Masquerade: The Baubles of Doom

I kinda see what they were going for here, and if not for a few (major) flaws this might have been a fun, if simple game. As is though it's just not fun to play. Floaty controls, jerky animation... Don't bother. Better luck next time.

Sehr lustiges Spiel und eigentlich gut gemacht aber wie kann man so dumm sein das Spiel so zu programmieren das es nur startet wenn ein Gamepad eingesteckt ist? Zumal es sich auch mit Maus und Tastatur spielen lässt

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At a glance, I thought this game was something like a PS2 era 3D brawler/platformer. I got it as part of a Humble Bundle in 2020, and now finally got aroung to playing it. I am glad, that I did not pay the full price for this game. The game is a buggy mess. If you are actually [i]able[/i] to start the game without a crash, things like the bad hit registration and a camera, that will make you sick from flicking around all the time, will force you to quit the game ASAP. Skip this one, even if you already own it, like I did.

Just bad, and not even in the interesting ways you would think. Everything but the characters look like they were constructed out of stock assets. Gameplay is dead simple, but implementation is still massively bungled (see other reviews). Sells itself on comedy, but writing is boring, acting cringe. The two protagonist's character designs (and all female characters) are overtly sexualized (nipples poking through clothes on literally every female character), feels out of place in a kid's game. Also, technical issues to the point of being basically unfinishable. Poor performance overall. Scaling is wonky when you open the game, need to change resolutions every time you start up to display correctly. First time I booted, no sound outside cutscenes (merciful in hindsight). The kicker: if you press the "go to next level" button at the end of a level, the game crashes while saving EVERY TIME. This erases (or at least corrupts) ALL of your save data, not just the save data for the level you just completed. This is why I dropped the game, playtime is so short. These are just the issues I experienced, and judging by other's accounts I dodged most of the major bullets.

Game would get stuck on an infinite loading screen when trying to enter the second level and wouldn't save my progress forcing me to replay the first level to try to access the second level again. After a few attempts I realised the game didn't seem interesting enough to bother with this and I stopped playing.