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    Code Violet averaging a 40 out of 100 (OpenCritic)



    Is this PlayStation 5’s worst “Exclusive”? I know Forspoken received an average of a 66. I wonder how long until Code Violet is $29.99?

    Posted by Froz3nP1nky

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    45 Comments

    3. NfinityBL on

      I don’t think anyone should be surprised that yet another TeamKill Media game, the studio that use console wars to market their games and describe themselves as a PlayStation studio, is utter dogshit.

      How anyone saw Quantum Error and then expected this to be any better was beyond me.

    7. Cain_draws on

      >Unfortunately, Violet has the rotten luck of waking from her slumber in nought but her underwear, and what would you know, her clothes are at the other end of the facility.

      >So she crouches down, and sneaks out of the room to look for trousers and weapons and maybe an explanation as to who put dinosaurs in space and her on the menu. And she does it all while the camera gets up close and personal with her rump.

      You know, I had my suspicion on what kind of player base this was aimed towards, but now I’m not so suspicious at all.

    8. SkulkingSneakyTheifs on

      Wow, I for one am completely shocked that a game that didn’t look good at all, isn’t good. Absolutely shocked I tell you. Floored even.

    13. Pocktio on

      I read the blurb and the plot is future humans kidnapping past women to use as surrogates because future humajns are sterile.

      What the fuck.

      No idea why there are dinosaurs, maybe they thought it distracts from the rapey forced gestation stuff?!

    14. Excellent_Regret4141 on

      Never even heard of this game till now

      Just saw the trailer looks like it’s trying to be Stellar Blade meets Dino Crisis meets Resident Evil

    16. junttiana on

      40 is honestly higher than what I expected lol, I though it would be averaging a 25/100 at most

    17. Mimb91 on

      In the last days I’ve seen some menu navigation and… holy moly, it was awefull.
      I think the team behind this game still didn’t learn from quantum error.
      There is a reason why they’re only showing small cuts of gameplay.

    18. decidedlyaverag3 on

      Someone said it really well. It was something along the lines of this game copying stellar blade but only in the sense of it being pretty girl fighting game, but that stellar blade actually has decent story and fun gameplay. This game doesn’t look to have any substance other than the aesthetic.

    23. Resident-Forever1340 on

      Devs should have prioritized a good game over “oh look, our main character has ass and tits in tight clothes”. Knew the game would be ass after one vid

    24. SapphicSonata on

      Honestly I’m surprised it was even that high, it looks like hot garbage where the only draw is that it has dinosaurs and hot girls.

    25. wolfgang784 on

      I hadn’t seen anything about the game till now, but I’ll give it a whirl if (when?) it hits PS+. Seems like the PS exclusives that do badly end up there fairly quick. Don’t think id wanna buy it outright though.

      Also, Forspoken is a mostly great game that got too much hate =( lol

    27. Prestonluv on

      I played about two hours last night. Got to first main hub.

      Took me an extra hour from dying so much because I didn’t stealth well at start.

      Animations are garbage. Little bugs all over. No game log to recap story or track and read all collectibles.

      Having said that after I got the hang of it I enjoyed the second hour.

      It’s only like a 6-7 hour game I have read so it’s short enough to put up with the jank.

      5/10

    29. AltFire00 on

      It always looked like the equivalent of a Steam Greenlight game from years ago; generic Unreal look, overt sexualization of the female main character etc. The only reason it got attention was because people have been asking for a Dino Crisis remake/reboot/successor for years, and that’s how this game has been pushed to people.

    36. PRE_-CISION-_ on

      Next letdown Turok! Ugh why can’t anyone make a good dino game that isn’t monster hunter 

    38. OneRandomVictory on

      Who could have seen this coming except everyone who saw even a small bit of this game?

    39. KageXOni87 on

      I mean…..no shit. It looks like straight ass. I doubt theres an asset in there that wasnt premade and bought from a shop. And those facial animations…..ugh.

    40. sheeplessinohio on

      I just finished watching a streamer play the full game and… it’s seriously one of the worst games (at least of games pretending like they’re making an effort) I’ve seen in quite some time. Putting aside the gratuitous costumes, the game was just… horrendously ugly. The textures looked horrible, the characters looked terrifying, the camera shook way too much when firing a weapon, and the environments were either too dark, too dull, both, or whatever the fuck the place in the final part of the game was supposed to be (it was really out of place and just really jarring). Even the map, for whatever reason, was awful to look at. It was unnecessarily blurry and hard to read.

      The sound design was also atrocious. The menu sounds were way too loud and awful to listen to, the sounds during this one puzzle game that repeated itself multiple times sounded like old Atari games but worse, and the sound they used for doors opening was the Doom sound. Like, not a sound-alike, it was the actual sound from Doom.

      The music was, you guessed it, also awful. Unless you *really* like Für Elise (which you may not after playing this game because it plays a LOT), the music during most of the playthrough was either nonexistent, or way too loud and completely inconsistent with what is currently happening in the game.

      Speaking of “happening in the game”, who the fuck knows? The story made absolutely no sense whatsoever and there were cutscenes only towards the end of the game that offered these massive exposition dumps. By then though, it didn’t even matter because no effort was put into developing anything related to the story or the characters. The devs made no effort into giving players an opportunity to put any emotional stock into any character throughout the entire game. When major events (I say “major” loosely here) happen, it doesn’t really matter because you don’t even know why it’s happening, why it matters to the main character, and therefore, you don’t know why it matters to you.

      And on top of all of this, the game was BORING. There were long stretches of gameplay where nothing was happening. Just… running through dark, dank, ugly environments and very occasionally, you’d see a dinosaur. Oh, why are the dinosaurs bad? Fuck if I know, but you gotta kill them because the game said so! The only real “fun” you can have is looking for items that unlock new costumes, but all the costumes are either named horribly, look horrible, or in most cases, both.

      How this was a PS5 game and a $50 game at that is beyond my understanding. I don’t usually like to dunk so hard on someone or a group trying to make a game, but this game was… bad. Like, real bad. I feel they should delist this game, take some time to learn more about game development, absorb some of the constructive criticism (I’m sure it exists out there somewhere), and try again later. Or not, I don’t really care because they seem to be high on their own supply.

    43. Full_Metal18 on

      This looks like a fake video game that would be playing in the background of a show. Having a caked up protagonist can only get you so far.

    45. DrBionicle195 on

      Yeah, this game is legendarily bad. Poorly made game on absolutely every single cylinder. The game looked extremely sus in all the trailer/gameplay videos, not surprised. Kinda hard to believe it’s a real game tbh