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  1. Jul 14, 2022
    4
    The problem with roguelite games is repetition. You need really good core gameplay to make a roguelite or roguelike work, otherwise it just ends up repetitive and boring the player. Without greater challenges to overcome and interesting enemies to fight, it can quickly become tedious – and reusing the same few areas over and over again can make this even worse.

    Thus, it is strange that
    The problem with roguelite games is repetition. You need really good core gameplay to make a roguelite or roguelike work, otherwise it just ends up repetitive and boring the player. Without greater challenges to overcome and interesting enemies to fight, it can quickly become tedious – and reusing the same few areas over and over again can make this even worse.

    Thus, it is strange that an AAA studio like Arkane fell into this trap.

    The core conceit of Deathloop is that you are trapped on an island in a time loop with a bunch of people who want to party for all eternity (the Eternalists). A few things quickly become clear:

    1) Only you and Juliana, your nemesis, remember things between loops.
    2) There are four areas or “levels” in the game, and you can visit up to four “levels” in a day, either repeating the same ones or going to different ones.
    3) After you’ve visited four places (or died three times), the loop resets.
    4) There are eight Visionaries, leaders amongst the Eternalists, who are the core of the loop. You must kill all eight of them in a single loop to win.
    5) None of the Visionaries will naturally hang out with each other, as a deliberate means of making it impossible to break the loop.

    Thus, the core of the game is to figure out how to manipulate the time loop in order to get the visionaries to leave the areas they hang out in normally and go to other areas, grouping up so that you can kill a number of them at once.

    Unfortunately, while this SOUNDS really cool, in real life, the game basically is bimodal – each Visionary has at most one way to manipulate them into doing this, and some don’t have any, so there is a very particular solution that you must follow to solve the game. The game pretty much leads you to this, though, so it isn’t overly hard to figure out – which also kind of robs the game of a feeling of agency.

    Indeed, the game is remarkably inflexible for being a game about a time loop where your goal is to manipulate the loop to your advantage – there are very few ways of doing so, and most of them aren’t particularly interesting or exciting. While it is cool to show up “prepared” to a few things, by and large it is pretty mediocre, and after the first couple loops the game runs out of tricks.

    Rather than being a puzzle, it’s just a kind of drawn-out fairly linear affair, where you can attack different questlines in whatever order, but eventually you’ll figure out what you’re doing.

    The fact that you can “save” equipment across runs after you complete the second major questline also means that you don’t really have to interact with 99% of the weapon drops in the game for loops after the first couple you go through, which further increases the repetition, especially once you figure out where certain key weapons are and farm them a bit so you can have them every level.

    The enemies in the game are all normal humans, with only the visionaries presenting any sort of challenge; even still, you will quickly become more dangerous than they are and be able to rather easily overwhelm them.

    That leaves Julianna, which, in normal gameplay, can be an enemy human player who invades your game and tries to kill you – a frustrating experience when you are trying to make progress, but at least a somewhat neat idea. Unfortunately, playing in this mode also doesn’t allow you to pause the game at all, which is really annoying, as even if there isn’t a Juliana around, you still can’t pause.

    If you turn off the multiplayer, she becomes an AI, and while more powerful than the Visionaries, she’s still not terribly difficult to overcome, removing the only real challenge the game has.

    The only thing Deathloop really has is style. Deathloop is set in faux-1960s, though it quickly becomes clear that this is some sort of alternate reality. It has some dialogue between Colt (the protagonist) and Juliana, and some floating text along with notes and tape recordings in the environment which help you piece together the story. But these mostly run out within a few loops, with only a trickle of story remaining afterwards, and because you can do things in whatever order, you can figure out many of the game’s secrets “early”, and none of them are particularly difficult to see coming.

    In the end, I was disappointed in this game. It was not up to the quality of Prey, it lacked variety in the challenges it threw at you, it was overly repetitive (and too long relative to the amount of content it had), the plot was okay at best, and the ending was a disappointing little cutscene.

