Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum

Positive

• This game is completely unhinged, and I mean that as a compliment. [b] THE CORPORATE OVERLORDS OWN YOU AND YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PAY OFF YOU DEBT. GO BE A GOOD PUPPY [/b] DDS is a top down shooter/stealth game in a similar vein to Intravenous. Combat has very little margin for error and feels clunky, with guns that take forever to aim where you want, accuracy so atrocious that you have a hard time hitting stuff right in front of you, and swords can get so big they just get stuck on walls when you try to swing. All of this jank also applies to your enemies, which can create some moments that are both tense and goofy. This clunkiness is deliberate, to incentivize players to engage with the in-depth hacking mechanics and all the crazy character classes. Abilities and passives all have very cool gimmicks and downsides that when combined together can create crazy builds that drastically change how you play the game. You can make a generic run and gun rambo and play the game like Hotline Miami, or you can make a temporal manipulating acrobat and rams into people with like a gazillion speed during your time stop ability, or you can summon a wall piercing mini gun with infinite ammo to commit an unimaginable amount of violence on your poor adversaries. The handcrafted levels are all high quality and can change to accommodate whichever playstyles you choose. Hacking is one of the core gimmicks of DDS and I think this is one of the best implementations of hacking in video games. Security cameras, locked doors, turrets, smart toilets, people, and even bullets flying through the air, etc nearly everything is hackable. You type in commands in real time, breach the local network from the outer layer, slowly work your way up the chain of command to gain access to the entire level's security system. I think this system makes you feel like a hacker even though no coding is involved, and if you spec hard into hacking you can complete levels without even leaving your cozy spawn. Maybe some people are dismissive of the simplistic graphics, but the art style was what drew me into the game in the first place and I just love it so much. The visual, combined with the amazing lofi soundtracks perfectly conveyed the surreal cyberpunk setting of DDS. Surprisingly, the game has a very interesting mystery narrative. The cast of dorks is fun to interact with and it's worth playing the game multiple times just to see the different outcomes of each character's questline. Conclusion: 10/10 game, I'm now 1 gajillion in debt and have to serve as the concierge's puppy for life.

• Man I gotta read Warhound I guess

• ive been restarting everytime i die cause i wanna clear my debt by myself and ive now managed to die right after the tutorial by accidentally shooting myself in my own apartment and also eating some ♥♥♥♥ in my fridge

• :) It's as if I never will leave home. That's my freedom in this game, just where you're at is all you'll ever need anyways.

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