Sodaman

People have latched on to the "AI slop" buzz words because thats what they've heard and so they just regurgitate it. Is AI bad? Is using AI for voice lines bad? Are small developers obligated to keep voice actors employed? I don't condone AI scraping art off the web, but if a small dev needs to use AI to make their game, I'm good with it. Is the game good? Yes, its fun, tongue in cheek, and actually has some polish. For me, the main question, is the game entertaining, and worth the money? Absolutely, and I'm enjoying it.

I picked up Sodaman for the price of a few sodas, and somehow it delivered more entertainment than the actual sodas. The game wastes absolutely no time. Within minutes you’re already blasting through enemies like you accidentally drank a 12-pack of energy drinks mixed with liquid confidence. The progression is fast, the action is nonstop, and before long you’re so overpowered that the enemies should probably be filing complaints with HR. I usually hate games that take 10 hours to “get good.” Sodaman basically walks up and says, “Nah, here’s a ridiculous weapon, go cause problems.” And honestly? I respect that. For the cost of a couple drinks from a gas station, you get a surprisingly addictive game that lets you become an unstoppable, caffeine-fueled force of destruction almost immediately.

7 hours played in a row after purchase. That is rare for me unless Kenshi or an Xcom game. I REALLY like this game. Too tired for a detailed review. I Should have went to bed hours ago....

First of all, uses AI. Like, the voices of the characters are terribly disturbing. Second of all, the women is this game are here for the purpose of the main character lust, and if not they are here for his friends. Third of all, mecanics are all right, combos are quite enjoyable. So if you want to sell your soul, feel it while you play, and encounter a few bugs, go ahead.

Very funny to add a disclosure about AI [i]after[/i] release, as if you know it's bad and didn't want to admit to it, but still used it anyway. You could have paid some random internet strangers a bloody fiver and gotten infinitely better voice acting. It doesn't "deliver a more immersive experience," you'd just rather use algorithmic slop than a real human being, and it's nothing but a detriment to your game

Buyer beware. Uses AI slop.

played this for way too long before I learned about all the AI slop in the game and the devs' choice to obscure that fact until after a full release. There's not much to say that hasn't already been said in other reviews but to hit the main points: - The AI voice work is garbage, there's no reason to avoid paying some randos on fiverr to do a better job - Gameplay feels lacking in just about every department; the upgrade/build system seems good until you put in over a dozen runs and figure out that you can't make a cohesive build, just overpowered randomness. - No cohesion between map size and boss fights. The game wants you to constantly run around for upgrades, which isn't a bad idea, but then it locks you into a tiny arena for boss fights, so if the boss is too hard you can't even go grab the upgrade chest that is just out of reach of the arena. Granted, it's rare that a boss is too hard, but there are a couple that are absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and they really demonstrate the weakness of the arena idea. - Meta progression is stupid, to go along with the AI voice complaint why on earth did you need all this "story" and all these "characters" in a game that's basically just Vampire Survivors? The choice to include a populated hub and then fill it with clankers is baffling, none of it was necessary in terms of providing the player with a sense of meta progression, just have Sodaman go back to his spaceship and upgrade his own stuff in silence. - Even if you skip through all of the dialogue like i did, it's still painfully apparent that everyone around Sodaman exists either to suck his ♥♥♥♥ (both literally and figuratively) or to be turned into a pile of red goo. It's not that a game like this can't work with a story and characters, it's that this specific game had no business trying to have either. TL;DR AI slop game, avoid this studio -

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