh out everything
The open world and the looting/crafting are literally the ONLY parts that (Sort of) work! Linear levels won't fix bad combat, bad story and boring characters, or awkward progression and meaningless skill unlocks. In fact, a linear Rachet and Clank-style game practically DEMANDS tight combat and carefully escalated challenge, balanced with new weapons or abilities that are both effective and fun to use. What part of this game suggests anyone involved could pull THAT off? Though I absolutely agree that the game needed more focus. Cutting the slap-dash faction and morality systems would've been a good start. This one might've worked better as an open world survival/craft-em-up, with minimal story, fewer NPCs and formal quests, and more open-ended gameplay in general. Although, Survival/crafting usually implies some level of base-building, and if those mechanics got the same level of polish everything else did, well...they probably shouldn't try to add anything MORE to this mess. But the colorful kung-fu animal post-apocalypse, the weapon and armor crafting, and the idea of being a little racoon-mutant loot goblin... all that stuff had potential. Once I got past the painfully slow tutorial and story set-up, when they finally took the rails off and let me do whatever I wanted, I had a reasonably good time. Just exploring ruins and slapping together ridiculous weapons out of random junk I found. The "zones" or bosses you need special gear or vehicles for weren't a bad idea, but it sucks that once you got the suit for one, the quests for all the others played out more or less the same. It would've been better if you just had to scavenge and craft items until you made something with sufficient resistances. Or if the parts and blueprints for the vehicles were scattered all over the map, instead of being tied to a single fetch quest from a designated quest giver. Basically, I think the game needed more focus mechanically (Just do a couple of things that you know you can do reasonably well, scale back on that ambition) and LESS focus narratively (Didn't need a story, and the attempts to graft one on are clumsy as hell.) Just let me run around being a mutant rat Mad Max, looting the remnants of the old world to fight the goofy-ass monsters of the new one.
I'd say either go with what you said, or focus on a tighter, more linear story-driven experience. Or, better yet, both. I remember finding the intro up until the end of encountering your old home to be the most engaging part of the game. The moment it shifted to broad open world, the amount of raw filler became... painfully obvious.
I was so hyped for this thing, playing as a mutant rat in a post-apocalypse overtaken by nature? sign me up! But with the clashing tone of kiddy vs gritty, comic word effects vs the "realistic"artstyle, simplistic angel/demon on your shoulder choices & the narrator "translating" the critterfolk language yet still uses words like "mooma & poopsy" , (just say mom & dad what are you doing!) it just kept piling up. & you describing it as a:"story driven game without the story" summes it up pretty well. Great vid man, keap it up
yeah this overly childlish infantilizing language is the biggest thing making everything else super lame and frustrating not that some things like the elvis guy atleast not being nowhere near what everyone else i suppose to look like and that makes it very uncohesive but the hyperrealistic overall look of other creatures could work if it wasnt paired with such infantilizing language.
3:08 'I know this might sound like a nit-pick' no no, that's actually fucking agregious. Even as you were explaining it beat for beat I was struggling to figure out what the fuck I was looking at. I'm 3 minutes into this video and I'm already frustrated - how would this NOT get spotted by QA testers??? or even the devs trying to play their own game????
Literally like professionals made this? And it got past QA? And development? And the game testers? And literally anyone who played the first 3 minutes of the game???
You are failing to understand how it works. There's not a single bug you found that QA didn't find. Not even one. No matter how hard you try, you didn't ever do that, not even once. By a game's release the bug database will have hundreds maybe even thousands of bugs in various states of unresolved limbo. QA knows. The bug was reported, and the dev team decided not to fix it. No other possibility exists.
