Why i HATE Biomutant

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review. Today I'll be reviewing the brand

new PC game Biomutant,

and I'll be talking about why I don't

think it's a very good game and why you

should not buy it. Okay, so I've been

playing this game for a couple of hours

now and I'm not really impressed. So what

is this game? Basically, it is a

third-person story-based action RPG game

of set in this Japanese-y, very colorful

kind of world, and you play as some kind

of massive rat or cat thing. I'm not sure

if it's a rat or a cat, some kind of furry

mammal, and he walks on 2 legs and he has

a very big sword and a gun. And as you can

see, it's very heavy on the RPG elements.

You got all of the traditional statistics

and stats like strength, agility,

intellect, vitality, that kind of stuff.

And then you can design your rat thing and

you can choose between different

playstyles in the game. There's melee,

there's range, there's like a spellcaster

playstyle. And when you're sliding around

the scale thing, you can choose, you can

kind of like attribute points and choose

what your character is going to specialize

in. And then his muscles get bigger if you

focus on strength, his head gets bigger if

you focus on intellect and intelligence,

His legs get longer and more agile looking

if you focus on agility. And that sounds

great and everything, but the problem is

the gameplay is just kind of boring and

mediocre, and it doesn't really matter

which playstyle you choose. You'll just

end up mashing either mouse key 1 or mouse

key 2 whilst jumping about and maybe doing

some rolls. There's nothing unique or

special about the gameplay and the combat.

It's basically just the same as any of

those other third-person hack-and-slash

kind of RPG games? Have you played The

Witcher? Have you played Assassin's Creed?

Have you played any of the Spider-Man

games? Well, if you have, then it's

basically the same kind of combat. The

enemies crowd around you and then you have

to parry or roll and dodge and kind of

evade their attacks whilst also spamming

your own combos. And you've got a gun for

ranged attacks, you've got a sword for

melee, and if you chose to specialize in

spellcasting, then you probably get some

kind of spell ranged spells abilities to

shoot at enemies from a distance. And

there's nothing really wrong about this

kind of combat system. I'm sure loads and

loads of people like it. That's why it's

such a common combat system that's found

in so many AAA games and popular games.

It's because most people like it. But for

me personally, I just don't really find it

that enjoyable. It's very boring. You just

spam the spacebar to jump up and down so

you don't get hit too much, and then

you're constantly spamming either mouse

key left mouse key or right mouse key to

perform attacks, combos, special moves,

and then if you run low on health, you

take some health packs. I just don't

really find it that engaging as gameplay.

As someone who mainly plays Rainbow Six

Siege, that's the kind of gameplay I

prefer where it's more skill-based and

aim-based, whereas this kind of gameplay

is like hack and slash. There's not really

much skill that goes into it. Yeah, I

guess you could say there's timing the

rolls and the parries, but I find that to

be very frustrating kind of gameplay that

I don't enjoy. And then I just felt like

all of the time, 100% of the time during

fighting, I'm just constantly spamming

mouse key 1. Click click click click click

click click click click click. It just

didn't really feel fun. The gameplay in

this game kind of reminds me of my

ex-girlfriend. In the beginning, she seems

cool and interesting, but then after a

while gets a bit repetitive and tedious,

and you realize you're just spamming the

same buttons over and over again, and

you're not really getting much

satisfaction out of it. I heard you also

get upgrades further along in the game.

You get new abilities and new weapons,

you know, pretty bog-standard stuff,

nothing interesting or unique there. And

another thing I noticed is this game loves

throwing bosses at you. If you don't know

my gaming history, I don't really like

boss battles. I don't like games like Dark

Souls because those games focus heavily on

Boss battles, epic boss battles with a big

monster who has a really, really long

health bar that you have to whack him a

thousand times before you even deplete 20%

of his bloody health bar. And it's like

two hours later, yeah, I got his health

bar down to 50%. And then one hour later,

yeah, he's only got 20% of his health bar

left. And then he enters final rage mode,

and then just one shot kills you. And then

you gotta start all over again. It's like,

oh great, he's at 100% health again.

Three hours later. And then you're back to

where you just left off. I just, I really

don't like boss battles because they have

such massive health bars. It takes so many

hits to take them down. It takes way too

long and it's just annoying. I prefer to

fight lots and lots of weak dumb minions

than just one massive really strong boss.

I don't like boss battles and this game

seems to throw bosses at you, or mini mini

bosses at you Straight away, even the

first combat you do in the game is

actually a boss. As for the graphics in

this game, they are just not quite up to

my standards. They look okay, you know,

good enough, and I like how it's very

colorful and everything. There's kind of

this comic book style graphics

and character design that I'm not really a

massive fan of. I'm more of a fan of

realistic graphics. I want graphics so

realistic that when I look out the window

and I compare the two, I think, wow,

looking out my window looks terrible.

This game looks better. But unfortunately,

I just can't say that about this game.

Another thing I have a bone to pick with

is the heavy Japanese theme.

So many parts of the level you see like

the Japanese-style gates or kind of

Japanese aesthetics, and I feel like

they're kind of trying to cater towards

the anime crowd, the people who love Japan

and anime, you know, the kind of people

who would love games like Sekiro Or that

other game with the ninja samurai guy.

It's like they're trying to incorporate 2

styles. First of all, they're trying to

make the comic book fans happy,

like the traditional Western Batman-style

comic books with the wham, kabam, bazam

sound effects that come up as text.

They're trying to appease to the comic

book fans, and they're also trying to

appease to the Japanese anime otaku

kind of people, and I don't know, it just

feels like a weird mishmash Frankenstein

of a graphic design. And when you're not

mashing your mouse button 1 doing

repetitive hack-and-slash style combat,

you'll find yourself running and jumping,

doing platforming, climbing up ropes,

climbing up chains, jumping up ledges,

jumping over gaps, and then interacting

with a bunch of random objects like

opening doors. Why can't the doors just be

open? Why is it making me press E so I can

open the door? Is this really necessary?

And then there's puzzles. Oh my God, I

hate puzzles in games. Puzzles are not

fun. They're not really that difficult,

but you have to focus a bit and pay some

attention to figure out how to solve the

puzzle. And then it just, it's just a

complete waste of time. And then sometimes

you fail the puzzles and you restart it

from the beginning. It does It doesn't

feel fun. It just feels like a massive

waste of time, and I don't enjoy puzzles.

As for the story, I wasn't really

impressed. It just seems like some kind of

environmental activist kind of storyline

where basically in the game the world has

been ruined by— the world has been

contaminated by toxic stuff and

radioactive waste and all that stuff, and

it has mutated the creatures into some

kind of weird mutants. It just felt like I

was being lectured by that weird Swedish

girl, what's her name, Greta Thunberg,

telling me, oh, we need to save the planet

or else it's gonna get contaminated and

polluted. To be honest, I don't really

care. You know, I just want to play a

video game and not have to worry about the

environmental crisis that our own planet

is facing. And the most irritating thing

about this game that just made me rage

quit is the fact you can't swim. You can

swim a couple of strokes and then he just

sinks and then he dies and then you gotta

restart from the last checkpoint. So

irritating. In conclusion, unfortunately I

cannot recommend this game and I give it a

2.8 out of 10.