    There are a lot of better games than this one; if you like the style and the core conceit, it might be okay, but it will never be great.
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  2. Sep 17, 2021
    4
    WAIT FOR SALE

    First off, I'm a big dishonored fan. I really like the gameplay, killing feels super satisfying and I like trying different ways to kill my targets. I understand the game isnt a narrative game in its core, neither a pvp game in its core, neither a rogue like.... but in the end of the game I was still expecting more stuff to be introduced, more maps, mechanics, new enemies,
    WAIT FOR SALE

    First off, I'm a big dishonored fan. I really like the gameplay, killing feels super satisfying and I like trying different ways to kill my targets.

    I understand the game isnt a narrative game in its core, neither a pvp game in its core, neither a rogue like.... but in the end of the game I was still expecting more stuff to be introduced, more maps, mechanics, new enemies, better PVP experience, better rogue like experience... I'm was trying to find when things were going to start getting more interesting, and it didnt. I finished the game and now theres simply nothing else to do and no reason at all to keep doing that pvp.

    I do understand the logic of, oh you paid for 15/20 hour entertainment, but I have all the rights to come here and advise people that it was 17 hours of waiting something to happen and it never did, there was not a fulfillment, not a closure.

    I did 2 endings so far, the first one is extremely shallow, like oh its over, ok... time to move on... and the second is just a normal loop reset...

    this is definitely not a full priced game, it clearly uses mechanics from their older games, which would be 100% fine if they would add more to it, and if the game didnt feel more shallow than every single other game they put up. this is clearly a ""spin off series"" that should have a 20$ price tag.

    Just to be clear, I really liked the placement of the game, love the 60's vibe with all the technology, I loved the characters and the voice actors did a sublime work.

    I normally dont do any rants like this, but I just feel the cash grab rushed product feeling on this one, and they are still getting praised for doing a masterpiece product.
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  3. May 31, 2022
    4
    It starts good but with each loop starts to wear you off ... The "bad" guys have no weight, you only learn things from them reading or by audiologs. It needed more cutscenes in my opinion also interactions with juliana are not enough. But the worst of all is after you gather all the clues and learn from them you execute your plan just to have some awful endings that doesn't explain nothingIt starts good but with each loop starts to wear you off ... The "bad" guys have no weight, you only learn things from them reading or by audiologs. It needed more cutscenes in my opinion also interactions with juliana are not enough. But the worst of all is after you gather all the clues and learn from them you execute your plan just to have some awful endings that doesn't explain nothing or close characters arc at all. I loved dishonored series but Arkane f*ckd it up with this one.
    The a.i is terrible and it doesn't get better by moving forward in the game like some people says.
    The concept wasn't wrong but it could have some more levels, and enemy variety (its all the same 5 npc's) what i mean is just because its a loop based game that doen't mean that has to be so damn repetitive, theres more they could have done for example more levels, weapon modifications,more cutscenes, better powers and not the same from dishonored and the list go on.
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  4. Sep 17, 2021
    4
    The PC port is unplayable. Too many bugs and the graphic optimization is terrible. Wait for patches.
  5. Apr 30, 2022
    4
    It's the worst arkane game to date.
    With those clever level design and tricky story no mechanics is working as intended. Lack of anticheat is killing whole idea of invasions. Color grade destroyed by real drop chances which is high for epic weapons. And no such exploration you may see. You can pick-up every object in the map without reading and it will appear next session as floating
    It's the worst arkane game to date.
    With those clever level design and tricky story no mechanics is working as intended. Lack of anticheat is killing whole idea of invasions. Color grade destroyed by real drop chances which is high for epic weapons. And no such exploration you may see. You can pick-up every object in the map without reading and it will appear next session as floating bullet.
    Too easy to be interested in, too unfair to compete.
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  6. Sep 16, 2021
    4
    Good game - extremely poor optimization or Denuvo integration.
    When you have 100+ FPS on high-end rig, then suddenly 5-10 FPS for less then a second for no reason and then again 100+ FPS and this repeats 2-3 times per minute - that is not normal.
  7. Aug 5, 2022
    4
    I couldn't get past the tutorial section as the game kept soft-locking and forcing me to start over. Either I am very unlucky or this game is very buggy, or both.
  8. Sep 16, 2021
    4
    Another modern release with horrifyingly bad AI. The game is way too easy and lack all of the charm that Arkane usually delivers with multiple paths and options to clear a mission. Here, because it's so easy and the AI is so terrible, even if you find a "smart" way to do what you set out to do, you don't feel like you've accomplished anything. The levels are rather small, the gun varietyAnother modern release with horrifyingly bad AI. The game is way too easy and lack all of the charm that Arkane usually delivers with multiple paths and options to clear a mission. Here, because it's so easy and the AI is so terrible, even if you find a "smart" way to do what you set out to do, you don't feel like you've accomplished anything. The levels are rather small, the gun variety is not the interesting and the skills/abilities also lack in the wow factor. But worst of all is still the AI... god it's terrible.