@@AllfatherBlack You're right, of course - I can't figure out if that makes it worse or better. I can't imagine thinking it isn't a big deal, but it had to have been knocked down a priority list at some point over other things. I wonder if that means there were even worse issues that were more pressing, or if it means that the dev team genuinely thought it was readable
Hi, I have worked in video game QA, and I can tell you with certainty: they did see it. But the devs likely didn't bother to fix it. Visual bugs like that are typically low priority, whereas things like crashing and soft locks are low priority. The closer a game gets to launch date, the now bugs get flagged as "won't fix" by the devs. As for why they never patched it post launch, beats the hell outta me.
The even more pointless thing about the "Morality" system is that it's super easy to cheat. Aside from the prisoner rescue stuff, you get "good" and "evil" points when you capture small animals with your net, and can either "Pet" them, or kill them. I simply maxed out my "Good" points through normal gameplay, by just choosing NOT to be a dick for no reason. Once I'd unlocked all the "Good" powers, I then caught and killed a bunch of small animals to get all the "Evil" ones. And then turned my "Aura" back to "Good" using the same method (Catching and petting them instead). I retained access to both sets of powers afterwards, meaning there was literally no downside to doing this. Well, other than time wasted...and that the fact that almost none of the powers were worth it. That's not a "half-baked" system, that's just straight up RAW.
I was having a lot of fun with this game. Learned pretty quickly that it was mid, but the design was charming, and it was stylized in some ways. I got it for free and I was bored. The RPG level-up system was where my interest lied. Basically, I crunched the numbers and realized I could be absolutely broken in terms of DPS by just putting all of my points into luck. Played for about 10-15 hours, putting every. single. level-up into my luck stat. Then I decided it was time to dive into the armor creation system. I had avoided it because it looked fucking stupid, just attaching a rivet to my shoulder jutting out perpendicular to my body, but hey, Some of the armor upgrades let me boost my luck. That's my whole prerogative. Tried adding a piece of luck-boosting armor to my outfit. Reset my luck stat to what it was at level one. Stayed gone when I took it off. Uninstalled the game right then and there.
Been thinking about this comment I left here a while back. Really drives home how important Focus is to game development. I was able to put up with so much 🐂 💩 to play this game. And, like, it was downright enjoyable at times! I don’t think there’s any version of this game that was **good** but people absolutely die by bad games all the time. Fallout New Vegas barely runs, even after patches and everything, but it knew what it wanted to be and really locked in on that vision. Bio mutant could have been a cult classic if they just cut back like 80% and made it more of a dungeon crawler with a passable-enough story and cut out all the sub-systems. No classes, let the players level up an attribute every level, and let them unlock new abilities based on their attributes every other level. Rewarding me putting everything into luck by making my ultimate give everyone around me random effects in the spirit of d&d wild magic would have been such a fantastic reward for engaging in the game
@@Banilla468I was gonna say! It was probably because your new armor didn’t have all the fancy doodads your old armor did, so once you moved them over it would rock! I’m glad you enjoyed the game too, it was an extremely 🤷♀️ game that I’m glad I played lol.
I wish they'd finished it. Also it needs to be said that THQ had Experiment 101 rush the shit outta this game and it missed a lot of its promised content as a result.
But it was also the devolpers fault because Bio Mutant was never meant to be that "big" and open world. Thats really sad if they had more time or experienced staff they could have made a new bazo kazooie.
@@HL3AlcAida I keep holding out that the E101 guys would make an unofficial patch for it but I'm pretty sure THQ Nordic killed the team and parted them out to work on other games.
I kinda wish someone would take another crack at some of these ideas, 'cause they had potential. Not that "Narrator does all the dialogue" bit, though. Whoever suggested that shit shoulda gotten a long, silent side-eye from the team, and never brought it up again.
Wait, let's not change the past here. I remember seeing this game on my first Gamescom and not entering the queue, because you know, 3 hour queue for 20 minutes of gameplay. But the next time I saw it was THREE years later on the GAMESCOM. And the friends that played it the first time there, told me it was the exact demo, just with 5 minutes more for the character creation. This game was an issue for the publisher AND the developer. If someone told me "hey my game is so far in development, that we are confident we can let some people play it." And then don't finish it in 3 years I would push too. Btw bio mutant released 2 years later, after I played it on gamescom. So from first playable to actual release we have 5 years.
