The Cruelty Squad Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Reviewing masterpiece of dark satire; Cruelty Squad.
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11:30 FYI, "Revenant mall cops" aka Necromechs are only invincible to basic firearms. Rockets and armor-piercing weapons like the AWS will take them out.
Talking to the politician in Mall Madness is also great. He'll tell you that his *_radical_* unacceptable idea is... introducing a 1% tax on corporate income.
The mad lad needs to be stopped!
Such hubris! The market does not submit to the will of those carved from mere flesh!
Never tried talking to him, interesting lmao
@@IC-xk4gi you can talk with all unarmed targets
That is NOT the CEO mindset, he deserves to die after all
“the classic politician mistake of not having a roof” LMAOOOO
Exactly the game I want to hear more about. I need more games that allow me to get rich off gamestop trading and suck my soul out, leaving me a shell of a man.
why game when u can do it irl
@@mdd4296 what makes you think I didn't?
@@mdd4296 There's a bigger risk to invest in "gamestop" irl, it doesn't really matter wherever you go. I believe that most people like OP want to be dead inside due to stock market crash without suffering the bankruptcy along it.
It's like Eye: Divine Cybermancy and Crypt Worlds had a baby.
Eye divine pain world.
i'm feeling more deus ex, hitman, quake, hotline miami vibes with an underlying feeling of utter indifference
And also space funeral
Thats a weird way to say abortion
The fact that the steam store page description starts with "set in the hardcore gig economy of corporate liquidations," tells me all I need to know.
I've heard of certain games compared to crack but this seems like gaming krokodil
Funny thing. Each reviewer has a different description of the graphics
Everyone has a different experience on their local shroom species
Oh yeah, definitely. For me, the graphic was alright because i'm accustomed to PS1 graphics and also Half-Life. But for younger people or mostly who are into modern fps games probably gonna view it as "ugly"
It's all about the gameplay for me
@@frds_skce Personally, I best describe it at deep fried vaporwave
@@Cyborgs7 in all honesty, i woukd say that it's better to be called as "deep-fried darkwave coated with blood and expired bread crumbs"
@@frds_skce it’s literally meant to be ugly and obtuse.
This is the weirdest game I've ever seen, in a good way.
i couldn't play it due to how trashy it looks, art or not i just couldn't get into it or take it seriously as a game
@@atropa6053 It’s a very fun game but I do end up with a splitting headache due to all the colors.
I learned about ergot poisoning yesterday and hearing you reference it makes me feel like the simulation is breaking.
When does he mention it?
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
At first I really wasn't sold on this game back when I saw the steam page for it.
Then it called me a flesh automaton puppeted by neurotransmitters for dying.
A friend of mine showed me this game the other day and I was put off. Now I'm both put off, and on board. Will probably buy.
the only thing that is cruel is that you curbed me on tinder
baby come back
you can blame it all on me~
We later find out that this game was ahead of its time, because later in the future modern infrastructure and building design is going to be pysco-delic tiling and creepy face wallpaper along with eldritch floor plan design where nothing makes sense but does make sense.
What is this, some kind of Cruelty Squad?
This is your best commentary for any review ever man, I’m a big fan of your writing good stuff man.
The creators have a story and backed that up with solid gameplay that keeps you engaged. It's what most AAA games used to be, what I hope they will one day become again
I'm waiting for the review that starts off with "I'm not gonna start out this video by stating that 'I'm not gonna start out this video by...' because I often start off my reviews by saying how I'm not gonna mention a thing but then I do that anyways but in a roundabout way."
Eating ergot ridden bread whilst playing doom is probably the best description this game could ever have gotten
I have picked up through osmosis that No Russian is almost universally reviled for whatever reason, for being "gratuitous for its own sake" or whatever.... and I just wanted to say that I have a completely different read on it. Now, to be fair, that Call of Duty (it was Modern Warfare 2) is the ONLY one of the entire series I have played, so I may lack context, but when I played through that campaign blind (having borrowed the game from a friend on a whim, out of pure curiosity, because it's something I would never play otherwise), and got to that mission, it felt like it achieved something very powerful, by forcing me to participate in that kind of act, and have it make sense within the story... it felt like it demonstrated in a direct way how evil a false flag attack is, and that is a worthwhile and necessary thing to communicate... especially in the decade following 9/11. That's how I took it. I can see how people could see it differently... particularly if the topic of false flag attacks being used to justify wars of choice was not an area of concern for them, lol.
