Brut@l

This game is dumb and stupid and I hate it. “Brut@l” pitches itself as “a modern re-imagining of the classic ASCII dungeon crawler [“Rogue]”, but in throwing in aspects of contemporary brawlers, it loses the tension brought on by “Rogue”’s abstractions through numbers and losing much of what makes it special in the process. It’s like “re-imagining”, say, “Casablanca” through Xtranormal. This might have been acceptable if the combat impressed in any fashion and it doesn’t; the game suggests playing on a controller, as though you’ll need it to survive (you won’t). At least the art style isn’t completely worthless.

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