    Then we have poor performance, Denuvo crap, stuttering, lag on multiplayer, ah it's just quite sad really. Should have been much much better. I don't see me putting any more time into this.
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  9. May 27, 2022
    4
    Игра безумно скучная. Халтура: создали четыре относительно небольшие карты, которые мы будем проходить раз по 10 каждую, если не больше. Скучный нудный геймплей, неинтересные персонажи, неоригинальная идея, так как уже есть с десяток фильмов про петлю времени, данная концепция подходит для небольшого инди-проекта на три часа, не больше. Единственный плюс - это стилистика и звук. ОднозначноИгра безумно скучная. Халтура: создали четыре относительно небольшие карты, которые мы будем проходить раз по 10 каждую, если не больше. Скучный нудный геймплей, неинтересные персонажи, неоригинальная идея, так как уже есть с десяток фильмов про петлю времени, данная концепция подходит для небольшого инди-проекта на три часа, не больше. Единственный плюс - это стилистика и звук. Однозначно худший проект от Arkane Studios, не рекомендую. Expand
  10. Apr 30, 2022
    4
    After playing the dishonored masterpiecies, this game is so disapointing, i can't believe it's crafted by the same studio. The ambience and the graphics are specially awful, my eyes bleed watching the chaotic mix of 60's pop style, old scottish village and landscape, and cyberpunk technology.
  11. Sep 25, 2021
    4
    Great begin. The interesting visual style, but ... They promised a very cool immersive sim, but in the end, it turned out to be a very linear parody of dishonored. The game is linear. There is very little variability. The finale of the game is disappointing. There are also a lot of bugs.

    You can wait for a 50-60% discount and take it, but buying it for the full price is stupidity.
  12. Sep 25, 2021
    4
    A quick summary for deathloop on PC
    Cons
    the recommended and minimum specs are overblown but not by too much the game has a horrible stuttering issue when moving the mouse, however playing on Dual shock 4 the stuttering vanishes entirely the gameplay tutorial clips show ps5 controller prompts instead of PC Prompts which shows a very careless port. the performance is absolutely
    A quick summary for deathloop on PC
    Cons
    the recommended and minimum specs are overblown but not by too much
    the game has a horrible stuttering issue when moving the mouse, however playing on Dual shock 4 the stuttering vanishes entirely
    the gameplay tutorial clips show ps5 controller prompts instead of PC Prompts which shows a very careless port.
    the performance is absolutely dreadful and the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is REQUIRED TO GET A PLAYABLE EXPERIENCE!!

    Pros:
    The story and characters are great
    the game is incredibly detailed with small objects in the background being highly detailed
    Good game length and very inventive gameplay mechanic.

    Conclusion:
    Only buy If you don't have a PS5 (Like most of us don't) Or You have an RTX 3090 and plan for ultra graphics 60fps.

    The Game is good story, gameplay and length wise but too buggy and unoptimized for the time being

    if on steam i would only buy if it was on sale for 20 dollars or less and they fixed most of the issues present at the moment.

