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Friday the 13th...THE GAME: or... ...the game that movie franchises and horror fans have deserved... ...albeit in a distinctly 3 numbered experience... ...And I do mean that seriously. This is one of the first times I've really felt three distinct numbers about a game (totally get you now Famitsu), but, honestly... Friday the 13th is a...6, an 8, and a 10!!!!!! A six...because I'm frustrated and angry at some things that are broken...some things that make me really really want the game to be working better, that much more badly, because it is, simultaneously... An 8! (but, so...a 6...because, my first night playing, it took 35 minutes to find a realizable session, which, in "playing games" time, and with constant google searches, wondering if IM the problem...was almost forever...halfway to forever, which did make me worry if forever (hour and ten minute long waits) did exist...and if this was it...so, a 6...but...) ...I SWEAR to you it's at least an 8...because, sure, there's some tank-ness to the controls... (took me a few days to get up the nerve to entering “fight mode” to combat jason or a counselor (and i rarely saw people doing it because “fighting” is a bit rigid (but juuust a bit) without a way to lock onto a target...but honestly, i didn’t want it too much because it’s fun to size someone up sans-system helping the fight) ...the animations on faces can look silly (second pic feels accurate though tbh), and sometimes axe swing or stumbling animations break, and look buggy when you clip through rocks or small pieces or brush... but...BUT...holy shit this game gets what’s fun. And, case and point was, for me, even if / when you get killed... You can spectate the match...witch turns into it’s own little horror movie that you can watch and laugh with friends! It REALLY feels like you're watching a horror movie!...AND I GET IT PLAY IT! BE IN THIS WORLD! That is honestly so magical to me because i love horror movies, and can’t get nearly anyone to watch them with me... ...BUT, it was so easy for my roommates who hate anything scary, to STILL be on board with watching what is essentially a dressed up / unscripted game of cat and mouse. I mean, yeah, maybe I'm like a loving papa with games, and so I feel a great deal of pride because the developers, it feels like, really really tried to get ALL the right fun stuff in...ALL the things I didn't know I wanted and loved both as a gamer, AND a fan of the movies / genre in general Fear affects hud / map visibility Stamina is is sooo quantifiable and precious (aka, You have to run and take breaks every hundred feet or so like the most terrifying game of survival red light green light) Company with other counselors or turning music can decrease fear ...and, admittedly...I'm a grind fiend, so constant perk rolls and counselors to unlock is fantastic Ugh, there’s so much great GAME in this game! They really tried to quantify and make constantly at play, elements that work WITH this franchise / theme / horror in general. And it makes me even more proud because the team really WENT for it... Making games is tough, let alone with small / new teams, but they nailed the license, did some funding (and yeah, bleh, preorder bonus (makes the game a 6 cause i want that skiiiin, but... ( come on, it’s an 8...they gotta make money, I get it...you DO have to stranglehold US cause you really really do need money...people don't get how bad you need it even if you do everything right game developers...so i’m not mad at you) And soo...10 This game is a a damn TEN and you know it Because I really think the team has created something soooooo fun and successful and and wonderful I'm a fan of the movies, and a fanboy of horror so any rated m horror game with some meat on it, I'm into (even if it is multiplayer only lol), even just for how niche that genre can be, and how hard / scary a sell it can be for any company to commit to But daaaaamn... As much as a long series of stories and campaigns going though the movies would be cool... This is right at the meat of what's also fun! Just the game of it... Gore and gratuity aside, its the PERFECT cat and mouse game with lovingly convoluted mousetrap esque escapes and...possible kill plans (I try not to spoil endings for myself...) So, I admit as a fan... I was excited to see the opening logo... The pre-game camp cinematics are fun for me every time And I swear to you...the movie scenario-esque escapades play out beautifully when 5 people are fighting themselves, and Jason, and bear traps, and stamina degrade, over ONE car that's been crashed five times People build poker hands beneath the radio chatter and behind other player’s backs Trump knives are played There are upsets and escapes... The caribou DOES get away... ...but you'll have to look away when he doesn't ha So...it’s a 10 ..it’s a ten... ...but... ...and I swear... ...in the time since I started playing and before finishing writing this...I haven't got to play Jason yet ha...been playing two nights and one afternoon, (and even in a 8 person room with a friend for hours (he was Jason 3 times...)), so, so far only...8-12 hours maybe? So...that, yeah, just sucks. Maybe just a character flaw and the math of it...but it sucks watching everyone be Jason, and never getting to be the bell of the murder ball, so...6 ...it’s a 6... ...but... ...buuuuut...

...it REALLY has been fun without him, and even waiting for him! Yeah, the counselor motus operandie is similar each game, and there's too much out of our control as counselors, and too many mini games to fail, and a lack of coordination and mic use that work to hamstring / make impossible every game for us... (...just a thought, but I would love it if car keys / crucial items that can be dropped when you die...would show up on the map for counselors, just so that, if someone spawns with the keys, and dies in the woods ten feet from the car...then they’re not entirely lost to the whole group still planning / trying to get gas and a battery and escape, thus pre-emptively ruining their strategy whole game...because we can’t KNOW they’re gone until you’ve literally checked every drawer in camp...and then you call the police but there was only 4 minutes left in the game (takes them 5 to get there), but we had no idea we could’ve never won and that we’d run out of time...because we didn’t know the keys were lost, nor how much time we had left to play, until the end of the game) ...And, yeah, ALL Jason has to do (I imagine) is wait for skills to unlock and cool downs to burn, and then chase and execute, by rote, effectively simply by NOT giving up... ...but, all the same... 8... ...because, damnit I'm just so happy this is here at all... And getting to see Games...maybe not improving on the “movie going experience”... ...but standing up there on its own... it feels great. ...and yeah, the game satisfies a “i get to keep playing” itch that watching the scripted counselor / Jason interaction I've seen again and again, can't. And maybe it never could? Movies become “seen” once you watch them... And THIS gets to be new-ish every time, right? So, in summation... Why can't we have GOOD movie games? Games that GET the movie... ...and movies that would really make me wanna play that game!!!!!! Isn't THAT the dream? Why we're allllllll here? Lol so... Yeah, i think this game does that So...10 Definitely a 10, definitely a 10... ...just, also an 8 ...and a 6...but only sometimes (...but still... ...a 10, damnit...) (OH - two week plus of playing update - servers work way better...been jason soooo many times :) ...game still has “getting kicked from game” because the host lost first and got sad and quit, so nobody gets xp, problems...but still... TEN TEN TEN TEN TEN)

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