Rain World

[b] I waited until I beat this game to finally review it, though my mind was made up quite quickly after an hour of playing to know how horrible an experience it would be. For some background I only enjoy difficult games; I have spent countless hours in other relentless games like Noita and Spelunky. Rainworld is a "hard game" which in reality is a game where if you don't have the wiki up the game wastes your time. [/b] Through clunky controls and the worst camera positioning for a platformer I have ever seen, this game quickly lets you know it has massive flaws. This game treats the player like an idiot while failing to teach them what they need to know to progress, while throwing them into the most unfair situations. It fails to instruct the player on what their goal is other than to survive, yet hints for you to explore through following this yellow creature. However, the game actively punishes you for exploring blindly with out the wiki's map as you are put on a timer that kills you if you fail to find shelter, which the player has no idea where they will be without outside assistance. In later areas of the game these save points are so far between with so much danger that it becomes insanely rage inducing quickly with a lot of rng if you progress. The community constantly excuses the games unforgiving nature saying "It's an ecosystem, and it shouldn't care for you". Though I can see the logic, it falls flat as the game will treat you like the main target; large enemies will try to eat you when there is much bigger creatures around they could simply go for. And those same bigger creatures will go for you at the same time! And the game should care for the player, as the point of playing games is to have fun, even if it is trying to be artsy at the same time. The camera deserves a whole section dedicated to how bad it is: Each area you progress through in the game has a static camera displaying the room you are in. However, the camera doesn't always show the full room, so you can have instant kill enemies off screen that can scrub a huge amount of progress in an instant. In later areas of the game, you can simply be thrown into instant death without hindsight as you can't see ahead of the room. It is simply inexcusable how bad a core part of the game like this could be thought of acceptable that even mods are made to fix issues like this. [b] I will not be going into spoiler territory for the game and out of respect for those who still wish to play should stop reading. [/b] [spoiler] The game wants you to explore, as to complete it and reach the end. However, as I played the game and reached focal points I expected to be rewarded story wise, as the journey was horrible as this game can be so unfair. Yet when I reached "Looks to the Moon" I am greeted with basically nothing. I end up killing the character who I spent all this time trying to get to, even though it was obvious I shouldn't. There was simply nothing else communicated by the game for me to do at this point. I then find out I permanently lose the orange indicator of where I have to go for the rest of the game. [/spoiler] [spoiler] This is the start of where I slowly have to keep going online to progress, and for nothing. I reach "Five Pebbles" after going through the most terribly designed area "Unfortunate Development". And I'm once again rewarded with no real lore, story and I'm told vaguely I have to go some other place again. Inevitably, after reaching "Sky Islands" I snap and finally HAVE to start using the online map. There simply is barely any save points and no indication of where to go. And after reaching the final area "Void Sea", I'm rewarded with a short, cryptic cutscene that made me feel nothing. [/spoiler] After all the hardship the game put me through, I simply didn't care. The game didn't care if I had fun, or about my time and then acts like I should about its' pretentious nothing story. I will absolutely receive hate for this review as the community has a massive toxic positivity relationship with this game, and thinks this game is flawless. But no, I don't think most people should ever touch this game, and if you are to interact with it to just watch a playthrough as this is the only way I can see normal people getting any enjoyment out of it.