u/ArcadialoI

I was recently gonna purchase something tech-related, but I noticed they have a pay-per-month option with SİMA. I've never used it, so just wondering has anyone here ever used it? Does it cost more money to buy it this way, or is it just like any other pay-per-month option that every company does? Is it a verified app? lol. No clue, sorry.

If this was any other event, I wouldn't care, but for an event that's supposed to celebrate a decade together with its players, this just makes me sad and greatly underappreciated by the devs, ngl.

For starters, event cosmetics were so easy to get after just one day of playing since there weren't many (other than the quest-locked ones where you have to wait for the next batch of missions). There were barely any skins, no skins for the first four Survivors, or even any particularly good ones other than the free Oni Twitch Drop.

The event mode also favors one side (survivors) way more than the other. And survivors are just doing catering, which isn't anything fun, while Killers are basically throwing stronger Clown bottles?

On top of all that, they also reduced the amount of cakes you can get in the Bloodweb, making it way harder for new players to catch up and enjoy the game for some reason. Why? Why are we punishing them? Because 0.1% of the playerbase is close to having P100 on all characters? That makes no sense. I'm confused how is this supposed to be a big celebration..

It has such unique gameplay, cool mechanics, rich lore and all that.. but the story telling was lacking. I honestly couldn't connect with our protagonist at all. She was so robotic and had such a lack of urgency that it feels like this is just another day at work for everyone except the player. Even side characters like Emily Pope have no sense of urgency and act like all of this is completely normal, and I know she is used to paranormal stuff, but to this degree? The only side character I felt drawn to was Marshall, but then we had to kill her, smh.

I know the lore is much deeper if you read the 100+ pages scattered around the Oldest House, but after so many pages, it quickly gets boring when so much of the lore is told through random documents instead of the game itself. That's my biggest issue, the lore is interesting, but I don't think the actual storytelling is good. I also generally like mystery games when the characters and the player are figuring things out together, but here it felt like the player was the only one out of the loop.

Also, there being no real end screen was disappointing. You beat the game, both DLCs, do the side missions, and you're still at the Bureau. Nothing basically changes. It's more "under control" than actually resolved. I found that so anticlimactic, but I'm sure some people love that approach.

Overall, as a maze action game? Great one. That Ashtray Maze level with that banger music will never be forgotten. But as a story-driven game? It left me pretty disappointed. I know this game is beloved, so If you love it, you do you, just not for me, I guess. Maybe part of the reason was that I went in all hyped because this game is always so praised, and the story on paper looked so interesting, so I expected so much more, but I guess most of the praise goes toward the gameplay.