Gearbox designed the game to be similar only in appearance to Hopoo's ROR2, what they have made can only be described as an afront to fun in every regard. It does not respect the fans passion for the original foundational design elements that made ROR2 fun by adding enemies and interactions that lack readability and responsiveness within the world. For instance, if you had gone through all of the trouble of taking a run through the storm and killing the False Son to save an item, and gotten lucky (or used artifact) to unlock CHEF, the only animation you get is the default 3D printer anim, and a wok vibrating before CHEF.mesh gets deleted from the world. CONGRATS! Everything is so inconsistent, there is so much slop mixed in with the otherwise good and interesting ideas. The music, the stage appearance, the effects, the stages, they look great. But this is all intermingled with such unnecessary and unonriginal slop that it borders on true fan-creation, for instance Chronic Expansion is a simple damage buff, there is no nuance or interesting choices to make there about your build: You just take it. False Son suffers the most from this feeling of inconsistency, many of his attacks you can dodge with your eyes closed, but then sometimes he quantum tunnels his sword into your killbox across the stage and puts you in a stat screen. He is not a consistently fun fight because he does not interface with the player/characters in interesting ways, either you stay as far away and heal as much as you can, or you die. Of course the highlights of that fight being the stage 2 transformation, the design, and the stage and world building, but the boss sucks so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad it could suck a basketball through a straw. The DLC is not inherently bad, but is bogged down by a lack of vision, no clear direction from whats already there, and certainly not a competent director or designer that could keep the game's balance straight and maintain what made the game's systems effective in maintaining the player's sense of discovery and fun.

bad

its kinda good ig

best game!!!!!!!!!!!!

literally the best game ever made, probably better than knack 2

yes.