Gripper

~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My 90-year-old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy 🔲 Normal ✅ Hard 🔲 Dark Souls 🔲 Understanding Dark Souls' story ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game 🔲 Good (nothing special) 🔲 Beautiful ✅ Masterpiece ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad 🔲 Not special 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful ✅ Masterpiece ~ Gameplay ~ 🔲 Try not to get addicted ✅ Very good 🔲 Good 🔲 Nothing special 🔲 Bad 🔲 very Bad ~ Audience ~ 🔲 Kids ✅ Teens ✅ Adults ~ STORY ~ 🔲 Not important in this kind of games 🔲 Bad 🔲 Text or Audio floating around ✅ Average 🔲 Good 🔲 Lovely ~ PRICE ~ 🔲 Free 🔲 Cheap ✅ Acceptable price 🔲 Could be cheaper 🔲 Overpriced 🔲 Complete waste of money ~ REQUIREMENTS ~ 🔲 You can run it on a microwave ✅ Potato pc 🔲 Average 🔲 High end 🔲 NASA computer ~ LENGTH ~ 🔲 Very Short (0 - 4 hours) ✅ Short (4 - 10 hours) 🔲 Average (10-30 hours) 🔲 Long (30-50 hours)...

[b] Target Audience: [/b] [I] Those with a lot of Frustration Tolerance and want something a little different in Action [/i] [b] Summary: [/b] Gripper is one of those games that feel like it's on a very shaky foundation. Don't get me wrong, when the tunnel like sections and open arena combat are working the way you want them to, it can be fun and a challenge. But the shaky foundation doesn't like a lot of variation in gameplay: and almost expect you to go one way and one way only. The thing is, if you do go outside the bounds of what the game wants you to do, even for a moment: then all hell breaks loose. Like, I'm not talking about not listening to the game's very oddly written story or the instructions given to you. I'm talking about going left versus right against a hazard in the tunnel sections: and running into a hazard that has appeared so quickly in front of you, you have no chance to dodge it. Or a boss fight where the bosses leading shots are so accurate that you are wo...

When I saw the trailer for Gripper, I found myself drawn to it. It looked like it had some concepts that I loved; Fast paced gameplay, sci-fi apocalyptic aesthetic, battles with titanic bosses... So I tried the game. And let me just say, while the game does have good ideas... They fall flat. First, the story. I'll be brief because there's not much to talk about. The story is bare bones, the characters are one-dimensional, and honestly it felt like it was added as an afterthought. While I was whatever about the characters, it's a bloody shame that there was no real world building, because the setting was interesting. They just didn't do anything with it. The dialogue is also... not good. The writing is weirdly paced and often feels inorganic. Plus, there are several instances where the subtitles don't match the spoken dialogue! It really felt like not much effort was put into the narrative. But hey, you don't need a super compelling story if the game is fun to play, which begs the q...

Very unique vibe like a bit of cyberpunk. It’s really difficult. I was like I WANT TO BEAT THE BOSS!!

After I got used to the controller, I liked the game. And it’s pretty cool that you can use anything as a weapon. First I thought I can grab only explosives and throw them to the boss but then I realized that I can rip the legs off the bosses! Quite an interesting mechanic. So using the controls was weird in the beginning but it’s just because you need to get used to it.

FEEL SO GOOD TO MURDER ANGER

It's a very unique action game. It took me a while to figure out how everything works. I like the motorbike A LOT! I feel the speed, like the Akira slide.

The trailers make this look like a smooth, stylish, high-octane bullet-hell. In reality, its a janky, frustrating boss-rush with poor controls and worse encounter design. I refunded it after an hour of play (First two bosses defeated)

Quite different from the usual boss fight.

I like the way you can hook and then sling yourself forward. Quick time events were a little on the left side that I didn’t like as much. The music is good and reminds me of Furi. The way you pull off the leg of the boss is kind of finicky where you feel like that you don’t want to get close to him because you’re gonna explode, that’s kind of weird but I like that they also pick up the enemies and throw back at it. That was fun.