Ash Miller

Game got a huge graphical and moment upgrade, and that’s where the good ended. The original story line was fine, no need to have changed it around in even the smallest detail. The difficulty on easy is ramped up extremely too high, given the first was a walk in the park, that was not a bad thing. The amazing part of the original was the psychological horror NOT jump scares and heart pounding button smashing fights. They missed the mark on this, maybe a younger generation will enjoy the fight scenes but the magic is gone for me. I threw in the towel at abstract daddy and don’t have any aggravation tolerance left in me to see this through. All this game needed was modern graphics and the over the shoulder camera, period. The original was the Mozart, you don’t take his work and make your own interpretation of it.

This is really a 0 star show. The first was unique and original. This one is simply just a joke. Ok I guess it wasn’t supposed to be a second season (obviously in 10 seconds) but that’s where it should have gone if it was coming back. However this show was done with one season. It didn’t need to carry on. Netflix has cancelled so many shows on cliffhangers but the first which was pretty good came to a decent conclusion. There is no danger the characters are in. It basically another so called “reality” show. Lots of sit down interviews that seriously remind me of the bachelor or some other garbage like that. This was one of the biggest let downs from Netflix in awhile. I could not make it through the first episode. And what I saw it was just a complete repeat of the games from the first but treated as a combination of a game show and a reality show. The actors were absolutely dull, their story’s made me want to vomit and the acting was terrible, some would sit there and look dumb and then “oh I’m supposed to be dead” and just lay down. It’s brain rot. Pass on this. I’d literally have to be paid to watch this and I really enjoyed the first one. We just decided we would watch the original again due to this one being absolutely terrible. There is no “squid games” here, just stolen costumes and movie props.

First everything seems amazing about the game, your peel yourself out of a pile of flesh and start moving about solving puzzles completely lost, this is the best part of the game. No direction, amazing gory world very detailed, you have to figure everything out. No stupid AI talking to you to tell you to go left, no map, it’s more than a “walking simulator” it’s a puzzle game, that’s where it’s good. Being lost, trying to figure out puzzles and how to get which flesh covered moving part to where you need it for the next machine to do it’s job. It all falls apart with the combat and resource and saving mechanism. The first few monstrosities you run into seem a nice addition, fighting them is pointless, tricking them into getting lost is the best approach. They start to get more plentiful and harder to avoid as you move on. You rarely get any resources, they are stupidly overpowered only in the sense that when you do have to engage them they have a clear advantage. Their ranged attacks almost never miss. The spitting blob can hit you from across an open room even when you are running in a straight line on the other side, but your only option is to get close and bonk him in the head or pray you can sneak attack with the single barrel “flesh gun” that reloads slower than cooking a bag of popcorn. Enemy confrontation when it has to happen completely ruins the game, you’ll die, a lot, some parts put you way back to have to navigate another gauntlet full of enemies all over again if it’s been a bit since your last puzzle interaction. You wind up mad that you keep having to replay parts over and over, not that you are missing the right opportunity, but just that you have to keep retrying until the clunky corridor navigation will let you squeeze by something you’ll never kill because you have one bar of health left, no real opportunity to get a shot at, so you just keep retrying until you finally are able to bump around him. You either need more resources, or all enemies should be avoidable by learning there movements or they should have just left combat out, it’s not real important to the feel, you don’t need a weapon or health, all deaths should have been due to not paying attention to a flesh monster hiding in a wall barely noticeable making you move slowly and carefully, and once that hazard is past it should not be able to follow you. Too bad I really had high hopes for this game, it went well for awhile then slowly fell apart into just a chore.

It’s got it’s good and bad aspects. The good: - it’s a bit different than the run of the mill dead by daylight and evil dead games - you have more objectives than the ones mentioned above - it’s fun to be a member of a 3 killer family and go on a rampage - it’s “sort of” cross play - it’s graphics are well designed. - it’s simple to learn the controls - it’s frame rate appears smooth on a series X Xbox - it is the best thing to hit the horror multiplayer scene since Friday the 13th The bad - you cannot cross play with friends using older generation consoles - it has some bugs that will stall or kill your game especially if people drop, it doesn’t guarantee it will crash, it just sometimes does. - like all the rest you get no accumulated progression when your lobby crashes and you cannot get to the results screen, you lose it - lobby matching takes time and it throws you out if not enough people are on after around 2 minutes. Also you cannot continue to play with an open lobby. You must let it randomly select players over again for those not in a party - the family does not get skill progress together as a whole making each killer desire to get the kill instead of being a part of the team to get the job done (the same may be true of survivors leading to another issue mentioned below) - it’s repetitive, claustrophobic, and it’s maps are a labyrinth. - it gets boring, there is nothing you can do to keep a group of 7 required players together and let randomization select who you will be, killer or survivor. The game is only as good as the people you play with. - there is no incentive for players who get killed to finish the game - progression is tied to each character in an overly complex skill tree set and not to you as the player for use with all characters. So say you can have a level 15 cook with a lot of perks unlocked but a level 0 leatherface with absolutely nothing unlocked. The simplicity that existed in Friday the 13th is gone as far as progression is concerned. - from my perspective there doesn’t seem to be much to be desired playing as a survivor, it’s heavy killer based however the survivors are getting good as long as they communicate. - private matches give you no progression rewards. All in all the games pretty good, communication and friendliness are a must to enjoy it, it’s sad that you cannot keep a running lobby that randomly selects if you will be a part of the family or survivors like the legacy Friday the 13th. This is one of the biggest issues this game has, repetitive play with no lobby to keep everyone together to shake things up and keep the fun going when you get good friendly players and overly complex skill sets and character builds, some gameplay aspects of the Friday the 13th game should have been kept instead of discarded. Simplicity in ranking and upgrading with complexity in gameplay objectives all wrapped up in a package designed to be played as if everyone playing we’re friends on the couch, not competing in a tournament is the winning combo. For some reason all have gotten this somewhat off even some exactly the opposite aside from Friday the 13th which nailed it. Also again, the game is only as fun as the people you play with.