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I gave this game the best chance I could and...yeah, it's okay, but it really flops the landing in a lot of places. Please note, this review is subjective to my opinions, a bisexual male who has pleeeenty of LGBT friends out there.
The good:
-Decently tight controls! Not Hollow Knight, but I have definitely seen/played worse.
-The character animations are really something to see, though I am somewhat disquieted by how almost fetishistic it can really get with some of the kills.
-Music's decent too. Not sure I'd get the soundtrack, even if it was available, but its far from bad.
The bland:
-This game has taken ideas/inspiration from a LOT of other games. Hollow Knight, Metroid Dread, and a bunch of other MVs, but I also see hints of Battletoads (of all things).
-Map design isn't great. There's quite a few weird twists and turns and that last area can eff right off since it really looks like the designers weren't sure how to make the final level difficult or engaging beyond "Instant death spike traps everywhere".
-The Story. It starts off strong but quickly loses steam (coincidentally alongside the voice acting disappearing altogether) and kind of just lands with a weak thud at the end. I feel no shame spoiling this: the ending is setting up for a sequel or a DLC to wrap things up and I honestly do not care enough to want to try. I am tired of this game. Bored and tired.
The bad:
-Bugs everywhere. Map pieces that were explored suddenly NOT being explored/revealed. Audio glitches happening (ride the nitro bunny bike from one zone to the next; hope you enjoy motorcycle engine revving permanently until you shut the game off!). Graphical errors (targeting overlay for various powers disappears at random times with no real reason present). This game is just...not quite finished yet.
-The 'humor'. Look, this is a game some have said is irreverent, satire, or is reveling in its debauchery. No, it really isn't. Satire stops the flow and points out when its doing trope-ish things. This game doesn't do that. It both tries and tries not to take itself seriously and we, the player, end up with severe tonal whiplash constantly. The constant raging lesbian jokes, the horrendous hidden Chozo statue that has a limp phallus for a head, the inexplicable pastiche cameo of Toby Fox that makes him look like an utterly moronic idiot, it's all so mean-spirited and smacks of someone trying way way WAY too hard to make us laugh.
I never once laughed in this game. I snorted with disdain a lot. Because the humor is that f***ing bad. It reeks of highschoolers who find out more swear words than they knew before upon their first freshman day and thus go around swearing constantly. Penis and boob drawings everywhere. Your sidekick being your literal crotch.
This game does not empower LGBT culture. I don't know if I can say that it belittles it, but it is certainly not an empowerment of it.
Look, Subcult Joint, if you're reading this? Please. Stop and reflect for a moment. You have made a competent metroidvania and yes, it's pretty easy to see where and how you peeked off of your peers' test sheets. That's fine! But for the love of Samus, stop it with the lameassed humor. It just isn't funny. Rethink your strategy, decide if you want to play it legit or to ham it up. Don't try to do both. You aren't making lesbians look stronger here by slapping a talking vagina onto the main character. You really aren't making her look strong by having her never get any better or change her overall raging b***ch persona. You REALLY aren't making us laugh with the d*ck and vagina jokes. Grow up. Be better than this. I would love to see another game from you with more focus, more maturity.
As it is, I cannot recommend this game. Not at full price, not even at half. I'm sorry, Subcult Joint, but you flopped it hard at the end. I do not want to play this game again, I do not want to play its DLC/sequel. Not unless you all have a serious talk about what mature humor really means. Until you grow up, I won't play it anymore.