Hikikomori No Chuunibyou

Hikikomori No Chuunibyou is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. You might think this is just another copy + paste of the Ninjahtic game the developer cloned several times (why get paid for a game once when you can get paid 3 times?) but it's not... the brawling is different, there's a lot of differences, but then these are ultimately minor and while the game plays slightly better (but not much), it's got more in common with the Ninjahtic games than it has differences. I guess that's the GameMaker Studio platformer template heritage. One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphi…

A barely functional platformer that commits so hard to it's main premise of sticking you in the role of an unlikeable autist that it forgets to be fun to play.

This [i]might[/i] earn a neutral if the option existed, but even then it'd still tether quite close to a negative. It's not the worst game I've played or everything, but for every thing it does right, it does at least one wrong. The gameplay is a mix of parkour with occasional slight "stealth" elements (read: there's patroling robots which more or less instakill you if they spot you) and brawler sections. For the parkour some of the moves (mostly wallruns) are slightly janky, which make successful completion of a couple of some manuevers unguaranteed (not ragequitting bad, but often enough to add up). These parts actually feels rather well when it's flowing well (though sometimes the timed obstacles prevent a superfluid motion like you can achieve in superior precision platformers). The brawler sections boil down almost entirely to button mashing (the tutorial swears there's combos, but I could never get find anything more complex than the air versions of light and heavy attack). There's a bit of strategizing to be done to make things easier and a couple of the bosses take more conscious actions, but they are all too similar not to feel like they're there for padding after a while…

This one's just too rough / flawed for me, and I stopped at Act V. That's when I learned that the save system only saves at the beginning of each act (augh!). I don't think I'm going to finish it. A lot of the problems with this game are fixed in the next one, so this one's interesting just to see the evolution.

A fun little game worth the price you pay. If i had to complain I'd say the later parkour sections are borderline sadistic and that the wall jumping is fairly jank.

A nice little platformer. I liked the minimalistic aesthetic, the jazzy music and the not too serious banter of the characters during the cut scenes . I had a bit of trouble with the wall running mechanic at the start, but I found the explanation in the discussions page (you have to jump near the wall to run on it). The game requires a good timing and precision in the most difficult rooms. A good challenge for me (not a big player of action games), difficult sometimes, but not impossible.