Broforce

It's 2026 and everyone is asking: "What's your opinion of Broforce?" Well I'll tell you. I hate it. I hate it because it's so close to being a classic, like painfully inches from perfection. But there are so many bad design decisions that just make the game incredibly unfun. The tone and art and feel of the game are all incredibly good, but no one wants to hear about that. THE BAD 1) I can't keep track of where I am. The visual chaos of the game, while endearing, makes it so I have to keep my eyes locked on the player character or I just lose them completely. That means I can't watch for anything coming my way. 2) There is too much stuff that kills you. Dying to enemy bullets is wonderful. Dying to a stupid falling block that got shoved loose because you barely grazed it, is not. Falling in a giant pit because the jump mechanics are so unwieldy and vary between Bros isn't fun either. 3) The destructable enviroments weren't a good idea. Yeah I said it. And I mean it. Being able to pick axe through a level and skip everything isn't good, it isn't fun, and requires no creativity. 4) The options in this game are terrible. It's hard to even get to the button layout menu, you have to be fully exited from the game and in the main menu, otherwise you can't see that there is a DASH BUTTON THAT THE GAME NEVER TELLS YOU ABOUT. But don't worry dashing only works some of the time. 5) Stuff randomly explodes. Sounds great right? except the part where you have no idea what is going to happen in a level without serious foreknowledge. I'm okay with having to learn a level but how the rules and physics of the game randomly seem to change, is maddening. The AoE of exploding barrels seems to be random, sometimes 1 square radius, or sometimes up to 4. Good luck figuring out how to meatboy your way through the levels with that kind of craziness. 6) Like anyone cares, this game is way past the point where it's going to get updated. If it had a few more modern design decisions it would be great and for some people I'm sure it is great, but I found it too annoying to continue, I got like 86% through the campaign before I had to put it down.