    Mr Maxwell.
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  13. Jun 4, 2022
    4
    Its a mess. A not well made mess. Messy mechanics, messy narrative and messy characters. Not recommended.
  14. Nov 18, 2021
    4
    It's poorly optimized and I found very little fun in playing it. It's an average rougelike game to me at best.
  15. Dec 30, 2021
    4
    Story is boring, optimization is still not great (even though graphics are Fortnite), repetitive gameplay. Only nice thing about this game is that it gives you the choice to do stealth. Other than that this game is the biggest disappointment of 2021 for me. I give it 4/10 because it inspired me to replay the whole Dishonored series and some mechanics are similar to the ones in Dishonored.Story is boring, optimization is still not great (even though graphics are Fortnite), repetitive gameplay. Only nice thing about this game is that it gives you the choice to do stealth. Other than that this game is the biggest disappointment of 2021 for me. I give it 4/10 because it inspired me to replay the whole Dishonored series and some mechanics are similar to the ones in Dishonored. At first I thought the game wants to evolve Dishonored style gameplay, but all it did was copy it and mix it with "funny" and quirky dialogues and characters and a very chiseled Hitman gameplay - think how you will kill person A so persons B don't kill you. I also appreciated this but again it is made poorly. Expand
  16. Jun 16, 2022
    4
    If you're going to make a game that restrincts users with uncapable hardware, AT LEAST meke it work correctly, i have a RTX 2070 and there's no reason on why i had to reset my drivers just for it to allow me to play the game.

    Also the game, ironically, is insanely repetitive, you do the same exact thing for every mission.
  17. Sep 21, 2022
    4
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    only worth 30 dollar
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    -unoptimized, stupid ai , very rebitive boring recycled from dishonored in a bad way and only 4 small maps.
    -play dishonored instead.
  18. Apr 20, 2022
    3
    За последнее время я давно не видел более уныло Г!! Disрhonored это был шедевр!! А это просто помойка!! Идея может и хорошая - но исполнение напрочь отсутствует!
  19. Sep 16, 2021
    3
    The optimization of this game is beyond bad. Even with a RTX 3080 and high-end PC it shutters like crazy. Quite unplayable.
    The game is also so, so easy that's quite insulting to be honest.
    Graphics are meh.
    Story concept is interesting.
  20. Sep 26, 2021
    3
    Broken&shallow

    - had micro stutters at game release, now after some patching it won't even start (Ryzen 5600X + RTX 3080 with latest drivers), note that no other games have this issues, many people suspect Denuvo... DO NOT BUY until they fix it/remove this crazy DRM and even then get it on sale because: - it's a step back from Dishonored games and Prey - stupid A.I. - not many
    Broken&shallow

    - had micro stutters at game release, now after some patching it won't even start (Ryzen 5600X + RTX 3080 with latest drivers), note that no other games have this issues, many people suspect Denuvo...
    DO NOT BUY until they fix it/remove this crazy DRM and even then get it on sale because:
    - it's a step back from Dishonored games and Prey
    - stupid A.I.
    - not many interactive assets in game
    - broken stealth
    - lots of bugs
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  21. Apr 27, 2023
    3
    I played it for 2 hours straight and was bored by it. I played stealthily and I noticed that AI is awful. They do not see you through the window of your apartment, not see you when you are loudly slashing their friends even when you just duck in plain sight 50 meters away but as soon as you stand up, they hear you even behind the wall. And when it comes to stand-off, they react veryI played it for 2 hours straight and was bored by it. I played stealthily and I noticed that AI is awful. They do not see you through the window of your apartment, not see you when you are loudly slashing their friends even when you just duck in plain sight 50 meters away but as soon as you stand up, they hear you even behind the wall. And when it comes to stand-off, they react very slowly, sometimes running in place and missing shots on me. Hacking their machines makes this game super easy. Furthermore, you can make them friendly and turn it against them which is just a terrible idea.


