A lot has already been said about Biomutant, and although I don't want to kick Experiment 101 while they're down, I feel genuinely confused by this game. Who was this made for, and does it really appeal to any particular demographic? As always, these are just my opinions, and please don't let them dissuade you from enjoying the game if you disagree. Thanks for watching, timestamps are below.
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0:00 Intro
4:49 Sound
9:44 Graphics
15:36 Combat
35:19 Story
44:01 Quest Design
45:17 Crafting
49:10 Puzzles
49:39 Conclusion
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I was so hyped for this game and it was.... ok.
to be fair we knew what this was when it was announced. there was no reason to actually buy this.
@@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
I enjoyed it, beat it 2.7 times..
@@caliperez725 yep not bad but just not quite as advertised. 2.7 is very specific what happened to the last 0.3? 😀
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
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.
Nah thats boring
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
braindead take
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.
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.
Dear lord that is painful, that would turn anyone off
Wowwwwww hell no. Send the CEO to prison. Right now
I 100% completed it. I don't know why, but my smooth monkey brain thoroughly enjoyed it. I played exclusively played melee.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
bro the trailer for this game looked rad as hell, i was sadden to see the "finish" product.
In my opinion, i think biomutant is the game for those who want to play biomutant.
Hard to argue, really
True xD
dude you are so underrated
Thank you so much, I try to out as much time and effort in as I can
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.
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
Weak ass guns and they don't get better until later, having fun pew pewing
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.
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.
I wish ammo was limited
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.
This is a very high quality video, you deserve more subs.
Thanks mate, means a lot ❤️
I got biomutant for free. I think it's a good game when the internet goes out long periods
A really enjoyable watch! More game reviews please!
Thanks man, had a good time doing it so more to come!
I loved the Game so much, so unique.
This is an incredibly well made video and very clear points throughout, thank you for sharing perspective
Thanks mate, appreciate it!
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.
Have you ever wondered what your palicoes were up to before they met you in monster hunter, this game explains it.
Nice video. You have a very distinctive voice. Very good for narration. Maybe you could produce some sort of series of presentations with power point slides? 🤔 Anyway, keep up the good work. I've got to go to the toilet now on a pee run. 😉
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.
It’s the perfect starter action RPGs for youths new to gaming
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.
@NandolfBlockbuster, except fable, isn't as widely available to everyone. It's locked behind a console choice.
@@TheTideKing004 True, you need a PC to play Fable.
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.
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.
This game was amazing to me, and it is for people who like... FUN. And it gives you a bit of hope for the future.
so. I can tell you from experience, that the game is just, Better on PC. The combat system is better on keyboard than a controller, the performance is on average better, but naturally subjective to your rig. Good PC will have better performance than a PS5, less good might not. Also I'm fairly certain the oversized Klick is actually intentional. As you stated the sounds come from the controller so you might not hear the noise over the actual button presses, and if you're tunnelvisioned and not seeing the bright yellow word, there's a massive one to go "OI! YER OUT OF AMMO!" Though. Yeah, nothing can help the bulletspongeyness.
Makes total sense, it definitely feels like it lends itself towards mouse and keyboard. I feel like if I'd picked it up on PC I might have a slightly different review, but as you say many of my complaints are too baked into the game to be changed by platform. Good point about the reload visual too, I didn't consider it might be intentional
the price hurt this game the most
Its sad, i love how it looks
Yes, IMO it's quite obvious the dev of this game got way too ambitious, and probably had a lot of project creeps...
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.
So much potential for what later became a meh game. I’m happy I just played someone else’s copy of it.
The game did exactly as it advertised that it would do. U create a class, then mutate it twords u're play style. Simple. You play, u use guns or psionics, or swords, or a combo, and u choose the mutation that best suits said style. And then proceed to merc everything that's weaker than you, until you roll up on one of those rare leveled threats, were u test u're build and play style to see if the thing can be hacked, slashed gunned down or melted they way you think it should be. If not, then you need some tweaking, if it does, then u laugh maniacally and continue on your aimless journey. Exactly what the devs said the game would be. And my psi-gunner ( copyright pending) , melts EVERYTHING 😈😈😈😈😆😆😆😆😆
I had a near identical experience. its very much a game for teenagers at that awkward period before edgy stuff becomes cool. I had a terrible time with combat though, I chose a psi-freak I did nothing but MAX Intelligence. ended up one shoting every single enemy, and since I didn't need weapons it made crafting useless outside of instantly maxing out new armor (which that was rare)
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.