I got this for $7 and still had buyers remorse. It felt like a car trunk stuffed with ideas that were popular at the time. Insignificant choices trying to be an old Bioware game. Gunplay as Ratchet and Clank were making a comeback. RPG open world mechanics like Elders Scrolls. The conquering bases felt it resembled Ghost of Tsushima taking back towns from Mongols. Crafting from survival open world like Fallout. Four major fights that serve as the ultimate goal, wooo, wonder where I heard that one. Not that these ideas are bad and you're allowed to use things that worked before, but it causes a lack of focus in design. Another very notorious example of this is Duke Nukem Forever. No idenity, too many cooks in the kitchen taking off of ideas popular at the time. Only difference is that Biomutant couldn't cook where Duke hit world record of development time and burned the kitchen.
Me too. I mean, I took the option to skip the rest of the Tribal Faction nonsense, but I fully explored the map, did all the side quests, got all the vehicles/mounts, did all the stupid music puzzles, etc. It lets you make a giant sword out of a piano, and it goes "Plonk!" whenever you hit someone. That's gotta count for something.
The game has a lot of “soul” in that it has a very stylistic and unique approach to the art direction and gameplay and story and world but it just didn’t come together as a good gameplay experience. It felt like it should have been fun but it just kinda wasn’t as awesome as I hoped.
You can like what you want and a 6 or 7 out of 10 can still be just fine. People make more money to trash than to praise. The game is fine. Not good. Not bad. Just fine. I mean christ... we're whining about the aesthetic of the damn ui now...
I literally stopped in my tracks when you said the sound came from the controller 😮?! Like are you kidding me?! Someone made that decision, other people agreed with it, and then someone coded it in, and...and they released it into the wild . Holy shit!
You like balans wonderland, and released that ug picture into the wild. I literally stopped in my tracks that you had the audacity to talk about anything negatively looking the way you do 😂. You can take dumb poses all you want, the end result will always be: 🐷🐖🤓🐽 lmao
I was watching one of my friends on Twitch play. He asked me if I had played it yet. I said yes. He asked me how I liked it. I said that I didn’t really like it and that it wasn’t my type of game. He told me “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” How does one not know what they’re talking about when saying they didn’t like something and that’s it?
I just wish they had leaned into any one thing instead of just kinda going halfway with everything. The narrator is supposed to make this feel like a documentary but they never actually play around with that. As you said the creatures all look like cheap plushes so why didn’t they lean into it and have the weapons and environment look like toys and plush blankets or pillows. There are so many directions this could be taken in but everything is so one note and benign, the problem is though to take it in any direction you just have to axe other parts but it’s certainly preferable to having no real style.
Biomutant was a lot of fun for me!* *When I wasn't playing the storyline and was instead just running around in the world. I've told multiple people I really enjoyed about half of my time with this game.
I saw advertisements for this game on steam when it first came out then completely forgot about its existence until the algorithm sent this video my way
Started playing this game in Early Access and it had a very distinct "unfinished vibe". Clearly that never went away and you articulate very well the flaws and issues. Also it seems you found your viral hit recipe- longform deep dive reviews on obscure games everyone wanted to play but no one really finished. At least that's why I clicked on it - I have biomutant on my steam account and I've had it for YEARS and I've always said I'll pick it back up but never did. Thankfully this video is saving me the time. Also, you might find more things to review on steam since consoles have less games so they all individually get more attention in general. Please keep up the good work this was really good!
I remember the trailers making the game look so exciting. and then when i finally got my hands on it. it went "is this a soulslike?" i got like half way done with the war-band shit and was like "uh?"
