Biomutant: Who Is This For?

[@ErrrorWayz]

I was so hyped for this game and it was.... ok.

[@worldstarmb]

to be fair we knew what this was when it was announced. there was no reason to actually buy this.

[@ErrrorWayz]

@@worldstarmb If I remember correctly the original idea sounded absolutely brilliant - you could basically evolve a mutant on the fly to create a fully tailored mutant with bespoke powers. What we got, again if I remember correctly, was points in "punchy punchy" or "shooty shooty". I still played about 8 hours or so, it, was... ok

[@caliperez725]

I enjoyed it, beat it 2.7 times..

[@ErrrorWayz]

@@caliperez725 yep not bad but just not quite as advertised. 2.7 is very specific what happened to the last 0.3? 😀

[@stunytsuR]

Same. I couldn't even put the time in to beat it. I got bored

[@Vortexnicholas]

It’s proof not every game needs to be an open world or have weird rpg elements in it. Biomutant would’ve been better if it was like a ratchet and clank linear style smaller levels , a more focused non rpg game.

[@yourtrunkrattles4398]

Nah thats boring

[@jonholla6463]

We've already played ratchet and clank as well as copies they shouldn't have done that, they should have taken longer to develop it and fully flesh out everything

[@AlphaGarg]

braindead take

[@MadMadNomad]

The open world and the looting/crafting are literally the ONLY parts that (Sort of) work! Linear levels won't fix bad combat, bad story and boring characters, or awkward progression and meaningless skill unlocks. In fact, a linear Rachet and Clank-style game practically DEMANDS tight combat and carefully escalated challenge, balanced with new weapons or abilities that are both effective and fun to use. What part of this game suggests anyone involved could pull THAT off? Though I absolutely agree that the game needed more focus. Cutting the slap-dash faction and morality systems would've been a good start. This one might've worked better as an open world survival/craft-em-up, with minimal story, fewer NPCs and formal quests, and more open-ended gameplay in general. Although, Survival/crafting usually implies some level of base-building, and if those mechanics got the same level of polish everything else did, well...they probably shouldn't try to add anything MORE to this mess. But the colorful kung-fu animal post-apocalypse, the weapon and armor crafting, and the idea of being a little racoon-mutant loot goblin... all that stuff had potential. Once I got past the painfully slow tutorial and story set-up, when they finally took the rails off and let me do whatever I wanted, I had a reasonably good time. Just exploring ruins and slapping together ridiculous weapons out of random junk I found. The "zones" or bosses you need special gear or vehicles for weren't a bad idea, but it sucks that once you got the suit for one, the quests for all the others played out more or less the same. It would've been better if you just had to scavenge and craft items until you made something with sufficient resistances. Or if the parts and blueprints for the vehicles were scattered all over the map, instead of being tied to a single fetch quest from a designated quest giver. Basically, I think the game needed more focus mechanically (Just do a couple of things that you know you can do reasonably well, scale back on that ambition) and LESS focus narratively (Didn't need a story, and the attempts to graft one on are clumsy as hell.) Just let me run around being a mutant rat Mad Max, looting the remnants of the old world to fight the goofy-ass monsters of the new one.

[@Sturmensky]

I'd say either go with what you said, or focus on a tighter, more linear story-driven experience. Or, better yet, both. I remember finding the intro up until the end of encountering your old home to be the most engaging part of the game. The moment it shifted to broad open world, the amount of raw filler became... painfully obvious.

[@partymantis3421]

I was so hyped for this thing, playing as a mutant rat in a post-apocalypse overtaken by nature? sign me up! But with the clashing tone of kiddy vs gritty, comic word effects vs the "realistic"artstyle, simplistic angel/demon on your shoulder choices & the narrator "translating" the critterfolk language yet still uses words like "mooma & poopsy" , (just say mom & dad what are you doing!) it just kept piling up. & you describing it as a:"story driven game without the story" summes it up pretty well. Great vid man, keap it up

[@grimkitten8254]

yeah this overly childlish infantilizing language is the biggest thing making everything else super lame and frustrating not that some things like the elvis guy atleast not being nowhere near what everyone else i suppose to look like and that makes it very uncohesive but the hyperrealistic overall look of other creatures could work if it wasnt paired with such infantilizing language.

[@vulksi]

Have you ever wondered what your palicoes were up to before they met you in monster hunter, this game explains it.

