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  • Summary: You've spent 20 long years living in the confines of your overbearing mothers garage, your father mysteriously vanished before you were born. But hey, you had plenty of time to work out and dream about the wonders of the world.

    Sucks to be you though, people eat slime, corruption is rife
    You've spent 20 long years living in the confines of your overbearing mothers garage, your father mysteriously vanished before you were born. But hey, you had plenty of time to work out and dream about the wonders of the world.

    Sucks to be you though, people eat slime, corruption is rife and everyone wants to fight you... But maybe you can find your father and become the 'dark fist' people whisper about, somehow you could actually be humanity's savior, the one who uncovers the super secret secrets of the Goodness Corporation... Or not. It's a choose your own adventure, stay in the garage if you want.

    Life in the rat race is fast paced, time consuming and requires effective management to survive, Punch Club 2 is the same! It's literally a simulation game! Manage your time and funds, whilst climbing to the top of the fighting leagues, solving crimes, working for the police, mob, mafia and about anyone else you cross paths with. Completing quests will give you access to new fighting schools, moves, dollars, good person points and even the Lion Queen on VHS!
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  1. Aug 28, 2023
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    They fixed a few of the issues from the first game, like the daily stat decay, but the sequel is still extremely grindy and you'll have toThey fixed a few of the issues from the first game, like the daily stat decay, but the sequel is still extremely grindy and you'll have to repeat monotonous tasks for hours on end just to make slight progress.

    Furthermore, I realized after sinking quite a lot of time into the game that Strength builds are hot garbage in the later parts, to the point where I now can't progress because I'm getting obliterated even by opponents with stats lower than half of my own.
    All of this wouldn't really be an issue if I could respec and try out various different builds to find a suitable one, but there's no such function in the game. Once you've put points into a skill, there's no turning back. In other words, if you don't make damn well sure to pick the right build from the very start of the game, you've pretty much screwed yourself over and will inevitably, just like me, run into a wall that you can't get past without replaying the entire game.

    If I was playing on PC, this is where I would have used Cheat Engine or something similar to reset my skill points, but since that isn't something I can do in the PS5 version, I'm forced to quit playing the game and accept that all this game was for me was a waste of time and money.
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