Get Even

where do I start with this mess?

the whole game is extremely narrative heavy. there is HARDLY any gameplay. all you do for the entire duration of the game is walk around your environment listening to extremely loud melodramatic violins and voice acting.

then have this phone full of stupid fucking apps you have to switch back and forth between scanning your environment or doing all this digital virtual reality shit to highlight where to go and stuff like that. Its utterly boring.
It's like they spent 2 days developing the actual GAME side of things, and 3 years doing nothing but voice acting, script writing, and story shit. Well then how is the story? UTTERLY MELODRAMATIC DULL BORING SHIT.

Essentially all it is: "muh family. What happened to Muh family." that's it. its the most generic trope in the book. its like the developer thought "Hmm whats something most humans can connect with on an emotional level? Oh I know, family relations!" and they made it the entire story. ITS BORING. It all takes place in a VR headset 'digital world' that makes you fly between tons of different random memories arbitrarily. It seems totally convoluted and overly complex for no reason. It's stupidly hard to follow and I just stopped giving a shit very quickly. I was waiting for the actual gameplay AND IT NEVER HAPPENED.

The entire game you have the most overblown MELODRAMATIC fucking violin music blasting in your face like its some grand emotional spectacle like The Titanic or something but in reality I'm god damn near falling asleep the entire time its so fucking dull and uneventful.
Here is what an average hour of gameplay looks like in Get Even

-> 1. appear in some random 'memory' complex room or forest area
-> walk around the environment staring at your phone on the bottom of the screen with incredibly low FOV so it feels like double vision
-> look at your stupid fucking phone apps for the next hint of how to progress in the enviorment
-> Stop! you are now interrupted by a scripted 'still image digital distortion Memory' event where you're forced to sit and listen to another fucking BORING line of voice acting for 90+ seconds at a time.
-> Repeat back step 1.

the ONLY variation of this are things like

-> Now there are 'Hostile enemy' forces patrolling around. However, the game is screaming at you to avoid them and do not engage.
-> Tip toe around the enemies or just say fuck it and kill them all with really rudimentary, boring, and stupid controls where you look through your PHONE SCREEN to shoot at enemies and they disintegrate into pixel dust. By the way you're not suppose to do this the game is yelling at you saying its going to punish you if you do this. I don't get it.
> OR there is now an incredibly basic puzzle where you flip switches.

Repeat all of that for 6 hours and that's ALL of Get Even. Don't forget the whole time you have extremely obnoxious SHITTY melodramatic music blasting at you and convoluted "oh my god the mystery of muh precious family NOOOO!!!".. Like they actually think they've written some masterpiece of story writing that really pulls on your emotions and really makes you think. They actually think they've done that. I can tell. It's so fucking lame. It's so corny. I hate this stupid shit. God damn this game fucking SUCKS.

And to top all of that off guess what?

You have to replay half of the game over again, from a slightly different 'perspective' The same dull 3 different environments over AGAIN.
That's right. Around halfway through the game it shifts you into another person where it replays the same BORING FUCKING 'LEVELS" over again with slightly different voice acting and environmental paths. I WAS FALLING ASLEEP THE ENTIRE TIME. THIS GAME SUCKS ASS.

There were many parts in this game where I was groaning out loud in cringe or just utter boredom it was that fucking bad. Rocking back and forth in my chair or just muttering dumb stuffto myself to try to entertain myself to be able to sit through this slog of a 'game'. It was that boring.
The story is so god damn bad and cliche. There isn't even really cutscenes or anything of the sort. The entire story is told through these scripted 'Still motion' digital memory segments where you just stand there like a dumbass watching these two digital caricatures repeat lines of voice acting to each other.

- The 'combat' sucks and punishes you for even attempting to have FUN by using it.

- the story sucks

- the graphics suck. its actually nauseating to play with the extremely low FOV and two screens at once (phone + regular vision)

- the environments suck. There are basically only three of them. Some sort of mental facility, a random forest, and dingy ruined buildings.

- the controls suck.

- the stupid fucking phone mechanic sucks.

-the music SUCKS. There are parts where it randomly starts blasting the most stupid fucking pop music in your face too. It's so stupid. This game is so stupid.

It is really like they had a bunch of ideas for voice acting and dialogue and wrapped it in a poor excuse of a 'game' because they didn't know what else to do with it.
You can do a ton of optional shit and 'discover more about the story' by 'replaying memories' or some stupid fucking shit but WHY. I don't know if I got the 'proper' ending or not, I don't give a shit. I'm just happy this chore is over.

3/10