[@Banilla468]

I was having a lot of fun with this game. Learned pretty quickly that it was mid, but the design was charming, and it was stylized in some ways. I got it for free and I was bored. The RPG level-up system was where my interest lied. Basically, I crunched the numbers and realized I could be absolutely broken in terms of DPS by just putting all of my points into luck. Played for about 10-15 hours, putting every. single. level-up into my luck stat. Then I decided it was time to dive into the armor creation system. I had avoided it because it looked fucking stupid, just attaching a rivet to my shoulder jutting out perpendicular to my body, but hey, Some of the armor upgrades let me boost my luck. That's my whole prerogative. Tried adding a piece of luck-boosting armor to my outfit. Reset my luck stat to what it was at level one. Stayed gone when I took it off. Uninstalled the game right then and there.

[@joshevertonyt]

Dear lord that is painful, that would turn anyone off

[@feloniuspunk7078]

Wowwwwww hell no. Send the CEO to prison. Right now

[@Ahmed-wd1xi]

That is absolutely bonkers

[@Banilla468]

Been thinking about this comment I left here a while back. Really drives home how important Focus is to game development. I was able to put up with so much 🐂 💩 to play this game. And, like, it was downright enjoyable at times! I don’t think there’s any version of this game that was **good** but people absolutely die by bad games all the time. Fallout New Vegas barely runs, even after patches and everything, but it knew what it wanted to be and really locked in on that vision. Bio mutant could have been a cult classic if they just cut back like 80% and made it more of a dungeon crawler with a passable-enough story and cut out all the sub-systems. No classes, let the players level up an attribute every level, and let them unlock new abilities based on their attributes every other level. Rewarding me putting everything into luck by making my ultimate give everyone around me random effects in the spirit of d&d wild magic would have been such a fantastic reward for engaging in the game

[@taylororourke2525]

@@Banilla468I was gonna say! It was probably because your new armor didn’t have all the fancy doodads your old armor did, so once you moved them over it would rock! I’m glad you enjoyed the game too, it was an extremely 🤷‍♀️ game that I’m glad I played lol.

[@bean9786]

3:08 'I know this might sound like a nit-pick' no no, that's actually fucking agregious. Even as you were explaining it beat for beat I was struggling to figure out what the fuck I was looking at. I'm 3 minutes into this video and I'm already frustrated - how would this NOT get spotted by QA testers??? or even the devs trying to play their own game????

[@Ahmed-wd1xi]

Literally like professionals made this? And it got past QA? And development? And the game testers? And literally anyone who played the first 3 minutes of the game???

[@xTxCxMx]

I guarantee you QA spotted this. You'd be astounded at the sort of things devs can handwave away as "low priority" until it's too late.

[@AllfatherBlack]

You are failing to understand how it works. There's not a single bug you found that QA didn't find. Not even one. No matter how hard you try, you didn't ever do that, not even once. By a game's release the bug database will have hundreds maybe even thousands of bugs in various states of unresolved limbo. QA knows. The bug was reported, and the dev team decided not to fix it. No other possibility exists.

[@bean9786]

@@AllfatherBlack You're right, of course - I can't figure out if that makes it worse or better. I can't imagine thinking it isn't a big deal, but it had to have been knocked down a priority list at some point over other things. I wonder if that means there were even worse issues that were more pressing, or if it means that the dev team genuinely thought it was readable

[@WobblesandBean]

Hi, I have worked in video game QA, and I can tell you with certainty: they did see it. But the devs likely didn't bother to fix it. Visual bugs like that are typically low priority, whereas things like crashing and soft locks are low priority. The closer a game gets to launch date, the now bugs get flagged as "won't fix" by the devs. As for why they never patched it post launch, beats the hell outta me.

[@littlebeasty5839]

bro the trailer for this game looked rad as hell, i was sadden to see the "finish" product.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

Saddened* finished* learn grammar before you comment again

[@RoughnutOHoulihan]

​@@ramrodbldm9876🤓

[@phillipmitchell2254]

I wish they'd finished it. Also it needs to be said that THQ had Experiment 101 rush the shit outta this game and it missed a lot of its promised content as a result.

[@HL3AlcAida]

But it was also the devolpers fault because Bio Mutant was never meant to be that "big" and open world. Thats really sad if they had more time or experienced staff they could have made a new bazo kazooie.

[@phillipmitchell2254]

@@HL3AlcAida I keep holding out that the E101 guys would make an unofficial patch for it but I'm pretty sure THQ Nordic killed the team and parted them out to work on other games.

