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But what is the game like?

This game, not the entirety of the ~40 year history of roguelikes.

The most negative review on Metacritic, which gives the game a 40, ends with, "As it stands, RAD will likely please roguelike aficionados who will forgive ill-conceived gameplay ideas because of the challenge it adds to the experience."

So it's basically saying, if you enjoy the genre, you will like it. But if you don't like the genre...you will not like it.

Thanks, very informative.

These are quotes from 3 real reviews.

It's like if a bunch of people who've never played a soccer game before were sat down and made to provide their nuanced professional opinions on FIFA 20.

"All you can do in this game is play soccer. Why isn't it open world?"

"The various mutations could present clever ideas for unique builds and a multitude of ways to solve problems in a planned, not random, world. This course would have also allowed for more balanced combat and a greater focus on narrative. But… NOPE!"

Yep!

"On the other hand, the RNG can be brutal in how it distributes power-ups between runs"

Yeah, that's part of playing a rogue-like

"The downside is the unforgiving permadeath rogue-like nature of the game. Progress can become frustrating when you suddenly die and lose all your mutations and have to start again."

Yes, that's the genre you are playing.

Reviews for roguelikes that have the reviewer constantly explaining the genre, and complaining about the game adhering to it.

"I like the combat but permadeath and random level layouts are a real pain"

Brought to you by, me trying to figure out if Rad is a good game.

The Muppets fascinate me, because there's this pathos to them, this weird kind of naturalistic grittiness to their little dirty pelts, and it really shouldn't work at all, but somehow you're completely willing to accept these felt-covered inanimate objects as celebrities acting in all these movies. It's so wild. It's like if Roger Rabbit had an independent film career.

There is an entire subgenre of podcasts which go, minute by minute, through movies. Each episode is a single minute of movie runtime.

The first one in this genre was a podcast for The Phantom Menace, and they spent 50 years on the podrace.

My favorite movie by the minute podcast was for Beetlejuice, but I use the subsubgenre of Muppet movies by the minute to fall asleep.

There are at least two Muppet movie podcasts, and I had to stop listening to one because the hosts were bickering too much.

I tried this Invader Zim picrew thing but I just wound up with Dib shit fucj

Love 2 read reviews about a particular roguelike that complain about the genre as a whole.

"Ew it has permadeath! It's all random!"

Do you complain about first person shooters not having enough melee options? Are you mad at sports games for not having a good plot?

Tumblr is and was an excellent platform for vehemently defending trans fictional characters while tearing down actual trans people, sometimes using one as the means for the other.

This was Tumblr, ofc

I once knew someone who wouldn't donate to a disabled trans teen fleeing an abusive family because the kid was a fan of Ace Ventura

Being for or against 90s media was more important than idk a vulnerable child having their physical needs addressed

Jurassic Park was a landmark in trans film making and trans male representation, in the form of dinosaurs

A man talking about velicioraptors transitioning: Life...finds a way