I think most people understand the narrative impact, but it seems to me that most people also are kind of intuitively picking up on how it was sort of a cheap piece of corporate shock art that at the end of the day didn't really do much besides provoke a low hanging emotional reaction and act as a publicity stunt.
Cruelty Squad is an accurate portrayal of rotting your fragile mind with recreational drugs while browsing /x/
I think the instant that you mentioned on whether you can go loud or stealth is when it truly hit me how much went into this.
Cruelty Squad is so much more than what anyone expected.
Had a chuckle thinking about how the promo code sounds like you're unsure of what it actually is.
"Use promo code, probably Jacob?"
that JFK reference made me actually laugh out loud. thank you for the great content, Jacob
This game really reminds me of the neo-revival trollge schizoid events. In short: a little trolling.
As someone who got splashed with acid in Santa Cruz this is the only experience even remotely comparable, minus the insane violence.
This game and death grips pair really well together
You spoil us mate, it's great you've got a sponsor for the video too
revenant mall cops arent invisible, you just need certain weapons to kill them. such as the rocket launcher you can get on the mall level, or their machine guns which you can get off of them after killing them with a rocket launcher.
Hell yes, I saw this game in my recommends a few days ago and said "I wish probablyJacob did a review on this"
Power In Misery
This is NOT how I expected to find out that I have superpowers.
You are the only youtuber to regularly make me instantly buy video games I've never heard of before. Take this game, for instance. The moment this video ended, I bought it.
Then I played it for 5 hours straight and forgot I needed to sleep.
This game makes me think if Juice Galaxy was a first person shooter
This dev has been in a k-hole. I love it.
I love that you introduce me to games I otherwise would have never heard about
2 videos in 2 days back to back?! is this heaven?
wait until tomorrow when the 3rd one comes out.
Totally get a Killer 7 vibe.
Can’t believe this guy hasn’t played “Critters For Sale” yet . . .
I like the airport mission in Modern Warfare. It was a damn good way to really show how terrible the villain was in a way that forced you to get personally involved.
Not everything vile in a game has to be couched in irony to be effective.
Anyway this looks neat. Very Killer7.
I'll never be able to get over the face of meth ridden Mr. Dink rotating next to the ammo counter.
one of my favorite review channels reviewing my game of the year...excellent
3:50 can't agree with that. The level was only "infamous" instead of famous because of snowflakes getting offended. And just because something is shown the way it is doesn't mean it can't make a statement nor does Cruelty Squads artsy visuals give it some inherent deep message whose satirical and dark nature cannot be shown as is.
Going by your logic, pretty much all non-animated movies and art before impressionism would have simple messages. Not true at all.
Glad to see this game getting around for publicity, it's like watching someone play the original Deus Ex while having a bad acid trip, and I'm really thrilled to see it.
I don't think I can play a game where you assassinate low-poly bernie sanders.
I can ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ).
6:30 leadtalk: are you sure about that
Please review pathologic and its remake. Seems like your kind of jam, and they're wonderful in different ways.
Punishment makes it harder? Relatable.
Thank you for tending to your squealing hogs today, we appreciate every sacrifice to our endless hunger more than you know.
I want to try this game but my pile of shame is already enormously large. Why does it have to look so absurdly interesting
This game has been on my wishlist for a while now, im glad someone finally covered it in more detail.
Probably the best overview of how the game actually plays I've heard so far
You convinced me to give the game a try. I dismissed it as a funky niche game... Which I suppose it is, but turns out it may be my sort of niche funky, even if I only go through it once or twice.
Yeah, no, those colors plus being a FPS means that I get motion sickness just watching this video. Even if I wanted to play this I couldn't.
Im with you fam. I don't normally have issues like that but looking at this actually makes me ill.
You clearly lack the CEO mindset.
Just watched your Hyper Light Drifter Review and I think you should give Outer Wilds a try. The best gaming experience I and many others ever had. Would fit your analysis of HLD well.
