Broken Reality 2000

[h1]奇ゲーの名作、その続編[/h1] 前作『Broken Reality』の世界観にハマり、新作の発表から楽しみに待っていました！ 日本語非対応かつ、ネイティブな英語表現が頻出するので 翻訳ツールやGoogle翻訳のカメラ機能を使うとストレスフリーです。 [spoiler]（前作からテキストめちゃめちゃ増えてます）[/spoiler] 新作ではストーリーが充実し、前作で「？」だった部分も少しずつ明かされていきます。 ゲームの進め方は前作を踏襲しており、15時間弱で全エンディング回収できました。 前作に引き続き、 [h3]「オブジェクトの当たり判定がおかしい」[/h3] [h3]「マップやアイテム配置、ギミックが分かりづらい」[/h3] [h3]「頻繁にスタックしてロードし直す羽目になる」[/h3] など、[b]嬉しい[/b]要素が満載です。 ぱっと聞きクソゲーですが、[b]開発陣は意図的に作り込みを甘くすることで世界観を演出しています。[/b] 2000年頃の3Dゲームだと思って不親切さを楽しみましょう。 ただし、致命的なものとしてスイッチ扉系のギミックでアイテム「[spoiler]Bookmarker[/spoiler]」をうまく（？）使うと、おそらく詰む箇所がいくつかあります。 セーブのタイミング次第では進行不可になるので気を付けましょう。 [spoiler]マップのロード時に、シリーズのキーパーソンである"Onee-Chan"のイラストが表示されるのですが、マップごとに違うイラストが用意されていて、これがとてもかわいい！！[/spoiler]

While I did have (some) fun playing this game, the bad really outweighed the good for me. The aesthetics of a lot of the environments, and the exploration and secrets were pretty good. But the decision to add these characters/subjects to the game, together with the many bugs and softlocks I enctountered completely ruined it for me. In the end it just did not capture what made the first game so special.

A digital rainbow refracted in a crystalline circuit board in a hacker's mainframe. A subtle sway of iridescent palm trees on the beachy shores of a dystopian neon cyber city scape scattered with Soma junkies and psychedelic casino carpets. This game reminds me of Jet Set Radio Future, Parappa the Rapper, Hackers, Tarkovsky's Stalker, Neuromancer, all mixed with the insides of my neon-addled hyperactive brainscape. I have been playing this game non-stop. Its this perfect mix of nostalgia with current commentary, the funny references to each and every piece of media in the last 30 years have kept me exploring and wanting more and more. There are subtle ouches like the spatialized audio and the slow moving gradients that make you feel totally immersed in the game. There is basically a beautiful song for almost each and every room and area, I just want to hang around to hear the entire thing. They have this way you giving you items that can change they way you interacted with previous areas that makes for endless playability. I keep on feeling like I've found some glitch in the game (reminds me of like Half-Life or Halo type glitches), but they are all intentional. These folks have put so much love and care and thought into this game its truly mind-blowing.

Broken Reality was one of the best indie games I've ever played. The sequel is no exception, I haven't even left the starting area and I'm already so immersed in the Natem world and excited to discover new areas. So simple but so fun, just love the characters and world.

This is a tough one for me. I loved the first game and it's immaculate vibes, but this just doesn't hit the same highs that the first one did. Don't get me wrong, I had fun and I think people should play this, but it definitely has problems. First, and this is just a personal preference, I don't think that this game's vibes are as immaculate as the first one. The vibes are definitely there but nothing comes close to something like Geocity from the first game. Second, this game is very buggy (at least as of right now). Third, the walk speed is SO SLOW, especially for how big some of these areas are. The fact that there's no run button is insane to me. Getting the hoverboard was an absolute lifesaver; I personally think that the player should get access to it earlier. Finally, this whole game feels almost directionless until the end. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't really get what the player was trying to achieve the whole time. There were some threads here and there but most of them were loose and some of them didn't lead anywhere at all. In conclusion, it's a good game but it needs some serious fine tuning.

I absolutely loved the first game, but this one seems like it didn't really go in any new direction and actually feels far smaller in scope than the old game. Something that was really fun in the previous Broken Reality was all the quirky weird characters and the main story arc, but this has none of that. There are no memorable characters that continue to appear throughout your journey, there are no long and interactive conversations and the overall plot really doesn't come up very often, so it just feels like you're roaming around endlessly to solve puzzles with no feeling of them being actually needed storywise. Overall the game is okay, but it pales in comparison to the original and I'd argue this has very little replayability compared to the first game. The only real positives I found were a few quality of life improvements over the previous entry but that's not really enough to make the game actually fun.

This is a game I so badly wish I can give an average review for, neither fully positive nor negative. I played the first game back in 2024, loved it, had some issues with backtracking but everything else was very fun. This one, I feel like the backtracking problem was even worse, and the camera photo sections giving likes led to ending up not focusing on the game itself and just making sure I scan everything for the correct photo spot. The story, I think, was much less... prominent? There? I got the ending without the medallions and was interested in the ERROR character but she didn't seem to say a single thing, and the 'True' ending didn't really say anything at all either. There was very little character interaction compared to the first game.. As it is, I think the music is awesome, the environment design is wonderful and a facet of a time online that I'm personally deeply nostalgic for. I had a great time with the overall game, I just feel like it's lacking in a lot of areas that I would rather have seen more fleshed out.

"Mid, Mid, Mid. Skip, Skip, Skip." - Poopypants Drake I enjoyed the first game but the craziness of this game was very unfortunate to see. The introduction of the new and old tools from the game was very nice to see. I also loved the scenery and aesthetic, the story was ok but did get hard to follow towards the end. My main issue lies mostly with the gameplay. The puzzles felt like they lack context in many areas and there were late introductions to new mechanics, especially towards the end. There were grammar errors in a few text too as well, but those are more easy to get by. I was looking forward to this addition, but my disappointment is immeasurable.