Broken Reality 2000

Game is unacceptably buggy for how simple it is. I just kept getting softlocked. So frustrating. I played through the full game, got the requirements to get the true ending, and then fell through the world at literally the actual final last place possible. Will have to redo the entire final world again. Not happening. Game is just boring, ugly, unfunny. A chore to play. No interesting puzzles. Really annoys me because I loved the first one. 8 years for this is crazy.

I'm not really sure if this is better or worse than the original since I haven't played that in years. Do I have higher standards now? But man, the fetch quests are really getting to me. The humor is so bland. The puzzles (if you want to call them that) are just meaningless busywork. I'm more offended by the crypto nonsense than the booby body pillow. Somehow this game is buggier than the player character's apartment as well.

I would consider the first Broken Reality to be one of my favourite games of all time. This one misses the mark severely. It doesn't capture any of the charm the first game had and is overall just boring and flat. On top of this I got softlocked 4 hours in because an important key item didn't properly get added to my inventory. Also, a ton of bugs, clipping through walls, I had skins collected that don't show up and tools show up in my inventory without ever collecting them. All that being said IT HAS BEEN 8 YEARS since the first game. You'd think the developers would have something impressive to show. And VR has been delayed and may not even release. That's unacceptable given the time this game has been in development. TLDR: The game is soulless and a buggy mess. Play the first game it's actually worth your time.

Broken Reality 2000 fails so much to be a compelling game to me, it makes me question why i even liked the first game to begin with. With how many bad design ideas it takes from the original game, and how it offers nothing new that makes it enjoyable or memorable, im sitting here scratching my head wondering what went wrong here. If you want to feel even worse, a single "unstuck" button update days after launch is what made this game go from a boring slog i completely hated, to a somewhat tolerable experience i could try to cheese at every opportune time the developer decided to lock progression behind random quests i had zero motivation of completing. and even then, i gave up when the game decides that backtracking and going through more different boring zones after you already did 4 or so is a good idea. Broken reality, as a series, hides its flaws behind its artstyle. it worked well in the original, but it fails here. nothing grips you. NPC models and writing are so boring and lame (and it doesn't help they're all glitching through walls.) Music is generic. Humour isn't timely or actually funny. graphics are nostalgia bait with no soul. Maybe you're not here for compelling gameplay. let's say your proposition is getting to oggle at pixel graphics, feel good about yourself, wander around, and do vague cryptic puzzles and backtracking (for some ungodly reason..). It's worse here, by a long shot. I waited for this game forever. I played for nearly 4 hours to convince myself i enjoyed this. but it's not a fun video game, whether you want gameplay or you just want a trippy experience. it's too boring, cryptic, and bugged. and unless the dev decides they want to add 10 more bugs that make speedrunning possible, or a randomizer, or some other pie in the sky thing, this game will not be good. And looking back now, neither game is that good, and i don't know what would fix them. Just get the first game, play it until you inevitably get stuck, and stop there in ignorant bliss. This is sad.

This sucks man I really really wanted to like this game. I loved the first one but from playing this for about an hour it just felt like a mega slog. The characters were fun to talk to and the graphics are nice but walking around and trying to get likes is a completely tedious activity, it becomes a total pain in the ass once you do the first few jobs and then have to go on a scavenger hunt looking for QR codes. I just don't enjoy it.

play the first game instead

Given how aesthetically pleasing and experimental the first game was, this sequel is just hot a$$. Broken (no pun intended), barely a videogame and overstays its welcome. The Y2K aesthetics i've expected to find are simply not there, the story (if you can call it that) is nonexistent. Pretty much every gripe i've had with BR1 is quadrupled here: ♥♥♥♥♥♥ maymay references, lack of polish, bad game design choices. Don't bother.

I want to like this game. I really REALLY want to like this game. The original was one of my favorites when it came out. But this game feels like Diet Broken Reality. It feels like the stuff that made the first game feel special has been overshadowed by a large amount of bugs, which I find really disheartening, especially since this game has been in development for about eight years. While I appreciate the patches that have been coming out since launch, it doesn't change the fact that this game fails to hit the same sweet spot as the original.