Punch Club

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I liked the story and funny references. Love the things that happen in the background of some maps, it's such a small thing but a really nice fun thing to implement. I liked the music. I really liked the spritework, animations, the artwork in general. And it's cheap, affordable, and can run on a potato. But... I [b]really[/b] dislike just how repetitive it is, just how much "do the same-exact-same thing with very little thought... for hours" it is. The gameplay loop is just mind-numbing and so grindy, and then you still need to pray that your RNG won't be awful (especially where it counts), since it will slow it all down even further and force even more time of doing the same exact thing, with hope that this next time RNG will be better. And hey, I get it, the whole potential "simulation/message" - getting in shape and going from 0 to a professional is a huge grind, (and that there are fights where you just lose, and you have to just accept it, get back up and try again)... but people generally play video games for other reasons than to grind something braindead! Especially with how in real life you get benefits from doing some kind of grind - be it for education, dyploma, job experience, money, fame, position, or health. Grinding exercise IRL will take much longer, yes, but you'll get you many benefits from it - here you're just wasting time not getting [b]anything[/b] out of it. If wanted to make it a story-focused game with funny references, then perhaps it would be a wise move to either make the gameplay part much shorter, or more engaging/interesting? For instance, the game "The Use Of Life" nailed on both story and gameplay fronts I'd dare to say, there's a fair bit of doing the same thing there too, but the dev made it engaging (even if I think certain animations should be skip-able). Here, just the amount of grinding (and the fact that you can't even increase the speed of game up except for the fights themselves, and it's still slow) is just grinding my gears, it's just such an unnecessary waste of time. What's also annoying is how then all that grind comes down to an auto-battler, you can't control your character, choose when he punches or blocks/dodges, or do some kind of QTE to make sure your character's blow connects or opponent's blow is blocked, no, it's all 100% RNG. All this grind, and it still comes down to RNG to bless you or screw you over. Even with the right build(or I should say "loadout" since there are basically 3 builds, each with it's own pretty streamlined premise) and stats, it's still up to randomness if you win... or lose and have to continue grinding just to retry. Plus there's very little you can do to swap your build once you choose a path(one you need to choose basically at the beginning of the game, and you can't respec). Sure, you can make some changes to your loadout, like putting less attack and more block/dodge/rest options, but other than that, it's all. (And you can't do even that if you chose a certain perk, because it entirely [b]locks you out[/b] of choosing blocking/dodging moves anymore. Sure, it's worded the way it is, but I still thought I could CHOOSE to bring block/dodge to the loadout and then I'd simply not get the benefit of that perk, thought "It would be dumb if I permanently couldn't choose to change my loadout like this, like what is this, sealing a demonic pact?", but no, locked out entirely. And again, there is no 'respec' option. I'd say more, but TLDR: You choose a build at the beginning of the run, you can't change it, if you want to change it just start a new run... and grind almost 10 hours, doing the same exact thing over and over again with minimal input. Maybe the game is simply not for me, and that's okey. It has many positive reviews after all, I'm actually happy for it and it's developers that it found audience/fans. Bit feels like that "The sum of game's parts is greater than any it's parts separate". But respectfully, with just 2 options "recommend or not", I feel like I just can't give it a "recommend" with gameplay loop and time-sink being what it is. Not to even mention that apparently in the last fight you have only 1 attempt to win. If you lose, you have to start an entirely new save and grind for multiple hours again just to try again... and possibly be fooked by RNG again... who decided that to be the case? Come on. Also second cutscene with [spoiler]the cat[/spoiler] bugged out, at least for me, instead of the other cutscene - [spoiler] the first one played again, for the second time[/spoiler], instead of the other one that I found on YT that should've played.