[@MadMadNomad]

I kinda wish someone would take another crack at some of these ideas, 'cause they had potential. Not that "Narrator does all the dialogue" bit, though. Whoever suggested that shit shoulda gotten a long, silent side-eye from the team, and never brought it up again.

[@BrightBeard]

Wait, let's not change the past here. I remember seeing this game on my first Gamescom and not entering the queue, because you know, 3 hour queue for 20 minutes of gameplay. But the next time I saw it was THREE years later on the GAMESCOM. And the friends that played it the first time there, told me it was the exact demo, just with 5 minutes more for the character creation. This game was an issue for the publisher AND the developer. If someone told me "hey my game is so far in development, that we are confident we can let some people play it." And then don't finish it in 3 years I would push too. Btw bio mutant released 2 years later, after I played it on gamescom. So from first playable to actual release we have 5 years.

[@Lampoluke]

They announced the game in 2016 or something

[@mahmoodalmahmood7014]

Ps2 movie licensed game style

[@joshevertonyt]

So accurate

[@MadMadNomad]

The even more pointless thing about the "Morality" system is that it's super easy to cheat. Aside from the prisoner rescue stuff, you get "good" and "evil" points when you capture small animals with your net, and can either "Pet" them, or kill them. I simply maxed out my "Good" points through normal gameplay, by just choosing NOT to be a dick for no reason. Once I'd unlocked all the "Good" powers, I then caught and killed a bunch of small animals to get all the "Evil" ones. And then turned my "Aura" back to "Good" using the same method (Catching and petting them instead). I retained access to both sets of powers afterwards, meaning there was literally no downside to doing this. Well, other than time wasted...and that the fact that almost none of the powers were worth it. That's not a "half-baked" system, that's just straight up RAW.

[@rusteddenial453]

Ya but also the fact you wasted all that time doing that mate when u could have gone outside take up painting maybe go to the gym

[@cherry9787]

​@@rusteddenial453 This cheese takes 2 minutes

[@friendlyneighbor5345]

​@@rusteddenial453why are you commenting on KZbin? You could have been working out

[@eloverlord96]

@@rusteddenial453 Why aren't you there instead of being here commenting¿? 🤦‍♂

[@MrLildru870]

I 100% completed it. I don't know why, but my smooth monkey brain thoroughly enjoyed it. I played exclusively played melee.

[@MadMadNomad]

Me too. I mean, I took the option to skip the rest of the Tribal Faction nonsense, but I fully explored the map, did all the side quests, got all the vehicles/mounts, did all the stupid music puzzles, etc. It lets you make a giant sword out of a piano, and it goes "Plonk!" whenever you hit someone. That's gotta count for something.

[@hedgy_wedgy69]

I'm only 4 1/2 hours into the game... Its not bad, but it could be better honestly... I still enjoy this game tho

[@SugarFree91]

It's okay to like stuff.

[@offworlder2390]

The game has a lot of “soul” in that it has a very stylistic and unique approach to the art direction and gameplay and story and world but it just didn’t come together as a good gameplay experience. It felt like it should have been fun but it just kinda wasn’t as awesome as I hoped.

[@YangBalanceYin]

You can like what you want and a 6 or 7 out of 10 can still be just fine. People make more money to trash than to praise. The game is fine. Not good. Not bad. Just fine. I mean christ... we're whining about the aesthetic of the damn ui now...

[@TheLeetCasualGamer]

I got this for $7 and still had buyers remorse. It felt like a car trunk stuffed with ideas that were popular at the time. Insignificant choices trying to be an old Bioware game. Gunplay as Ratchet and Clank were making a comeback. RPG open world mechanics like Elders Scrolls. The conquering bases felt it resembled Ghost of Tsushima taking back towns from Mongols. Crafting from survival open world like Fallout. Four major fights that serve as the ultimate goal, wooo, wonder where I heard that one. Not that these ideas are bad and you're allowed to use things that worked before, but it causes a lack of focus in design. Another very notorious example of this is Duke Nukem Forever. No idenity, too many cooks in the kitchen taking off of ideas popular at the time. Only difference is that Biomutant couldn't cook where Duke hit world record of development time and burned the kitchen.

[@diegeticfridge9167]

Played this game high as the clouds and loved it, don’t remember a thing, but I remember having fun

[@Michael-cb3uw]

Definitely looks like weed would improve and make the game worthwhile, solely on the fact that cannabis is awesome

[@johnconnor5157]

In my opinion, i think biomutant is the game for those who want to play biomutant.