    The game is divided into 4-day stages and each is played in a different region, you always appear somewhere from underground. It is easy to run away, hide and you can die twice every loop. I thought to myself this game is very repetitive and I was curious whether it becomes more fun later on, I watched an IGN review, and they only praised the game and showed what I played already, they gave it 10 - masterpiece. Not reflecting the real quality. Objectively speaking the game has some terrible AI and interesting level design but is very demanding on mid-range gaming PCs. It has repetitive game-loops, useless character customization because it is first person, and the story is not really funny as it is trying to be not serious.


    Then I watched a different review from Classic game reviews and the guy mentioned the problems I have with the game giving it real objective review and IGN proves once again it breeds incompetent reviewers who are not talking about the game issues, moreover, say it is the best game.
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  22. Nov 20, 2021
    3
    Лично мне игра показалась нереально скучной, карта маленькая и некрасивая, графика хуже чем в дизонорде, как шутер игра плохая, потому что стрельба никакая и противники очень тупые, анимации убогие, все будто деревянное
    как стелс игра тоже ни о чем, ии на уровне игр 2000-х
    как рпг тоже хз, выглядит дико и не к месту сюжета просто считай нет, развязка наитупейшая концепт с временными
    Лично мне игра показалась нереально скучной, карта маленькая и некрасивая, графика хуже чем в дизонорде, как шутер игра плохая, потому что стрельба никакая и противники очень тупые, анимации убогие, все будто деревянное
    как стелс игра тоже ни о чем, ии на уровне игр 2000-х
    как рпг тоже хз, выглядит дико и не к месту
    сюжета просто считай нет, развязка наитупейшая
    концепт с временными петлями уже надоел и такое ощущение что из всех игр и фильмов что я знаю в дезлупе эта идея реализована наихудшим образом
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  23. Nov 25, 2021
    3
    This is by far the most disappointing project that Arkane had done. Most of the abilities, weapons and skills are literally just taken and recycled from their previous title '' Dishonored ''. The game actually takes a ton of things from Dishonored but does them way worse than they should be. The game play mechanic of ''Loops'' is not used to its full potential and by the middle of the gameThis is by far the most disappointing project that Arkane had done. Most of the abilities, weapons and skills are literally just taken and recycled from their previous title '' Dishonored ''. The game actually takes a ton of things from Dishonored but does them way worse than they should be. The game play mechanic of ''Loops'' is not used to its full potential and by the middle of the game it becomes a tedious chore of checklists. The Story was fine for the most part but nothing that interesting. All of your ''Targets'' are washed down characters with barely any background and story and look exactly like any other NPC which make them barely distinguishable from the other basic enemies. The optimization for the PC is one just awful and they still haven't fixed most of the basic issues that the game has. I would say avoid this game since it feels like they have barely tried to make a functional, entertaining and provoking game and failed miserably by giving up half-way through. Expand
  24. Sep 19, 2021
    3
    Deathloop gets 10 out of 10 from Gamespot, IGN and other popular titles. Our peach patriarch didn’t finish playing, but he always recommends it. And no one says anything about bugs - even on PS5 (on PC, people are already drowning the game in negative comments). The technical execution of the game is terrible, the problem with sudden slowdowns (thanks Denuvo) and lags in multiplayer wasDeathloop gets 10 out of 10 from Gamespot, IGN and other popular titles. Our peach patriarch didn’t finish playing, but he always recommends it. And no one says anything about bugs - even on PS5 (on PC, people are already drowning the game in negative comments). The technical execution of the game is terrible, the problem with sudden slowdowns (thanks Denuvo) and lags in multiplayer was revealed on the PC.

    And yes, the publications as one forget to tell about the sh^tty plot, bad graphics and style, a disappointing ending and the last "raid" with critical problems in game design. Game journalism becomes so obedient when he reviews PlayStation exclusives ... Why would that be?
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  25. Sep 16, 2021
    3
    Maybe the game is way better on consoles, but on the PC it is poorly optimized. Me and 3 of my friends who also bought it got the same poor performance with different configurations. Initially I did like the loop. The island, even if small, is well put together and with the different day periods, you have a "false" sense of dynamism. The gun sounds are great, but the characters are waaaaayMaybe the game is way better on consoles, but on the PC it is poorly optimized. Me and 3 of my friends who also bought it got the same poor performance with different configurations. Initially I did like the loop. The island, even if small, is well put together and with the different day periods, you have a "false" sense of dynamism. The gun sounds are great, but the characters are waaaaay to vocal on the Fks. Like waaaay. The AI is dumb and this affects the difficulty greatly. After two days and once you get a decent gun, there is no need to go stealth anymore.
    I stopped playing after 15h because I got bored out of my mind. During those 15 hours, PVP was on and not once got my game invaded. I also tried to enter someone else's game without succes.