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!
my dude just talk normal
I actually really liked biomutant, and I feel like I am the only one
I had trouble after character creation had no female option.
I wanted this game. It suck that it didn't release well.
neat video!
experiment 101 was formed with experience developers from big companies, so it wasn´t their first game development
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.
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
I was hyped for it and then... narator
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.
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.
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"
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
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
I didn't know this game ever released.
I mean… I really enjoyed it..
As long as i can turn music off, then I'll push through. I only play games for 45 min before I decide if I hate it.
Yeah the way to do guns is to unlock the best ones in side content and kitbash their best parts together
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?
This game managed to lose my attention in about 2 days, a pretty impressive feat
I played it and it felt... unfinished, as if there was more to be present but they just left it out and sent the game out example: when you join the bad guys and make good decisions they change their mentality and want to help you, the leader even worries about you, starts thinking that making the big monsters eat the tree might not be the answer but in the ending it just goes "fuck this world", they behave as nothing happened or that you didn't do anything same as joining the good guys, they don't care about you and start asking to end the competition, but it's the same with them. it felt like there was a lot of the story missing and frankly it needed that missing part but even then it felt like it was missing 40% of a game. I felt disappointed by this game.
Ps2 movie licensed game style
So accurate
I totally forgot this game existed
If the game was good, people would be able to say why. It's so obvious that the game is either unfinished or poorly done, everything they may have put passion into is drowned out by the lack of polish or barebones content. Kids may not have been the intended audience, but they are the easiest demographic to pander to for the least effort, and you can scrape together something for kids very easily when your initial idea doesn't look like it'll work out. They likely ran out of time and had to wrap things up and ship the game, and had to settle for poor optimization, black-and-white morality, one single voice actor, stilted cutscenes, mid combat, tell-don't-show story, the ending, etc. Probably would have been better served by limiting the scope of the game, focusing on doing a few things right, and optimizing what matters most instead of having so much left in the state they did, but that describes every poorly received AAA release too.
I agree, scope creep was such a huge factor into why so much of the game feels half-baked. Not uncommon but still sad to see, because some features and ideas had potential
3 years damn.
great fuckin video, please keep it up
Cheers mate, appreciate it!
The longer you play the game the less deep the game felt like the status effects? Really cool so many ohw they just do the exact same just a different death animation. Just a lil thing super wong fu most ability's are useless but when you have a decent shotgun it becomes a nuke with the time slow effect😂
I was hoping for some of the cool evolutions and other buffs. A bit disappointing.
2017 - 2021 considering the game was in development hell it's about what i expected.
Those short cutscenes that didn't make sense and were not necessary were hiding loading screens I mean they could have just made a spinning circle like every other game but
Playing this game made me so angry at times that I decided to destroy the world out of spite instead of saving it.
I love the passion with which you dislike the game 🤣 (and mostly agree)
I actually enjoyed this game as a casual game.
honestly, I rather enjoyed it.... but yeah I do agree.... its a massive mess of a game which could have used at least 2 or 3 YEARS more worth of development. Though I didn't play this on a console, I played it on a PC..... and I would rank it about as bad as Sonic Unleashed, its worthy of a "hate play" and has some good parts if they make a Biomutant 2, I would be interested, but I would 100% watch some streams, or wait till there are some reviews on it to see if they learned from the first game
I pirated this game since there was an easy to emulate Switch version that just came out. The game looked pretty bad to me when it came out, and I wasn't planning on playing it... But since I could try it out via piracy, I decided to give it a shot when I was bored. I played it for maybe 20 minutes and turned it off, will not be playing it again lol. The Switch port is quite a bit worse than the other versions.
I also ask the same question to every games that was released/revealed recently.
My 12 y/o loves this game lol
One of the equipment screens confused me for a moment and I thought I was missing a joke cause it looks similar to a fortnite character menu
I wanted ti like this game. I was Looking forward to it, the. When i got it….it was blehh
I enjoyed this game for what it was.
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.
I don’t think it was a bad game, I enjoyed it lol it was very different at the time
the sounds thing is a ps5 thing
That makes so much more sense, I thought I was going insane...
Tbh sound is bad all around. I played on pc and was quickly turned off by how limp and quiet some sounds are.
Me it was for me
Wanted to immediately it from the trailer, but when i saw the weird 'comic' damage pop ups it just turned me off
What do you mean 3 years
Was it mid yes, did I still enjoy riding around with a horse like creature with a 😐 for a face yes. I liked the game for what it was.
