My issue with Furi isn’t that it’s too hard.My issue is that the game is too hard in the wrong ways and, perhaps...

>My issue with Furi isn’t that it’s too hard.My issue is that the game is too hard in the wrong ways and, perhaps, for the wrong reasons.
>Furi offers a series of boss fights of escalating difficulty. There are no levels in between, no disposable cannon fodder enemies. Just you and the bosses. At the outset, the game offers you two difficulty modes: “Furi (recommended)” and the easier “Promenade.” “Furi” isn’t coy about its difficulty: “The game is balanced to be challenging and demanding,” it confidently explains.
>Although “Promenade” isn’t significantly easier than “Furi,” it does offer you more lives. You’re shamed for picking it, which made me wonder why it was included at all. Really, you’re not only shamed for picking it as much as you’re shamed for being the kind of person who would pick it: “Anyone will be able to enjoy the universe and the story, but the game will be much shorter and very easy. Does not unlock trophies, the Furier difficulty and the Speedrun mode.” After you select “Promenade,” Furi warns you again that you’re a wimp: “Are you sure you want to change the difficulty? It will prevent you from feeling the rush of combat." The word “Promenade” is a constant reminder on-screen that you’re not playing the game right.
>Okay, I thought, I get it. This is a hard game for real gamers.
>As I played Furi, I kept thinking of Hyper Light Drifter, another demanding-by-design slash-and-dash game. HLD has similar combat mechanics but appears more indifferent to its own difficulty. Classier, really. When you die in that game, the music doesn’t even pause. The game’s menus don’t denigrate you for failing to meet its standards; it just implicitly asks you to try harder. Furi, by contrast, antagonizes players with its difficulty so unabashedly that I felt like it was consciously and specifically catering to gamers who like to brag about being good at hard games.

Guys, can we please stop salivating over Furi being "hardcore?"

>wow, why is a game made for an audience that doesn't include me?

What the fuck is wrong with vidya journalists? What happened to artistic vision?

>reading women giving their opinions about stuff

>wrong kind of hard

It's a video game, not a cock you whore

Furi isnt hard.
Its just fucking boring when you have to attack the same enemy the same fucking way for 20 minutes.

>you have to attack the same enemy the same fucking way for 20 minutes

So it's like sex? Not that you know about that...

Is the game any good?

Idk was it?

It's a bullet hell bossfighting game.
Character designs by the Afro Samurai guy so the bosses are fairly snazzy.

It's free on PS+ for PS4 right now, so if you happen to have that you can get it for free and form your own opinions.It's nearly unplayable without a controller on PC regardless.

I wish game journalists would commit suicide

I wish more games shamed shitters for picking easy difficulties or using shitty practices like save scumming

>Mobilefags

What happened? How did we go from "game over" now start the fuck back up to boo hoo please coddle me and add a story mode?

>getting upset by difficulty settings
reviewer should just watch a movie

Furi is pretty fucking brutal. You die fast and once you're out of lives you restart the entire fight, which can take like 20 minutes or more.

That being said, there's nothing wrong with certain games being punishing and hard. If you don't want a punishing and hard game, don't play it. Who cares? You don't NEED to complete every game. Furi is clearly designed to be a challenge.

Sounds like she sucks at the game but furi is a shit game so not that I mind

I saw this was free and ignored it.

Where was he shamed though? No trophies? I don't get it. Trophies are shit anyway. They might be a fun target if you profile didn't have 3% on a bunch of shit games you tried.

>demanding-by-design slash-and-dash

>please give all games easier difficulty modes we don't care if it's not thematically appropriate or part of your vision of the game and it's balance
>ok we made this game but added an easier difficulty, it wasn't how we really intended it to be played so we'll let people know if they decide to pick it
>actually difficulty settings aren't good enough now all games should just be easier by default
Is this game worth downloading? Any comparisons to other action games would be nice.

>get reward for doing thing that requires skill.
>don't do the thing that requires skill
>don't get reward
>complain

Why do these people even want achievements in the first place if they don't want to fucking achieve anything? Seriously what's the fucking point?

>Furi
>escalating difficulty


bitch please the tutorial boss is harder than the chick immediately after

>dungeon of the endless
>only modes are "easy" (actually hard) and "too easy" (normal)

>game tells you to git gud
>ignores advice and gets mad instead

>omg the game makes me feel ashamed of changing difficulty! it's mocking me! make it sthaaaaap! (when in reality the game is simply putting a notice saying that you can lose some fun by making everything piss easy)
>OMGZ DA GAEM IS MAKING FUN OF ME FOR DYING WHY CAN'T YOU BE LIKE THIS OTHER GAEM THAT WASN'T THIS ONE, CATER TO ME PLOX
>waah waah I can't git gud!
>written by a woman

Ass-pats. Some people want to win and other people just want to be the winner.
Same for why people cheat at competitions.

Normally I wouldn't care, but it *is* obnoxious when a game swaggers about it's difficulty when it isn't any good.

