Coffee Crisis

“The game features no proper level design or game/story flow/plot, as they opted to try to use samey repetitive procgen algorithms as a substitute for adding such content to the game, to avoid doing the important job of level/map design.”

“Boring, enemies have too much health, repeats same thing each level, story makes no sense, dialogue and cut scenes make no sense... it's not even just plot holes and suspension of disbelief; it's like it literally makes no sense as if things are missing.”

“The plot is nonsensical, which is intentional, but it's also just plain bad.”

“A choice was made to use obsolete, decades-old retro pixel 'art' as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics.”

“While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality.”

“It is a difficult game even, and the frequent and sudden changes of art style make it even harder, one of which almost makes it impossible to visualize the levels and opponents.”

“The problem is the gameplay: hordes of enemies that cannot be stopped, which force you to jump around without understanding anything, without any tactics.”

“Before we get into the usual technical defects, the gameplay itself is also flawed, with a very bad lack of polish, clunkiness, bugginess, and so on.”

“This is not the only problem the game has; there is also a very annoying lag with the main character's attacks which makes the gameplay even more punishing. Enemies' hitboxes seem to fail even when in front of them, and the attack range is very short, forcing you to stay really close to the enemies. Considering that 70% of the enemies have ranged attacks, it makes things even worse. It feels like the developers really wanted you to get frustrated easily, and that is pretty much what happens.”

“So the game seems short and with little practical replay value.”

“A permadeath playthrough on a higher difficulty should be significantly longer (although possible in 40 minutes, if the achievements are to be believed), and the modifiers add some decent replay value.”

“The amount of replayability through the mutators makes it worth the price and a nice game to have in your collection.”

“That's reinforced by a very weak, buggy, and lackluster technical implementation in this lazy console port.”

“However, when I played, it was buggy; it would just stop working, not accepting votes from viewers, and there was little explanation as to what each one did, so chat was left confused.”

“There was also a minor bug where the first hit on a boss would always take out about a quarter of its health bar, with subsequent hits doing a normal amount of damage - nothing huge, and there were no other glitches as far as I could tell.”

“The graphics and atmosphere are more than fine, apart from some effects that distort the screen or alter the colors just to annoy the player.”

“The devs clearly love death metal, because the soundtrack is pretty much metal riff after metal riff, which is great. The whole game breathes metal, from the baristas to the atmosphere of concerts, music, and metalheads. However, most of the time, the metal music makes it difficult to listen to the rest of the audio sounds; just tweak the sound options and you are all set.”

“All the audio is crisp and helps deliver the experience and atmosphere the game is striving for.”