Its was just a redfall tbh a top tier bad game (meaning a decent 6.5/10) i had fun with and put it down after a while. I like janky games and AA games so i dont have much issues with these kind of games. But i can see that people might find it “bad” bad.
Motion blur, the game
Your mom
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.
I love Biomutant lol. Guess they made it just for me lol.
Glad to hear it! I'm always cognisant of the fact that there are heaps of people out there who like the thing I'm fairly harshly criticising, and I really like knowing that people had a better experience than I did
I don't disagree with your points although I personally really enjoyed the game...until coming across any goo or no oxygen areas(despise them) I genuinely had a good time. Probably besides the two types of areas I mentioned that I really don't like I personally didn't like the crafting portion of the game(to each their own I guess) as I have never liked collecting millions of resources just to "upgrade" something and I preferred to just outright loot something whether from a big baddie to chests and containers and seeing that my weapons needed 30 of this and 30 of that was a huge turn off for me but like I said it was me personally. I've played the game all the way through twice and enjoyed both playthroughs but I do understand some of the points people mention. Again, don't disagree just giving my take on the game
Thanks for the insight! Genuinely fascinating to me how different the things we take away from this specific game are. I'm also happy to hear there are a lot of people out there who didn't feel as disappointed as I did
@@joshevertonyt I think the reason why you struggled a bit(not saying you are bad or anything) with the guns was probably because you had low luck I believe it is. If you have 100 in the stat all of your shots are crits and the saw blade guns aren't exactly that great, I'd say handguns are the best especially with the dual wield skill as if you pair two specific legendary handguns together you can melt creatures within seconds. I don't remember the exact names of the two handguns mentioned but they are really good also ability and charisma should mostly be avoided for stats as money(leaves) aren't exactly difficult to come by and agility barely effects your movement speed(tested myself) so luck( if that's the correct stat I'm thinking of) for guns, strength for melee and intelligence if you wanna go with the spells or magic. I usually played ranged gunner anyway and that 100 luck really helps and is just fun to crit all the time. Maybe at some point you could give it another go and you might feel differently in terms of the gameplay portion.
@thepainkiller5527 yeah I definitely made some very poor choices with my stat distribution, and I did find out quite quickly that money became abundant with little effort. I guess I just wish that I felt the desire to really explore all the stats and options, but sadly the prospect simply doesn't excite me
Lol you painted like 2021 wasn't mostly a mesiocre year in gaming as a whole
Maybe I'm assuming too much but maybe the game would have been better off NOT being open world.
Couldn't agree more
I had a good time playing this game. It's really different and not great. But it's absolutely not bad. I rented Elden Ring twice but had to quit because it's so bad. At least I finished Biomutant. Shit, I think I'll download it again.
Saying this game is better than Elden Ring is madness. Even besides preferences, thats just flat out wrong 🤣
i enjoyed it idgaf i like rpgs
I hate this game like kendrick hates drake. Mostly bec everyone one giving it a pass juat bec it was a small team passes shouldn't be made just bec they bit off more then they could chew. Great video tho
Yeah I think THQ Nordic probably had a hand in over-marketing and setting an unreasonable price point, but it feels like no one along the journey really stopped the runaway train. Kind of feels like No Man's Sky if it hadn't been fixed lol
I may have been one of the only people who liked this game. I thought the world was interesting and charming. I thought the loot system was good, the crafting was good, and the mounts and exploration was fun. I didn’t have too high of expectations and enjoyed my time.
Listens to him complain about the combat for 46 minutes to give a 10/10 crafting melee weapons genuinely fun that he never used through the video?
I thought the game was great.
its for furrys your welcome
So the thing about the guns and Dead-Eye. Yes, they used to be powerful, but I wouldn't say OP. Yes, some guns was extremely powerful, again wouldn't say OP. But people claimed they were OP, so the devs took the feedback, nerfed the hell out of Dead-Eye, and nerfed Ranged weapons to the ground. People got what they wanted with it, then complained about it.
That hurts to read, and explains a lot...
Furries... it's for furries
Your Chernobyl example was so insensitive.
Should have been coop 😔
Furries😅
It's for anyone who wants to play it. Obviously.
console player brained review
I'm so sick of making choices in games. I dont wanna choose if im good or evil, i dont wanna choose what tribe to be in, i dont even wanna choose dialogue