By no means do I think Biomutant is exceptional (in fact, the story was genuinely as simple as it gets) but it strangely gave me a rare feeling of wanting to get to the end of my long work days to dive back in for hours upon hours. Everything you've critiqued is very much accurate, that much is clear to me but it still holds a special place in my heart, if for no other reason than it being a pleasant distraction from one of the most unpleasant times in recent memory.
@@dootmarine1140 I'm the kinda guy who gravitates to underdog releases; be it games or otherwise. There's something so captivating to me about giving games that most don't give a 2nd thought to a chance and I'll be real, they always end up being far more memorable to me than even the most polished critical darlings available.
I seem to remember that their way of developing was something like: Monday, get an idea. Tuesday-thursday, develop a demo of the idea. Friday, test the idea. And then if idea was good, they'd implement it into the game. It explains why there's so much contradicting concepts and mechanics all overlapping.
I like it too but….yeah let’s be real this game objectively is janky, clunky, broken, and ultra mid. This game needs to be cooked more before it got released. But subjectively to me 7/10
Honestly that's fine. I'm glad you had fun with it. Just because we criticize a video game doesn't mean we criticize the people playing it, and I wouldn't want anyone to not have fun with something I happened to not have fun with.
Guns were completely overpowered during the games release. I think they nerfed them eventually, but I still believe they are overpowered simply because they have infinite ammo.
They nerfed them? I’m still playing this game( almost done with it) and the guns are best weapons to use in the game, the melee attacks sucks until you get to the third of the game where you have the best stats with it( and even then their not as good as the gun unless you do the whole juggling attacks when you parry them but I don’t use that as much as before) and the Ki powers are 💩. The only good ones are the ones you transverse with( the mushroom and the levitation) maybe because my specialty is with dead eye and not the others ones but still the guns are op. They ether are lying or they got rid 1% of the damage you would usually have before the nerf.
The alignment system is what made this game one of the only games I've asked to refund a game on steam. It was so shallow and after the first main choice outside of the tutorial it showed it was gonna continue. Good review, thanks for the breakdown and retrospective.
The game looks absolutely unpleasing, the characters seem to be aiming to have a stylized look but all environment and graphics are like those Ocarina of Time remakes on unreal with the abuse of blur, rimlight, reflections, etc, everything looks like plastic and smudgy because it's so reflective, the lightning looks so unfitting most time with some places looking too dark or too bright probably due to the day and night system, the UIs are trying to have a comic book vibe which doesn't fit the banjo vibe of the game and fails on itself by not looking like a comic at all during the dialogue boxes.
Yeah, got the game on PS plus, but not even gonna bother for free. I value my time more and more against these mediocre games nowadays. Ubisoft is the biggest culprit of mediocre games
They made some wonderful character designs and settings. It is apocalyptic but still has a cozy charm to it. I forgot about it until I heard it was coming to switch recently.. still decided against it the second time around.
I was so upset with it. It was like a hate beat for me. Just had to finish it cause I got it at full price. The gameplay was okay but I just had no love for the story or the locations.
I had to double check your sub count, because I thought I was watching a channel with a much higher count. You're really good dude, and massively underrated. Subbed!
If the game was good, people would be able to say why. It's so obvious that the game is either unfinished or poorly done, everything they may have put passion into is drowned out by the lack of polish or barebones content. Kids may not have been the intended audience, but they are the easiest demographic to pander to for the least effort, and you can scrape together something for kids very easily when your initial idea doesn't look like it'll work out. They likely ran out of time and had to wrap things up and ship the game, and had to settle for poor optimization, black-and-white morality, one single voice actor, stilted cutscenes, mid combat, tell-don't-show story, the ending, etc. Probably would have been better served by limiting the scope of the game, focusing on doing a few things right, and optimizing what matters most instead of having so much left in the state they did, but that describes every poorly received AAA release too.