[@joshevertonyt]

Hard to argue, really

[@maxnum1sgameclub263]

True xD

[@flobbergassy]

Nailed it

[@HistoryNerd129]

I am one of those people, and I agree.

[@bigmclargehuge8219]

Biomutant was a lot of fun for me!* *When I wasn't playing the storyline and was instead just running around in the world. I've told multiple people I really enjoyed about half of my time with this game.

[@charlii_the_angel]

I literally stopped in my tracks when you said the sound came from the controller 😮?! Like are you kidding me?! Someone made that decision, other people agreed with it, and then someone coded it in, and...and they released it into the wild . Holy shit!

[@joshevertonyt]

Actually baffling hey, I know that's a PS5 only issue, but it blew me away. I knew I was in for a treat from that moment on

[@ramrodbldm9876]

You like balans wonderland, and released that ug picture into the wild. I literally stopped in my tracks that you had the audacity to talk about anything negatively looking the way you do 😂. You can take dumb poses all you want, the end result will always be: 🐷🐖🤓🐽 lmao

[@thesecutor]

I just wish they had leaned into any one thing instead of just kinda going halfway with everything. The narrator is supposed to make this feel like a documentary but they never actually play around with that. As you said the creatures all look like cheap plushes so why didn’t they lean into it and have the weapons and environment look like toys and plush blankets or pillows. There are so many directions this could be taken in but everything is so one note and benign, the problem is though to take it in any direction you just have to axe other parts but it’s certainly preferable to having no real style.

[@joshevertonyt]

That is a great point, better to have a polarising style than none, but yeah, so much is "throw it at the wall and see what sticks"

[@arcticafrostbite617]

I remember the trailers making the game look so exciting. and then when i finally got my hands on it. it went "is this a soulslike?" i got like half way done with the war-band shit and was like "uh?"

[@emalinedickinson7492]

680 subscribers. Well 681. Well-scripted, well-voiced, and with poignant direction, I think this was very excellent.

[@joshevertonyt]

Thank you so much!

[@Mimblesthefan]

They made some wonderful character designs and settings. It is apocalyptic but still has a cozy charm to it. I forgot about it until I heard it was coming to switch recently.. still decided against it the second time around.

[@Heffy_Boi]

By no means do I think Biomutant is exceptional (in fact, the story was genuinely as simple as it gets) but it strangely gave me a rare feeling of wanting to get to the end of my long work days to dive back in for hours upon hours. Everything you've critiqued is very much accurate, that much is clear to me but it still holds a special place in my heart, if for no other reason than it being a pleasant distraction from one of the most unpleasant times in recent memory.

[@dootmarine1140]

I think that just shows how deeply flawed a game can be, and still be a beloved game to some people, and I personally find that very interesting.

[@Heffy_Boi]

@@dootmarine1140 I'm the kinda guy who gravitates to underdog releases; be it games or otherwise. There's something so captivating to me about giving games that most don't give a 2nd thought to a chance and I'll be real, they always end up being far more memorable to me than even the most polished critical darlings available.

[@gfr237]

I saw advertisements for this game on steam when it first came out then completely forgot about its existence until the algorithm sent this video my way

[@wishes_._]

I actually really liked biomutant, and I feel like I am the only one

[@wolfuii4171]

I like it too but….yeah let’s be real this game objectively is janky, clunky, broken, and ultra mid. This game needs to be cooked more before it got released. But subjectively to me 7/10

[@Ahmed-wd1xi]

Honestly that's fine. I'm glad you had fun with it. Just because we criticize a video game doesn't mean we criticize the people playing it, and I wouldn't want anyone to not have fun with something I happened to not have fun with.

[@Jadebones]

I like it. I still need to finish it though.... Maybe sometime when my internet is down, I'll play my disc games...

[@kevinars627]

I mean, is not bad is just.... Okay

[@zompreacher]

Started playing this game in Early Access and it had a very distinct "unfinished vibe". Clearly that never went away and you articulate very well the flaws and issues. Also it seems you found your viral hit recipe- longform deep dive reviews on obscure games everyone wanted to play but no one really finished. At least that's why I clicked on it - I have biomutant on my steam account and I've had it for YEARS and I've always said I'll pick it back up but never did. Thankfully this video is saving me the time. Also, you might find more things to review on steam since consoles have less games so they all individually get more attention in general. Please keep up the good work this was really good!

