Rain World Review 

New RW review is always welcome

I think I’ll stay away from the cute slug game.

7:05 I would argue that Celeste is way less punishing than rain world for the vast majority of the base game

7:05 I would argue that Celeste is way less punishing than rain world for the vast majority of the base game

the sprite animation looks really good but sadly this seems like the kind of game that is hard for the sake of being hard but thankfully they did put in multiple difficulties

Alright, I’ll share a bit of my experience with rain world. I started playing rain world at the same time as a friend of mine (we played in the same room but not together) and we were completely blindsided by the difficulty of the game. We played about 20 hours together, discovering and sharing stuff together and it was some of the most straight up and stupid fun I have had with a game, then we dropped it. I didn’t come back until months later, because I knew that I needed to like it and get to know it for myself. Took me twenty hours after restarting to finish the game. The ending was incredible for me, I was awed and in silence for a good while after finishing it (it was also like 3 o clock at the night in my dorm room in Argentina) I currently have 160 hours in Rain World and have not yet finished the game (I have met nothing harder then rain world yet, and I have 112%ed HK) Rain world has sort of become a meditative experience for me, so incredibly immersive and real feeling. I plan to play this game for a long time to come (maybe just because of how hard it is 😂) Anyways, good review, I respect you putting in more effort then any of the critics when it first came out, though I still think your opinion is wrong (jokes, just because I adore Rain World) Have a great day!

Not for me, I would lose patience 🤣

It just goes to show that there's a clear difference between interesting and fun. Games like this are educational... problem is that game developers aren't the one's playing them, we are. Game developers need to play this and learn from its flaws. I sorta felt similarly when I played Bannerlord in the end game, that end game is so unbelievably tedious and frustrated that I just quit and went straight to review the game even though I never conquered the whole map. It was a shame because I was having fun with Bannerlord for a while but that end game was absolutely horrendous, factions seemingly never dissolve and you are constant war from all sides with enemies that can get units super quickly and your allied AI does everything in its power to screw you by opposing your policies and forcing you to declare war/make peace via influence only for them to do absolutely nothing when the war happens. It's so unbelievably frustrating to deal with... to top it off, the game has permadetah from old age, while you can turn it off, if you forget to turn it off at the start, you can't turn it off in game, so when your character dies from old age, you have to find an heir and they are so underleveled that your momentum is lost completely and the enemy completely steamrolls you and you pretty much have to start all over again. I won't play this game.