I agree, scope creep was such a huge factor into why so much of the game feels half-baked. Not uncommon but still sad to see, because some features and ideas had potential
Sadly Kena never released physical :( At forst i thougt it would be an adventure but it was Darksouls Pixar edition ^^ I hope the devs will do a second game
They straight up defrauded their audience. The biggest selling point to the game was being a "mutant" having the ability to visibly mutate changing stats throughout the game becoming a creature of your own design, grow wings, grow combat claws ect. this is what they pitched to everyone, very shortly before release they scrapped this and were extremely quiet about it. Now its just a game with cool art design and no creativity to be found beyond that. Every town you capture feels exactly the same, good and evil dont matter, the classes are all heavily unbalanced no system in the game feels complete. Some money man came in late in development and rushed production and absolutely ruined this game which had genuine potential, would be my assumption.
I remember playing this game doing everything I can and to be honest the story made no sense. Why are we wasting going around the world to do things when your main story is about capturing some guy out of vengeance in the end? They just threw everything in that game. Thay is pretty much it.
th guns have infinite ammo. you can literally just shoot the enemy until it’s dead. all you have to do is avoid being hit. there’s no reason to even have a melee weapon lol
Depends if you know the crafting system (wich is weird) you can make a truly op gun or you can waste the best parts possible. And you have the in combat reloading wich can be extremely slow.
Yeah, my problem was that I ended up finding some parts and making a stupidly powerful gun fairly early in the game, and there was never a reason to use anything else. Which sucked a lot of the fun out of exploring and looting, because nothing I found was better than what I already had.
This game like most modern games suffers from what I call "Cool Guy Syndrome" It looks cool, the graphics, the box art, the visuals, the way the world is set up. You slowly build this idea in your head, it's cool. Just like someone you would perceive as cool. That idea, is in reality a totally different game than what you expect. Then you finally get it, load it up and hit play. It's not what you thought it was. Just like how if you were to hang up with that Cool Guy and find out...he's not really all that cool. He's boring, maybe just downright disgusting, maybe he doesn't handle criticism well at all and you feel you wasted your time. So many games, hyping themselves up as the Cool Guy, then ended up not being cool at all.
About the guns I think 🤔 you were supposed to upgrade luck so you can find super powerful gun parts....it does suck that the game doesn't tell you about this. I forgot if luck was separate from crit chance but upgrading these two things makes guns better. Not your fault....100% the dev's fault for making it that way without fully explaining it.
Partially my fault haha, I usually upgrade crit chance heaps in games and did put quite a lot into luck, just never got it far enough to push it over the edge
small amount of advice: for the thumbnail I think it would be better if you put the "who is this for" in 2 or 3 lines and put it in the spot left of the protagonist and also change the color to just white. Changing the thumbnail can also cause a new influx of viewers sometimes.
Honestly, while i havent FINISHED the game, I do enjoy it. It seems like thematically its geared towards children and teaching them about being eco-friendly. I enjoy the silly names they give things. However, it CAN be repeatative with all of the pieces you need to collect. It reminds me a little bit of Fur Fighters on PS2.
Thats the free effect tbh. Ive gotten many games on psplus that people have said are mid or bad that ive thoroughly enjoyed since i didnt have to pay or have expectations
......neither of your arguments are making this game sound good. "It's enjoyable when other games you like can't be played or you barely expect anything and don't have to buy it".
The reason why everyone says gun are OP in this game is because at launch, there was a perk that doubled the damage of machine guns. Pair that with a weapon mod that has your bullets deal damage when they enter and exit an enemy, effectively doubling their power again, and you could melt pretty much every enemy in the game, including bosses within a couple seconds. I played it at launch and after discovering how OP machine guns were, I never touched another weapon again. A little while after launch, they update the game nerfing the perk that doubled machine gun damage to be in line with the other weapon boosting perks.