[@joshevertonyt]

Thanks mate! Appreciate the encouragement, and yeah it was such a slog to be honest.

[@ElectroBooze]

I was watching one of my friends on Twitch play. He asked me if I had played it yet. I said yes. He asked me how I liked it. I said that I didn’t really like it and that it wasn’t my type of game. He told me “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” How does one not know what they’re talking about when saying they didn’t like something and that’s it?

[@duen-wayneogilvie5223]

1:18 HE SAID THE TITLE IN THE VIDEO!!

[@darianstarfrog]

Its sad, i love how it looks

[@Blexmer1]

The alignment system is what made this game one of the only games I've asked to refund a game on steam. It was so shallow and after the first main choice outside of the tutorial it showed it was gonna continue. Good review, thanks for the breakdown and retrospective.

[@bringbackpluto4134]

for less than 10 dollars, I'd say you got a solid experience

[@Skarwind]

I was so upset with it. It was like a hate beat for me. Just had to finish it cause I got it at full price. The gameplay was okay but I just had no love for the story or the locations.

[@WobblesandBean]

I got my hopes up that "unstoppable duck" was an actual, literal duck.

[@joshevertonyt]

Would have made me use it a lot more

[@xcom54]

Yes, IMO it's quite obvious the dev of this game got way too ambitious, and probably had a lot of project creeps...

[@dootmarine1140]

I seem to remember that their way of developing was something like: Monday, get an idea. Tuesday-thursday, develop a demo of the idea. Friday, test the idea. And then if idea was good, they'd implement it into the game. It explains why there's so much contradicting concepts and mechanics all overlapping.

[@Hatecrewdethrol]

"I found it for less than $10" so many unplayed games in my steam library because of this exact reason

[@a.dackee9737]

When I went into GameStop 3ish years ago I went in looking for kena bridge of spirits, saw bio mutant and thought “oh this looks cool” bad idea

[@HL3AlcAida]

Sadly Kena never released physical :( At forst i thougt it would be an adventure but it was Darksouls Pixar edition ^^ I hope the devs will do a second game

[@Cunaverse]

This is an incredibly well made video and very clear points throughout, thank you for sharing perspective

[@joshevertonyt]

Thanks mate, appreciate it!

[@jnoirj3124]

Guns were completely overpowered during the games release. I think they nerfed them eventually, but I still believe they are overpowered simply because they have infinite ammo.

[@wolfuii4171]

They nerfed them? I’m still playing this game( almost done with it) and the guns are best weapons to use in the game, the melee attacks sucks until you get to the third of the game where you have the best stats with it( and even then their not as good as the gun unless you do the whole juggling attacks when you parry them but I don’t use that as much as before) and the Ki powers are 💩. The only good ones are the ones you transverse with( the mushroom and the levitation) maybe because my specialty is with dead eye and not the others ones but still the guns are op. They ether are lying or they got rid 1% of the damage you would usually have before the nerf.

[@GoreGutztheImpaler]

Before watching: Not for me. However I can tell by the title of this video, the thumbnail, and the video length. That this video is for me.

[@xRaoriex]

Thank you for helping me clean my wishlist

[@hotrodmercury3941]

This game like most modern games suffers from what I call "Cool Guy Syndrome" It looks cool, the graphics, the box art, the visuals, the way the world is set up. You slowly build this idea in your head, it's cool. Just like someone you would perceive as cool. That idea, is in reality a totally different game than what you expect. Then you finally get it, load it up and hit play. It's not what you thought it was. Just like how if you were to hang up with that Cool Guy and find out...he's not really all that cool. He's boring, maybe just downright disgusting, maybe he doesn't handle criticism well at all and you feel you wasted your time. So many games, hyping themselves up as the Cool Guy, then ended up not being cool at all.

[@Max_Gooch]

Yeah, I saw this at PAX East when it was revealed. I was intrigued by what I played then, but found the controls super floaty and unsatisfying. Sound and animations sounded and looked pretty budget. The combat wasn’t super great, but it wasn’t bad. On top of that, it felt too Borderlandsy to me. Just tried way too hard to be funny. But hey, it was prerelease. Got to play it for free on PS Plus years later and regretted the thirty minutes I spent on it. I don’t usually try to look for things to hate in a game, and I try to keep an open mind. But man, this was such a 5/10 experience through and through. There was definitely some improvement in all the areas I mentioned before, but it was still a mess. Nothing in the final product felt like it belonged with any other part. Just felt like an overall lack of polish on top of straight up strange design decisions. And the running still doesn’t match up with the animation on screen 😂 It had been five years since I played that prerelease build. What happened?

