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As someone whose very into playing unique indie games I want to talk about Ultrakill because I feel like the game's actual real issues get set to the side when the game's awful developers get brought up (they suck, obviously, this OP is great).
So if you don't know, Ultrakill has this "combo" system, its not really a combo but essentially the better you play the more your combo score goes up, and depending on how up your combo score is you'll get a special rank from C to S. This is pretty cool on paper but the issue comes when the skill ceiling for getting S ranks on levels is RIDICULOUS, seriously, go on youtube and look up "ultrakill S rank level" and the amount of dedication and flawless execution you need to get the S ranks is absurd. This would not be an issue if it wasn't required to experience the entire game as is, but that's not the case, you need to get S ranks to play the secret levels which is just dumb and I hate it.
Second big issue, the fucking bosses. The game's standard levels on the violent difficulty (slightly harder than normal mode) are very reasonable, sometimes difficult but a normal person who works a 9-5 like myself can learn it can beat the game, despite the absurd skill ceiling these normal levels are still fun to play. For some reason the boss fights in this game are INSUFFERABLE, I hate them so much. The first boss, V2, is similar to your player, think of the marauder from doom eternal (a game that is better than ultrakill in literally every way), he is always sliding around and shooting borderline hitscan attacks at you so there's two solutions:
1 - constantly spam the dash move with left shift while trying to aim at the same time (this blows)
2 - spend up to hours trying to execute the correct path of attacks to kill this boss in 2 seconds
If the game did not give you the ability to cheat and skip these fights, this game would be a 2/10, but you can so its half playable. The next boss and a boss later down the line are more like real video game bosses where you can dodge their attacks reasonably and its not fucking retarded. But the rest of the game's bosses, another showdown with V2 and two fights with the Gabriel character fucking suck and I hate them.
Now from that rant you might think I think ultratroon is the worst game ever but I think it is alright overall for one main reason:
Is its extremely similar to doom eternal but it is different enough to be a game to pirate if you want something like doom eternal. It is much more focused on groups of fodder enemies with a narrow selection of bigger enemies that get a lot easier to kill the more you fight them. The movement is also much more fast paced, its really satisfying to kill enemies while bouncing off of walls although its difficult. I think if you play the game without caring too much about your rank and skipping the boss fights it is not too terrible.
But fuck this game's retarded gooner fanbase, seriously
So if you don't know, Ultrakill has this "combo" system, its not really a combo but essentially the better you play the more your combo score goes up, and depending on how up your combo score is you'll get a special rank from C to S. This is pretty cool on paper but the issue comes when the skill ceiling for getting S ranks on levels is RIDICULOUS, seriously, go on youtube and look up "ultrakill S rank level" and the amount of dedication and flawless execution you need to get the S ranks is absurd. This would not be an issue if it wasn't required to experience the entire game as is, but that's not the case, you need to get S ranks to play the secret levels which is just dumb and I hate it.
Second big issue, the fucking bosses. The game's standard levels on the violent difficulty (slightly harder than normal mode) are very reasonable, sometimes difficult but a normal person who works a 9-5 like myself can learn it can beat the game, despite the absurd skill ceiling these normal levels are still fun to play. For some reason the boss fights in this game are INSUFFERABLE, I hate them so much. The first boss, V2, is similar to your player, think of the marauder from doom eternal (a game that is better than ultrakill in literally every way), he is always sliding around and shooting borderline hitscan attacks at you so there's two solutions:
1 - constantly spam the dash move with left shift while trying to aim at the same time (this blows)
2 - spend up to hours trying to execute the correct path of attacks to kill this boss in 2 seconds
If the game did not give you the ability to cheat and skip these fights, this game would be a 2/10, but you can so its half playable. The next boss and a boss later down the line are more like real video game bosses where you can dodge their attacks reasonably and its not fucking retarded. But the rest of the game's bosses, another showdown with V2 and two fights with the Gabriel character fucking suck and I hate them.
Now from that rant you might think I think ultratroon is the worst game ever but I think it is alright overall for one main reason:
Is its extremely similar to doom eternal but it is different enough to be a game to pirate if you want something like doom eternal. It is much more focused on groups of fodder enemies with a narrow selection of bigger enemies that get a lot easier to kill the more you fight them. The movement is also much more fast paced, its really satisfying to kill enemies while bouncing off of walls although its difficult. I think if you play the game without caring too much about your rank and skipping the boss fights it is not too terrible.
But fuck this game's retarded gooner fanbase, seriously
