True Hate

I have a lot of feelings about True Hate. Where to start... It's a 2D platformer with basic controls and levels that are actively trying to kill you. I'm not sure if the name refers to the player character's quest to kill the antagonist, or the feeling that builds inside you as you repeatedly die to cheap tricks, or the attitude of the developer towards the player. Could be all three. I confess that these kinds of platformers, where you navigate a machine of death - I'm reminded of Super Meat Boy - aren't my favourite. But I did enjoy this one. The ways to die are many and varied, from your standard spiked pits and ceilings to platforms that move as you approach or disappear without warning to sneaky lasers to fake checkpoints and ends of levels. Many of the dangers can be predicted by keeping a close eye on your surroundings, and many cannot. When you start the game it gives you the choice of having 1 life, up to 30 lives. Per level, that is - your health resets every time you clear a level. When you run out of lives, you just have to start over, and your progress can't be saved (except for how many times you die) so you need to play the whole game in a single session. I noti…

The only True Hate I found while playing this game was for myself, after being unable to make the most simplistic jumps after dying several times to different traps. I do believe that another good name is True Pain. I tried so hard to get access to the exit, only for that to be the wrong exit. I'm a fool, I played myself. The game looks nice though and the music is very pleasant. It makes it much harder for me to genuinely get angry at myself.

True hate is what I feel for the game developers. Terrible keyboard controls without possibility of customization, purposefully deceiving platforming elements in quick succession followed by extremely slow and boring moving platforms made to lose the momentum, very long time to respawn after you lose a life, and hard reset to the start of the game if you lose all your lives. I bought it on sale but it still isn't worth it. The fact that the achievement related to the completion of the second area is already a shiny one (less than 10% of the one who bought it got that far) is already a testament to the game.

A nice souls-like platformer. You may rage quit several times

really love the art style and the soundtrack. its very addicting trying to get through each level. very unforgiving though. once you're out of health thats it. right back to the beginning. really enjoyed this one.

awful game