So is this just an arena-fied 3D Hyper Light Drifter?

The only bullshit part of the game is health draining, if you win a round you steal the enemy bar, if the enemy wins it steals YOUR bar and gets healed, so in a way it kind of ramps up difficulty for people who are having trouble to begin with.

It's even dumber that that though, because cheaters just want to feel better than someone even if they're too pathetic to actually want to be better. These people want the "glory" but don't seem to understand that if they can get the accolades without having to do anything then anyone can get them and they somehow become even more meaningless than they were just when they weren't earned.

the moment I in all seriousness publicly admit that a video game" shamed me", i'd consider some serious change in my life. if you don't want do put effort in, don't play the game

no. just similar colours

how's it bullshit tough? it's only fair

>game says its hard
>teases you for playing on easy
>dont unlock stuff when playing on easy
>hurr must be real game for real gamurz
>other game is easier
>dur what a classy game very good
It's like people don't know how to play video games, god forbid a game not cater to you

This is the weakest viral attempt I've seen in a while. Never even heard of this, and now I'm definitely not getting it.

It's a BOSS RUSH game. BOSS rush. BOSS. Not trash enemy cannon fodder, but BOSS. What did she expect?

got it for "free" thanks to ps+ today. it''s not very good, certainly not worth 30 dollars

>woman complaining that a videogame is too difficult for her in the wrong way

game came out on ps+ today mongoloid

>she
There's the answer.

He summed it up concisely in a simple idiom then you gotta step in and over explain the point while simultaneously adding nothing.

>women
>implying this is a woman
lol

i really wonder what would be the "right" kind of hard for her?
>inb4 cock jokes

>it's a let's pay attention to things we hate thread
Every time

>if i close my eyes, it'll go away

>Literally an article about 'casual-shaming'
Yeah, we get it, game journalism is a joke. You can stop ramming it down our throats now.

>"wrong kind of hard"

okay, I see, are the bosses unfair? Are the controls bad? Please explain.

>"it made me feel bad about playing on a lower difficulty"

>a game you never heard of is talked about
>SHILL TRYING TO GO VIRAL KEK YOUR NOT GETTING MY DOLLARS

You really shouldn't be so pessimistic user-chan

>'casual-shaming' is this term a thing? time to quit gaming is guess

>You can stop ramming it down our throats now.

unless its the right kind of hard bby

>We want the autistic Dark Souls audience who enjoy playing games solely so they can brag to other people about how they beat it
>Pointlessly difficult games are fun because they give me something to feel proud of in my pathetic life

I should remember I'm on Sup Forums where your gamerscore means more than how much you earn.

>it's only fair

It would be fair if you had the same amount of bars as the boss, but they have much more.

Where's the swagger though?

Game looks like shit anyway.

>I felt like it was consciously and specifically catering to gamers who like to brag about being good at hard games.

And this is bad why?

shit, you're right. forgot about that for a minute

>if I shitpost about it on Sup Forums it'll go away

>game comes out
>people make threads
>WOOOOW FUCKING VIRALING GET OUT OF MY VIDEOGAME BOARD LET'S TALK ABOUT OVERWATCH I WANT MERCY TO SIT ON MY FACE REEEEEEEEEEEEE

translation: it doesnt hold my hand and doesnt have the hype of darksouls

dont care about this game eitehr way

>catering to gamers who like to brag about being good at hard games.
so earning an achievement by actually achieving it is bragging now?

No, I really do think the motivation is different. Cheaters want to be better than others without earning it, these people want something else.

OH NO THIS GAME IS SHAMING ME NOOO
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It turns out you've got the perfect moveset to defeat every boss. That seems pretty unfair for them.

it's genitalia don't matter, this is a woman's opinion

>tfw it's carpenter brut soundtrack is coming out in 2 days

>you've got the perfect moveset to defeat every boss

So do they.

>Difficult game is bad
>Gets a free pass because Soulsbabs will defend it with their shallow "git gud" argument all day long

This game is fucking garbage overpriced trash

This guy thinks the phrase "It will prevent you from feeling the rush of combat" is calling him a wimp.

He's probably an idiot. An idiot having a dumb opinion is nothing new.

we know. her reasoning is still beyond retarded

Is the game worth $25?

I want to buy it just to tell the hurr durr games are for everyone crowd to fuck off. $15 or less and I'd jump on it sight unseen, but $25 is a bit much. How many hours of gameplay do you get from it?

Thanks for letting me know user, I don't check the ps+ free game thing enough.

>being bad at a difficult game = game is bad

Phew lad

>Reading comprehension

not in the slightest. grab it for 5 bucks at a sale. unless you're one of the 2 people left on this earth who pays for music. in that case it's worth every cent

then get good you fucking retard or play on promenade which would make it easier for you also learn to master parry like in MGR where parry was the lifeline of the game

>WOAH THIS SJW HATES THIS GAME
>IT MUST MEAN THE GAME IS GOOD

do it goy

Not everyone can be a valuable, productive member of society as objectively determined by their monetary wealth.
Some people simply have to settle for the being the best at fair competitions.

its a boss rush game why would it be worth more than $5 if its not sotc

>mechanics that are too difficult for me are bad mechanics
>why can't every game be artificially difficult like souls games instead of actually difficult?