Easily the greatest game since Gorbino’s Quest
is there blood in the gaem because if yes my mom wont allow it
Alright, you didn’t fail me on g string I’ll give this a try.
I committed again just to help more. I hope it works like that.
armor is literally joke in cs the military Camouflage and the stealth suit are way more useful at negating damage.
3:30 Those two statements are not mutually exclusive
I am proud to be one of ten people who has actually played this game
I thought this game looked really Pretentious in a zoomer millennial cusp /X/ board burnout discord occultist kinda way until I realised it wasn't made by Americans and for some reason that's enough to make me actually wanna play it
Watched Vinny from Vinesauce play this a while back, and have been secretly hoping that you’d cover it. This is awesome.
Whenever I see this game, I can't help but remember the quote:
"I think this character is specifically designed to be annoying, in which case the developers should be congratulated for doing their job so well, and tactfully reminded that deliberately annoying is still annoying."
Oh hell yeah
When the beat drops im gonna
Well you know
This video convinced me the game is much more than what first impressions might suggest, but I think you are overselling why someone wouldnt like this game. I think most people wont play it because it looks and sounds horrible (regardless of how artistic or purposeful it is) and not because gamers cant handle tough topics or themes. I personally dont see myself playing it purely off its looks but you did give me a certain kind of respect for the game through your perspective of it.
Great review as always
I'm starting to think that Jacob makes all of these.
If only i had half the talent required to make this game
I'm not that funny and had the videos in mind with my silly joke.
God save the Spleen.
Is this game considered Biopunk?
I think cruelty squad will be the Yeezus of video games
I wanna replay it but it barely runs on my PC, getting a new one soon so that fixes itself
Also, this game apparently has a level editor, so that's cool
Never been high but I imagine this is what it'll look like.
Dunno why you had to trash No Russian, it's one of the most epic gaming moment in history, but go off.
Not really epic, when it's not really a statement. A statement of violence is something like Hotline Miami
@@pocketglove why does it have to be a statement?
@@nikolaiczernobog1232 That was the point of the mission, to be a statement.
@@pocketglove was it tho? I thought it was a publicity stunt and a way to set up the baaaaaaaaad guy
Mercenaries for the og xbox rules
How much money to do Genesis Noir ?
18:02 that looks like the hall of the mountain king, hmmmm. Thanks for the review, intresting game!
Great review as always. My head hurts.
Looks like you also refused to google what "uncanny valley" actually means.
lol the hardest difficulty is hidden behind the games resolution set it to the lowest res and it should not be to hard to find
There is also another method of unlocking it, but yeah thats one way.
This game was raised in a SOCIETY
~hog squeals intensify~
Visually, his game looks like what happens when you give a 2 year old the knowledge of ms paint and let them design the textures for everything, and then do it professionally.
How do you even begin to learn how to make things so intentionally awful
And why is there the urge to stare at it for the next 10 hours
Are sure the game is not just an embodiment of 2020?
the best game that i (personally) will never want to actually play.
This game looks like a fever dream
Yeah I've done LSD. Alot. It's not as weird as this game.
A very good look at very interesting game, thank you.
Though I'd be lying if I said I didn't have to switch over to Mandalore while I was eating.
These visuals, damn.
Can you review Dragon’s Dogma? Pleasseeee?
Love at first site with this
It's no Go but it sounds pretty good
It's nice you think of colorblind people
i don't get why people don't like the graphics the esthetic is my favorite thing about this game
Just subed to your patreon, love your work. I like it when you look at weird ass games like this that I prob wont play because I wont be able to stomach it ahah. I like your other stuff too, but I def rely on you for gems in the odd space of indie development. I found you from your Agony review, your insight and prose are great to listen to and your thoughts on the game were deeper and more substantial than the other takes I seen on that game.
Keep up the good work
Cheers to our future game developer
Hell yeah DefintelyJacob
This game sounds like it has cool mechanics so its kinda a shame it decided to have the most vile visual and general design I have ever seen to be quirky and convince me never to buy it
apparently commenting helps? idk, here you go
This looks wild. I'm curious to see other opinions of it.
Console port when?