[@Playitforthenarrative]

I liked this game. The art was amazing. Felt like a Zelda game.

[@WeirdAmerica219]

For what it was I liked it. The combat feed back would’ve been dope.

[@LimpNoodle420]

I tried out this game last summer having no idea what it was, needless to say I never actually finished it

[@TheRedGuy1990]

Honestly, while i havent FINISHED the game, I do enjoy it. It seems like thematically its geared towards children and teaching them about being eco-friendly. I enjoy the silly names they give things. However, it CAN be repeatative with all of the pieces you need to collect. It reminds me a little bit of Fur Fighters on PS2.

[@bigwaveyyy626]

I mean… I really enjoyed it..

[@Isaac_Ealey]

I enjoyed this game, because I made up practically all the story for myself.

[@eternalifyshorts]

dude you are so underrated

[@joshevertonyt]

Thank you so much, I try to out as much time and effort in as I can

[@BADeByrd]

I was shocked but then not surrpised to find out that the guy who made this also made Drake and the 99 Dragons...

[@adeerinasuit]

I enjoyed this game much more than I expected to when I played it a few years ago. The game is for me that's who it's for Me and me alone

[@WobblesandBean]

I had to double check your sub count, because I thought I was watching a channel with a much higher count. You're really good dude, and massively underrated. Subbed!

[@joshevertonyt]

Thanks mate, really appreciate it! Hope you enjoy the future content

[@luchokzk242]

experiment 101 was formed with experience developers from big companies, so it wasn´t their first game development

[@Bansmax]

A really enjoyable watch! More game reviews please!

[@joshevertonyt]

Thanks man, had a good time doing it so more to come!

[@Ikarusu]

The game looks absolutely unpleasing, the characters seem to be aiming to have a stylized look but all environment and graphics are like those Ocarina of Time remakes on unreal with the abuse of blur, rimlight, reflections, etc, everything looks like plastic and smudgy because it's so reflective, the lightning looks so unfitting most time with some places looking too dark or too bright probably due to the day and night system, the UIs are trying to have a comic book vibe which doesn't fit the banjo vibe of the game and fails on itself by not looking like a comic at all during the dialogue boxes.

[@yipperdeyip]

Yeah, got the game on PS plus, but not even gonna bother for free. I value my time more and more against these mediocre games nowadays. Ubisoft is the biggest culprit of mediocre games

[@asturias0267]

Exploration for exploration sake was my main driver when playing the game. The narrator and story were very goofy, childish, and grating, but I did mostly enjoy poking around the world for secrets and loot. Its been a long time since I played, so I can't remember specifics, but I remember the clothing system kinda sucking. I also started as a psyker and then the psychic abilites ended up being more of a secondary ability since the damage sucked. The ice power was pretty useful though for preventing enemies from hitting you. All in all, the game wasn't good enough to finish. I had some hours of fun and a lot of hours of "ehh".

[@ericlamb4501]

I remember when this was in development and they announced it, it was actually genuinely cool looking. I think a lot of other people have already said it, but it got feature creeped to hell and back, and all the features that did make it into the game are really underbaked, at least compared to what was actually promised.

[@roykalager2360]

I wanted this game. It suck that it didn't release well.

[@atasukecetin90]

I giant tutorial that never ends describes it pretty well

[@diobrando5896]

I got biomutant for free. I think it's a good game when the internet goes out long periods

[@___AVARICE___]

Thats the free effect tbh. Ive gotten many games on psplus that people have said are mid or bad that ive thoroughly enjoyed since i didnt have to pay or have expectations

[@Manglet762]

......neither of your arguments are making this game sound good. "It's enjoyable when other games you like can't be played or you barely expect anything and don't have to buy it".

[@Floopiss]

th guns have infinite ammo. you can literally just shoot the enemy until it’s dead. all you have to do is avoid being hit. there’s no reason to even have a melee weapon lol

[@demgutts]

Weak ass guns and they don't get better until later, having fun pew pewing

[@maxnum1sgameclub263]

Depends if you know the crafting system (wich is weird) you can make a truly op gun or you can waste the best parts possible. And you have the in combat reloading wich can be extremely slow.