    With all this, how come this game gets a 10/10 by so many "professional" reviewers is beyond me.
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  26. Dec 21, 2021
    3
    the game looks exactly the same as dishonored 2 gameplay environment abilities exept that you use guns that makes it a lot easier to kill enemies and the Ai of these enemies is so dump so instead of playing stealthy like dishonored you just show your self and kill them from one place you never runs out of bullets never run out of blood because there's a plenty of it everywhere the onlythe game looks exactly the same as dishonored 2 gameplay environment abilities exept that you use guns that makes it a lot easier to kill enemies and the Ai of these enemies is so dump so instead of playing stealthy like dishonored you just show your self and kill them from one place you never runs out of bullets never run out of blood because there's a plenty of it everywhere the only thing I liked is the soundtrack Expand
  27. Jul 1, 2023
    3
    Jogo estremamente pesado exige um PC de pelo menos 5 mil reais para ser jogado ainda bem que ele chegou no geforce Now para ser possível jogado em PC ruins em estão de gameplay tá boa melhor que dishonored e história é confusa no começo mais que você vai jogando vai ficando melhor diferente dos jogos da ubisoft que começa bem e depois piora
  28. Dec 6, 2021
    3
    big fan of Dishonored and Prey, deathloop doesnt catch the interesting point where i should stay playing the game, the character is good but story is lacking

    gameplay mechanic - mediocre
    story - mediocre
    art design - good
    level design - good
    graphic - mediocre
    optimization - bad
  29. Jan 10, 2022
    3
    I know why have reviewers/youtubers chosen this game as one of the best games in 2021. Because there was no good releases in this year so they had to choose this.
    My opinion :
    - **** gameplay mechanics (Super complicated and if you die, you can't respawn in your last checkpoint and it's possible to lose all of your gained Residuum and if you die thrice, you gotta play the mission over.
    I know why have reviewers/youtubers chosen this game as one of the best games in 2021. Because there was no good releases in this year so they had to choose this.
    My opinion :
    - **** gameplay mechanics (Super complicated and if you die, you can't respawn in your last checkpoint and it's possible to lose all of your gained Residuum and if you die thrice, you gotta play the mission over. Your health doesn't regenerate automatically so you'd die easily if you're not agile enough. (No difficulty option). ALL of your finds and loots, including trinkets and abilities, except double jump, will be dispossessed on every next mission (on a new day). Worth mentioning that the double jump mechanic doesn't work like other games and it doesn't propel you and it's like being held by an obstruction or gravity)
    - Mediocre story
    - Mediocre graphics but bad optimization
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  30. Feb 5, 2022
    3
    And you thought EA Games were critical bribefests. All this game is, is....just...there...
Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 25
  2. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 17, 2022
    100
    No need to think twice, we had a lot of time loop games. But Deathloop can get the most out of all elements. And whether you're protecting the loop or destroying it, don't forget to die a few times, it's fun.
  2. Nov 19, 2021
    77
    Too much hand-holding, some glaring omissions in the narrative and its somewhat weak AI do let Deathloop down, but still, it’s a rare and exciting game made for both fans of Corvo Attano and those who never set foot in the Empire of the Isles before.
  3. Nov 1, 2021
    70
    I applaud Arkane for switching up the Dishonored stealth/action formula here, and for addressing a few of the issues Dishonored had. Deathloop just feels too limited by comparison, though, and too repetitive by half besides. I know a lot of people who really like it, but it fell pretty flat for me.