Kreed

what the ♥♥♥♥ am i doing to myself to complete this game in one sitting? kreed is genuine torture. actual suffering. if i was an evil prison warden i'd subjugate inmates to this game everyday. everything is hateful or without thought. quality of life has no meaning to kreed. enemies cruelly instantly shoot you and run circles around cover to prolong gunfights, while all your weapons will be waterguns, limpdicks, or suicidal. limbo through consecutive repeated halls, rooms, and ventilation shafts— repeated between levels too, mind you. kafkaesque punishment where veterans of the genre (specifically this era of fps games as well) are continuously reprimanded for simply guessing which way is forward. trying to score extra supplies or see if a room has a button to press? oops, sorry, that was actually just a room to be a room or a needlessly large monster closet (but you wouldnt notice at first since those enemies decided to wander out instead of waiting for you). even old classmates of mine couldnt have pulled off this ♥♥♥♥ in the butt-ass game design program i graduated from. fork upon fork upon fork in the road with endless dead ends and megastructure-like size. then you'll start to feel insane through persistent deja vu as you enter room after room that look identical to the last ones. nothing is signposted. good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ luck not using a walkthrough, guide, or friends. you are doomed to be lost when the game isn't throwing grenade spamming, headless chicken hitscanners, trapped in the steel cage of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. the repetitive music exacerbates the maddening effect walking through kreed's tech-demo-styled halls and canyons will have on you. a constant regret and pleading for mercy for the next silly cutscene to arrive or, even better, for the game to end. its almost half walking sim with how much you'll be trying to find the way towards progression. but even when having moved to new locations, kreed will force you to return to the very start of the level and relive the long trawl. a miserable trek of humiliation and boredom now that most of the level has been freed of enemies. after having gone through whole levels and rooms more than 3-5 times each, the game then ends with a flooding of ♥♥♥♥ onto the proverbial bed by just throwing 1-shottable enemies and the most unsatisfying ending ive ever witnessed in a game. horribly ambitious and foolishly taken upon by a newly founded studio. thrills and frills were the aim, but all i got was despair and a few little laughs. only play kreed if youre a slavjank aficionado or too curious for your own good. i want to become the former, so i had to be the latter. tread carefully. the ground is bloody and ridden with bones.