Superhero Simulator

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I bought this game because it was dirt cheap and I thought..."It can't be worse than Champions Online". I hope the current build "story" is just a placeholder for the tutorial, because I think this game could be something special. Granted, I haven't been around for most of the development and I don't know the history, but from what I played in two hours, I had a lot of fun. It was stupid. It didn't take anything seriously. There is some jank but not more than I expect from an early access title. The economy in the game must be in a full blown depression with the price of goods. You start the game immediately in an on-the-rails tutorial that you can not seem to skip - So follow it. It's not long and will teach the basics. Following this tutorial you're left to become a hobo hero or struggle to be a hero while holding down a crap job while you forget to bathe or use the bathroom and stink up the place. You have a cashier as your side kick that does nothing to help you as you struggle through rent in abject poverty barely able to feed yourself, much less pay for medicine. There is no healthcare. I punched a giant rat that kept screaming "I GIVE UP, PLEASE STOP BEATING ME", but never gave me the option to succeed *and* stop beating it at the same time. After two hours, I have one complaint and one complaint only. Callouts are too frequent. I want to do them - They are the minigames that make the game entertaining. I don't appreciate them being thrown at me in bulk, so I can struggle to get to them only to hear dispatch whining about my not doing the jobs of police, fire or ambulances. The way callouts are delivered needs work. My suggestion would be to organize callout types in a hierarchy that branches out to other types of callouts related to a narrative depending on which are tackled successfully, ones that are failed and which are ignored/missed. Those ignored or missed show up less automatically and those tackled and failed show up a bit more frequently than those that show up and are successfully completed. Give each callout a score that reflects their intended difficulty and raises the likelihood of special callouts. A hierarchy example involving a specific type of callout: Gangs are causing problems. You defeat them. Callout related to the progression of gangs causing problems might be a hold up, a prison break, a stolen vehicle, a den of stolen merchandise, robbery, all leading to an escalating callout that includes a boss fight. A kid is missing a cat might lead to a mystery in the park exploring an area (treasure hunt), that might lead to They Walk Among Us as a game of spotting the aliens walking in public. Maybe they walk funny, or they do specific things or they complain about pizza. Then this leads to an alien conspiracy and maybe some alien themed boss fight. The idea is to limit the number of callouts active at any given time, while giving the callouts more individual value as tools to push a narrative forward. It's just a suggestion. The game is a steal right now. I would have paid double if I knew it was going to be this entertaining. Please keep up development and improve this title. Despite the lack of any in depth story this game is better than Champions Online.