[@MadMadNomad]

Yeah, my problem was that I ended up finding some parts and making a stupidly powerful gun fairly early in the game, and there was never a reason to use anything else. Which sucked a lot of the fun out of exploring and looting, because nothing I found was better than what I already had.

[@Triggermangravy]

I wish ammo was limited

[@nakishodoglitterfox]

I enjoyed it. I really did.

[@Mimblesthefan]

Maybe I'm assuming too much but maybe the game would have been better off NOT being open world.

[@joshevertonyt]

Couldn't agree more

[@kennynyc1555]

i like the dialog , keeps you into the game

[@deliriouszora]

This is a great review, but don't let it distract you from the fact that there's a chance Mr house would find this game very nostalgic.

[@TheRealKjay]

This game could've been a gem had it been a combination of something like Conkers bad fur day mixed with Devil may cry

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

I remember playing this game doing everything I can and to be honest the story made no sense. Why are we wasting going around the world to do things when your main story is about capturing some guy out of vengeance in the end? They just threw everything in that game. Thay is pretty much it.

[@monsutanokage9639]

At the end, true evil was a narrator. It’s He, who knows everything and pulls the strings of story via “cutscenes” and by a lack of “choice” ^_^

[@celoteck]

Hey man really good video. Also really pleasant voice!

[@HistoryNerd129]

Me. Biomutant is for me.

[@mlao1333]

I hope you had fun then

[@RH-beefhemoth]

It’s the perfect starter action RPGs for youths new to gaming

[@NandolfBlockbuster]

But Fable exists? This is definitely not the correct game to introduce someone new to the genre, unless you want to overwhelm them. And the story isn't interesting enough to engage someone that doesn't have much interest in the RPG mechanics. Fable is way simpler, while still retaining the meat of the action RPG genre (it even affords itself a morality system), while having a compelling and easy to understand story. Fable is what Biomutant wanted to be.

[@TheTideKing004]

​@NandolfBlockbuster, except fable, isn't as widely available to everyone. It's locked behind a console choice.

[@NandolfBlockbuster]

@@TheTideKing004 True, you need a PC to play Fable.

[@cgzepp]

I was actually thinking about if someone did a "is it worth it now?" For Biomutant today. I bought it at launch and was super hyped, but got sad pretty fast

[@grinninggoblin3698]

I played through the game, don't remember a lot of it, as a psi-freak using pretty much only ki spark and levitate. I felt like a thunder god I battle, but I found the fighting boring even before I could use lightning nonstop. The only fights i looked forward to were the bosses, and in 2 of them you use vehicles rather than your own skill, and the other two felt super reliant on guns. I felt like specializing in intelligence and magic hurt me in the end.

[@kalesmythe]

Thanks for good review. I will buy this

[@kharijordan6426]

About the guns I think 🤔 you were supposed to upgrade luck so you can find super powerful gun parts....it does suck that the game doesn't tell you about this. I forgot if luck was separate from crit chance but upgrading these two things makes guns better. Not your fault....100% the dev's fault for making it that way without fully explaining it.

[@joshevertonyt]

Partially my fault haha, I usually upgrade crit chance heaps in games and did put quite a lot into luck, just never got it far enough to push it over the edge

[@SlCKNESS_]

@@joshevertonyt It would've quite literally reset if you had pushed it over the edge.

[@kodorogames]

3:02 It works for me. The entire background blurs heavily and you can read descriptions fine. I guess it's a bug you experienced, but I'm playing the same PS5 version. Just saying.

[@incorporealnuance]

I have a few of japanese friends who're obsessed with this game- but I don't think it's for the gameplay; they mostly just like thinking about the characters making out. Maybe the translation is just really creative?

[@heathsmetalwerx]

Can't say I agree I actually lobed the ideas on the game especially crafting. Great different game for me.

[@dylhas1]

Biomutant had unbelievable potential and I hope they make a sequel. There’s so much they could fix to make the game a great experience. But things like the character designs and weapon building are great, but everything else is meh

[@DuskyPredator]

I had trouble after character creation had no female option.

[@bahumatneo]

The movement system felt like a game made in dreams on ps4.

[@joshevertonyt]

Accurate

[@djtoxicdhg]

This game was such a blast I absolutely loved this cute game it was a solid 8/10 game

[@AnarchySin74]

i was hyped. never even finished it.

[@HossBullys]

It was made for me. I really like this game. Is it as good as horizon or Elden ring no but it’s a great game for what it is.