Biomutant had unbelievable potential and I hope they make a sequel. There’s so much they could fix to make the game a great experience. But things like the character designs and weapon building are great, but everything else is meh
Thanks for the in depth review. I see it on sale .. and I feel like I’m looking at lipstick on a pig. Excellent points : Who is the game for? Why is it not fun? What is the motivation What makes you want to get more points or stats or power points? I think you saved me $10 and hours of disappointment and asking myself “why am I playing this?” 👍
I remember when this was in development and they announced it, it was actually genuinely cool looking. I think a lot of other people have already said it, but it got feature creeped to hell and back, and all the features that did make it into the game are really underbaked, at least compared to what was actually promised.
I was actually thinking about if someone did a "is it worth it now?" For Biomutant today. I bought it at launch and was super hyped, but got sad pretty fast
Yeah, I saw this at PAX East when it was revealed. I was intrigued by what I played then, but found the controls super floaty and unsatisfying. Sound and animations sounded and looked pretty budget. The combat wasn’t super great, but it wasn’t bad. On top of that, it felt too Borderlandsy to me. Just tried way too hard to be funny. But hey, it was prerelease. Got to play it for free on PS Plus years later and regretted the thirty minutes I spent on it. I don’t usually try to look for things to hate in a game, and I try to keep an open mind. But man, this was such a 5/10 experience through and through. There was definitely some improvement in all the areas I mentioned before, but it was still a mess. Nothing in the final product felt like it belonged with any other part. Just felt like an overall lack of polish on top of straight up strange design decisions. And the running still doesn’t match up with the animation on screen 😂 It had been five years since I played that prerelease build. What happened?
Exploration for exploration sake was my main driver when playing the game. The narrator and story were very goofy, childish, and grating, but I did mostly enjoy poking around the world for secrets and loot. Its been a long time since I played, so I can't remember specifics, but I remember the clothing system kinda sucking. I also started as a psyker and then the psychic abilites ended up being more of a secondary ability since the damage sucked. The ice power was pretty useful though for preventing enemies from hitting you. All in all, the game wasn't good enough to finish. I had some hours of fun and a lot of hours of "ehh".
Who is the game for? The people who made it. It's a game the devs wanted to make. It's like a fan fic version of itself. If it feels like an unfocused game, it's because it's the game the devs thought were cool or belonged in the game. There was no one to say "no".
I do not have much to say on this one, as I have very little investment in the topic. However I've found myself at a greater willingness to commit the time, and some anticipation, with a new Josh Everton release, even if some topics are (for me) a tough sell. I say as much though, because you do continue to deliver. I am mostly shocked at the depth for which you've regarded this title as it seems particularly obscure; not something I'd even heard of until seeing this video. I may be posing such an opinion from bias informed on video content alone, but it feels almost a waste of critique. And I am not certain if it is simply in my personal lens, but it feels like you had a lesser strength of interest in the topic after a point in the digest. Nevertheless as food-for-thought on creative integrity, and good accompaniment dialogue to work, I thoroughly enjoyed the exploration of Biomutant as from your experience. And also saddened by the frequency with which such simple development issues like user-interface (per the start of the video) are able to get passed through on officially licensed media in the market. It is not all films, games, stories, etc, but an alarming amount seem to forgive themselves in negligence as years proceed. To me, in deeply valuing what a game is intent on saying, the sheer lack of meaningful writing just oozes either a lack of care or stiff working conditions. I will remain perpetually worried what concessions of the next ten years will bring to video games in media as developers seek a _concluded_ project over a _finished_ one, more and more. I do hope Experiment 101 - like all creative teams in the early stumbling phase - may learn and grow from this and show a new product that demonstrates an ability to evolve. Great video, Josh.
As always, I look forward to and sincerely appreciate your viewership, feedback, and insight. Thank you again for the thoughtful and constructive comment, hope you enjoy future content!
I was so disappointed when this game launched, and I literally got banned from the Discord for just saying I didn't like it. I regret not getting a refund. The game was literally unplayable as melee classes at launch because one of the early game bosses had it's hurt boxes too deep inside it's collision box so it was nearly impossible to hit. Then I gave up, and made a ranged character, but then the next update nerfed the class I chose so I just gave up entirely. When they charge $60 + a worthless pre-order bonus DLC, they deserve to be compared to other games with similar price tags no matter how "small" the studio is.
