Have y'all played Sundered? It's a metroidvania game released in 2017 that has a reputation for being very difficult. I never beat the final boss, even on Easy Difficulty.
It does some hanky shit that artificially makes it harder like:

  • enemies that teleport the moment they are off screen
  • enemies that can shoot at you from off screen but you can't shoot back
  • random alarm / alerts that inundate you with enemies
  • locking in an area during certain alarm / alerts so you can't just run away
  • infinitely repopulating enemies so an area is never "clear"
  • boss encounter arenas that zoom way out so you can barely see your character

However, when you die, you keep your upgrades and your money. The only permanent consequence is dumping you back in the middle of the map and a roguelike shuffling of the other rooms. It doesn't even lock you out of any shortcuts you've already found.

Anyway, this mug started the game on the hardest difficulty and hated it for being too hard.
I can get that.
What did he do?
Perhaps try Normal difficulty to learn for to play the game first?
Maybe read some forum posts about the best builds so he knows what to unlock first?

Nah.

Leave a negative review and uninstall.

And he keeps complaining in the discussion thread. Talking about other hard games he picked up easily and mastered.
Okay.
But this is not those games and you have to learn how to play this game to play this game.

A negative review.
The gaul.

Who does that?

This mf'er that's who.
What is the mindset? What is the thinking?
"I immediately jumped into the hardest difficulty and it was too hard and not fun so therefore the game is terrible 5 / 10, maybe lower."

But why?

Didn't even try a lower difficulty.

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Apr 20, 2023 - Day 110 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 119

Game: Sundered Eldritch Edition

Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Jul 8, 2017
Library Date: Jan 7, 2019
Unplayed: 1564d (4y3m13d)
Playtime: 45m

Today I found myself faced with a "pure" Metroidvania. I even Googled it to make sure I understood the term.

So, some of the games I've been referring to as "platformers" may actually be better defined as Metroidvanias, and that is to say, I don't like them.

I find them frustrating, and I lack the hand-eye coordination to pull of the moves at the right time, and somehow this morning, none of that mattered.

I thought I'd knock out the game this morning in a quick 15 minute play session, and write up a review, and that would get me focused and into work time.

Some time later, I quit out to find I'd been playing for 45 minutes. Somehow, I managed to pull all the pieces together and find a rhythm, and what a marvellous rhythm it is.

It's an incredibly atmospheric game, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. Part old-world horror, part technology, dropping through floors, and wall-jumping, killing everything in sight.

While (as usual) I was playing in "easy" mode, it wasn't easy for me, but not so challenging I wanted to punt the controller out the window.

It makes me want to give some others another try.

Sundered Eldritch Edition is:

4: Good

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