[@GalletaGalletosa]

It is an ok game that sticks out from the rest thanks to the premis and animals, but i think everybody expected much more

[@glossyplane542]

small amount of advice: for the thumbnail I think it would be better if you put the "who is this for" in 2 or 3 lines and put it in the spot left of the protagonist and also change the color to just white. Changing the thumbnail can also cause a new influx of viewers sometimes.

[@jowoman7799]

Who is this for? Me.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

You: a weirdo with absolute sh.tty taste and an L take.

[@jreyesl85]

I really enjoyed a lot and played all the way untill the end

[@talion4033]

I remember being really excited for this game ever since it’s initial reveal. I enjoyed playing it when it came out but it was extremely repetitive

[@OhThatsGood33]

Im glad im not the only one. I tried twice, and wanted to like it, tried to like it. Just didnt. I like the idea alot. Just not the execution

[@pandymandy]

I do not have much to say on this one, as I have very little investment in the topic. However I've found myself at a greater willingness to commit the time, and some anticipation, with a new Josh Everton release, even if some topics are (for me) a tough sell. I say as much though, because you do continue to deliver. I am mostly shocked at the depth for which you've regarded this title as it seems particularly obscure; not something I'd even heard of until seeing this video. I may be posing such an opinion from bias informed on video content alone, but it feels almost a waste of critique. And I am not certain if it is simply in my personal lens, but it feels like you had a lesser strength of interest in the topic after a point in the digest. Nevertheless as food-for-thought on creative integrity, and good accompaniment dialogue to work, I thoroughly enjoyed the exploration of Biomutant as from your experience. And also saddened by the frequency with which such simple development issues like user-interface (per the start of the video) are able to get passed through on officially licensed media in the market. It is not all films, games, stories, etc, but an alarming amount seem to forgive themselves in negligence as years proceed. To me, in deeply valuing what a game is intent on saying, the sheer lack of meaningful writing just oozes either a lack of care or stiff working conditions. I will remain perpetually worried what concessions of the next ten years will bring to video games in media as developers seek a _concluded_ project over a _finished_ one, more and more. I do hope Experiment 101 - like all creative teams in the early stumbling phase - may learn and grow from this and show a new product that demonstrates an ability to evolve. Great video, Josh.

[@joshevertonyt]

As always, I look forward to and sincerely appreciate your viewership, feedback, and insight. Thank you again for the thoughtful and constructive comment, hope you enjoy future content!

[@Daniel-tp4vy]

my dude just talk normal

[@Thenextday8]

I don’t think it was a bad game, I enjoyed it lol it was very different at the time

[@saisgirlfriend]

I remember getting the code to play this and give my review. I played about 2 hours to get my thoughts together and sadly I hated it. If this came out on PC in the early 00s it might have worked

[@joshevertonyt]

Agreed, felt dated the second I loaded in

[@ZedNull.]

They straight up defrauded their audience. The biggest selling point to the game was being a "mutant" having the ability to visibly mutate changing stats throughout the game becoming a creature of your own design, grow wings, grow combat claws ect. this is what they pitched to everyone, very shortly before release they scrapped this and were extremely quiet about it. Now its just a game with cool art design and no creativity to be found beyond that. Every town you capture feels exactly the same, good and evil dont matter, the classes are all heavily unbalanced no system in the game feels complete. Some money man came in late in development and rushed production and absolutely ruined this game which had genuine potential, would be my assumption.

[@ThatFinnBoy]

This cycle of violence story is deeper than The Last of Us Part II

[@LockDOTspot]

I didn't know this game ever released.

[@jesusvera7941]

seems like when you build a big and pretty world you also have to make it interesting to explore, who would have thought!?

[@CelticNickC]

I was beyond sold after watching a Pewdiepie play through/gameplay. Didn’t see him play much after, so I guess I should have read that 🤷‍♂️

[@richardremillard4451]

Thanks for the in depth review. I see it on sale .. and I feel like I’m looking at lipstick on a pig. Excellent points : Who is the game for? Why is it not fun? What is the motivation What makes you want to get more points or stats or power points? I think you saved me $10 and hours of disappointment and asking myself “why am I playing this?” 👍

[@phillipmitchell2254]

Yeah the way to do guns is to unlock the best ones in side content and kitbash their best parts together

[@AtomicEy]

2017 - 2021 considering the game was in development hell it's about what i expected.

[@xel_los]

I kinda liked it and idk if deserves an hour of critique