I played it and it felt... unfinished, as if there was more to be present but they just left it out and sent the game out example: when you join the bad guys and make good decisions they change their mentality and want to help you, the leader even worries about you, starts thinking that making the big monsters eat the tree might not be the answer but in the ending it just goes "fuck this world", they behave as nothing happened or that you didn't do anything same as joining the good guys, they don't care about you and start asking to end the competition, but it's the same with them. it felt like there was a lot of the story missing and frankly it needed that missing part but even then it felt like it was missing 40% of a game. I felt disappointed by this game.
I have a few of japanese friends who're obsessed with this game- but I don't think it's for the gameplay; they mostly just like thinking about the characters making out. Maybe the translation is just really creative?
I hated this game. There were some good ideas in there, but for every 1 good idea there were 50 awful ideas that got in the way. Fighting the same monster over and over again in copy paste locations. And that narrator realy grates on my nerves very quickly. In fact, the best thing about the game was were I refused to save any characters since they were all annoying as hell. So, the final scene where it shows you who you saved ended up being 2 minutes of looking at empty seats. I wish I recoded that now as it had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.
The game's biggest drawbacks not being combat or exploration, is how the story is told. Through a narrative in a world where nothing can be understood. Everything spoke in nonsense noise which removed any factor for emotion impact and connection between the characters. It was difficult to care about them or take them seriously when they're grunting Elvish impersonations.
I'm addicted to this game. It looks amazing on my panel on series x. It's not a perfect game. The narrator is stupid, the rats talking gibberish is stupid. The combat when done right is super fun, the spells or bio powers are cool. The open world is beautiful post apocalyptic. I love weapons. The mounts are cool as hell. Give this game a try. Collecting junk around the world is worth it. You can break it down for parts and upgrade almost everything. I like that they have different regions. Cold, hot, toxic etc. They over achieved but the games a solid 7.5
This game really feels like it SHOULD have been amazing. I loved the idea of it. I liked the art style and the cool comic book FX. The melee combat seemed awesome and the guns were a post apocalyptic mish-mash put together junk. The world trying to heal from the damage humans caused and leaving scars and blemishes. But then, everything you said, was right. It seemed more childish than child-like. The combat became same-y. The story dragged on. The characters were lame, and all of them were SO DAMN UGLY. I wanted to be a cool badass furball but I'm this goofy ugly rat thing and everyone else is just as goofy. The monsters were cool but just a bit "off' in a lot of ways. The narrator I turned off and just read the lines. This game could have been amazing, and maybe a biomutant 2 would be. The ideas were there but the execution was lackluster and underbaked. You're 100 percent spot on
The KLICK getting giant in the screen happens if you keep trying to fire an empty gun, it shows klick several times before the giant klick; a kid might not notice unless you make it giant on the screen. That was done on purpose, not a glitch. It's obvious it's made for kids, the UI looks like fortnite's.
But Fable exists? This is definitely not the correct game to introduce someone new to the genre, unless you want to overwhelm them. And the story isn't interesting enough to engage someone that doesn't have much interest in the RPG mechanics. Fable is way simpler, while still retaining the meat of the action RPG genre (it even affords itself a morality system), while having a compelling and easy to understand story. Fable is what Biomutant wanted to be.
Targeted towards kids isn't really a valid criticism when games in this same vien like ratchet and clank, sly cooper, jak and daxter, hell even spyro or crash, are for kids, but are also enioyable by everyone. And that's to say nothing of nintendo games. This game just plane old sucks. Lol.
biomutant is what i like to call ''video game junk food'' it's not really apeasing in any way. but something about it just hits the spot and i can't place my finger on why.
I remember getting the code to play this and give my review. I played about 2 hours to get my thoughts together and sadly I hated it. If this came out on PC in the early 00s it might have worked