The music is pretty damn good and the boss battles are actually difficult to some extent which makes it a definite must for people looking for a challenge
And maybe, just maybe user, some people want to actually support the devs work

>The New Berserk Anime Already Outshines The '90s Original
>That’s some damn good anime.

why does this dumb cunt have such shit taste in literally everything?

nobody in this thread even mentioned souls games before you two false flagging retards showed up

That website just attracts retards.

where is the false flag? she's clearly a fan of games that give the illusion of being difficult but is shocked to find she actually sucks dick when it comes to a genuinely difficulty game

>get stuck on any part of any souls game
>summon phantoms to kill everything for you

sure is artificial difficulty

jesus christ. to use "anime" and "smart" in the same sentence is a crime in itself

>hard for the wrong reasons
Many games suffer from this but this is not one of them

>get stuck on any part of any souls game
>summon phantoms to kill everything for you
wouldn't that rather be atrificial easiness? summoning tends to make the game easier, not harder. also, where did you get the impression that she likes souls?

The problem with Furi is it's half a fucking game.

The mechanics are interesting but it's missing the cannon-fodder fights that every other action game has.

An action game is structured like a class; the levels are lectures, teaching you new things and asking you to hone your skills. The boss fights are tests; they demand you recapitulate everything you've learned and demonstrate your mastery.

An action game that's all boss fight is like a class that's all test; you should be EXPECTING the player to fail. How else will they learn, if not through failure? There's never been any training for them.

I know that the Git Gud meme is something Sup Forums loves but one of the staples of good game design is crafting a difficulty curve intelligently; teaching the player systems and rules BEFORE expecting him to know them, and ratcheting up expectations of mastery in time with his (expected) capacity to develop it in the first place.

Furi seems to suffer from one of the worst game design red flags of all, and ironically it's one that HLD also suffered from, which is that the game's creators can't stomp the absolute piss out of it whenever they play. If you spend years manually crafting the ins and outs of every fight, playing the game shouldn't be an engaging challege for YOU, it should be a cakewalk. You should already know what the player has yet to learn and have the mastery the player has yet to develop, and the fights should be a breeze

Furi feels like the devs balanced the challenge around their own skill level, and it never occurred to them to include things that would help get the player TO that level. That's how you design NG++, NSIC type shit, not a core gameplay experience.

Reminder

Yes. Heres one for you too ser.
:^)

>fromdrone is a brainless idiot with no reading comprehension or the ability to think critically

just as expected, really.

you're still the only one mentioning souls. and yes, i've read that last part wrong.you still owe me an answer on the difficulty question tough before needlessly resorting to insults and greentext

I only played partway through the second boss (got my shit pushed in) and it doesn't seem that hard so far. I mean it's challenging but not "fuck this game" challenging, just "I really need to get better at this" challenging.

Kinda hate the slow, slow, boring slogs between each battle though.

I really loved how the easiest difficulty on the menu said you can't unlock higher difficulties or even achievements by playing it. Games, especially ones like this, should punish you for not being willing to get better at them and relying on the path of least resistance. I suck at bayonetta and when I see bronze or even silver trophies after a level I don't think "I earned this with my hard work" I think "well fuck I really should have done better there."

But parrying exists blogger-kun
and Health can be gained from bullets and parrying correcting dumbfuck-kun
kill yourself nigger get good my 16 year old brother hasn't died once on it and he's on the 4th boss already in Furi difficulty you faggots need to git gud

>game makes fun of her for choosing ez mode
>waaah it's shaming me, fuck you this game is shit
Top tier review

>you're still the only one mentioning souls

of course I am you fucking retard? did anyone else other than you claim otherwise?

lmao literally kill yourself my dude and maybe check out a dictionary/thesaurus combo while you're in hell

>indie game
>some dumb blog
>trying to trigger Sup Forums
This is definitely stealth marketing.

remember that time someone complained in a game review about a game's ending and the dev told them "if you played on normal you'd have gotten the real ending" and they just removed that part from the review instead of acknowledging that they were a total scrub?

>Hard for the wrong reasons
>Doesn't explain the reasons
>Could have been infinite stun-locks, unavoidable attacks, badly telegraphed one hit kills or any examples of bad game design
>Just says it shames you for choosing easy mode

>game encourages you to try harder difficulties
>BUT THIS IS ALL THE """"""""REAL""""""""" GAMER'S FAULT BECAUSE THEY CAN BRAG ABOUT BEING ABLE TO OVERCOME THE HARDER DIFFICULTIES

>uh-oh another video game being discussed on Sup Forums that I never heard of must be marketing
drink bleach you stupid cunt and stream it so I can watch your neckbeard NEET autistic ass suffer
Prokaryotes have more purpose in this world than you do