Hell Is Us was one of the best games of 2025, and nobody cares.
blame Silksong
I cared. Game needed some work though, and if they learn the right lessons the sequel will be S-Tier. Great atmosphere and visuals, exploration was mostly fun, combat was solid. I wanted to see more of the grotesque characters like the guy from the interrogation though. Definitely one of the coolest games I played last year. I’m glad that more devs are realising that you can do a Souslike game AND have an actual legible, clear and interesting plotline and, oh, what a surprise - it’s actually a fucking good thing.
>>733773890Really cause I played the demo and it was a janky, repetitive, basic souls clone
>>733774187tard
Yup! Next thread.
>>733773890It was mid
>>733773890damn i need a mid-ugly depressed smoking gf so bad
>>733776161you're a midwit
>>733776326I deal with them all day in the hotel I work at, feel free to take one.
>>733773890It had a great setting and world building with a lot of effort put into it, but that's it, making it a souls like kind of dragged it down. I think a semi-open world survival horror like Evil Within 2 would've worked out better for the game they were trying to do. Also big props for having the courage to show and tell the horrors of war like genocide and rape
>>733774351>>733776356Nice argument oh wait there was none fuck off I’m so tired of Eastern Europe jank
>>733773890The title instantly turned me off. Hell IS Us? Who thought that sounded good? They couldn't have paid a translator $10 to pick a better, more syntactically correct title? Yea I think I'm gonna pass.
>>733776458hmm okay thanks. i was thinking about getting a job at a hotel recently, i just need to produce like 1300 bucks a month and I do not want a job that asks much of me.
>>733776582NTA but screeching "eurojank" is not an argument, so you don't really get to call anyone out.
>>733776779Grammatically, “Hell Is Us” is completely valid English. It’s just elliptical/poetic. The structure is:[Subject] + [Linking Verb] + [Predicate Nominative]Hell + is + usThe omission of “we” instead of “us” is stylistic. “Hell is we” would sound worse because predicate pronouns after linking verbs are formal and archaic in modern English.More importantly it’s clearly thematic rather than literal. The title implies hell isn’t a place but human nature, we create our own damnation, horror is internal and social, not supernatural.Which is honestly pretty classic existential hook. If anything, the title is doing what titles are supposed to do which is signal tone and theme in three words. You can dislike it, but calling it “syntactically incorrect” is peak ESL niggerbrained.
>>733778049Fair enough
>>733773890It was really fucking cool
I enjoyed it well enough, wouldn't mind a sequel at some point.I didnt like that the zones weren't self contained, having to go back to a previous zone cause you got a key on a later stage didnt gel very well. Also enemies were extremely samey, like extremely, oh sure this one is blue infused so it will morph into a different blob with 1 different attackAlso didnt like how i was literally immortal for like 90% of the game and then once you reach the tier 3 enemies they could one shoot you. The difficulty was terribly implemented.Also also the level under the reservoir by the lake made no sense.I enjoyed the world building and the grim status of the world, every npc sadder than the last including a reference to "for sale baby shoes, never worn".The vibes of the game were immaculate.
>>733773890I enjoyed it. It was a but empty. Needed more creative enemies and variety. Would buy a sequel.
