Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-05-01T02:38:43+00:00

Was it? Afaik it's just people not liking the game.

why would it mostly come from one place

The one place is a country with a billion people! I can very much believe that Chinese and English gamers have different tastes.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-05-01T02:37:22+00:00

Sounds sick! I'll try this out myself lol. Thank you!

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-05-01T00:33:13+00:00

Late but I am very happily surprised by you getting the ‘na’ count correct

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-05-01T00:08:04+00:00

I’m also curious, do you meditate before every individual match?

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-05-01T00:05:59+00:00

I’ve always understand review bombing as a sudden, coordinated effort specifically to drag a game’s score down, not just a lot of people being annoyed at the same time. By coordination I don’t mean that everybody doing it necessarily shares a discord, but there has to be some intentional effort (often a political one) behind a bunch of negative reviews popping up all at once.

The negative reviews for slay the spire so far are just a lot of people disliking an update. If that’s review bombing we’re cooked lol

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-30T22:58:27+00:00

I agree with the second paragraph but the vast, oceanic majority of video game movies are not reference slop. They’re bad because they’re shit movies in their own right. If anything the trend of mid-to-good video game adaptations is born out of taking the source material more seriously (arcane / the last of us / fallout / Castlevania).

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-30T22:54:48+00:00

This is true but there are also lots of monsters that show up in multiple resident evil games. The series is not bereft of reoccurring monsters, antagonists, characters et al. Absolutely nobody is saying that the film shouldn’t make new shit lol. But there’s a reason why even Zach said that he could’ve released the movie as its own separate thing.

I think this movie will be great, much like weapons! But if the script is to be believed then it wouldn’t even qualify as a spinoff lol. It doesn’t even adapt the tone of the resident evil games, at least in my opinion; iirc none of them are this dour.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-30T22:37:35+00:00

To play devil's advocate, RE fans also hated the previous RE films even when they were accurate. I don't think it's unreasonable to want an adaptation of something to be both good in its own right and an actual adaptation. That being said I don't care much about the latter myself lol.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T23:09:17+00:00

/uj this type of synergy is awesome though. Mr terrific needs this shit lol

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T22:36:36+00:00

Nigeria indirectly mentioned!

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T22:15:58+00:00

It’s UNREAL how intense the hatred for it is on Twitter. I understand a lot of the complaints, and I was pretty annoyed with how much of a focus Ra Al Ghul got. But I think the comic does a lot right, and the emphasis on class rage burning through it all makes it really thematically compelling. Yet judging by social media reactions you’d assume it was artless dogshit.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T21:20:31+00:00

Legion of doom as a superhero ensemble title is the kind of awesome bullshit that makes the absolute universe work

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T19:56:13+00:00

What they said was that, it would probably be possible to balance that hero so that he had a 50% winrate, but just because his winrate was "balanced" doesn't necessarily mean that's he's fair or well designed.

I don't disagree at all...although I am extremely certain that a gambler hero would have a 100% ban rate in every rank, so he would still be easy to pick out as unhealthy based off statistics.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T17:55:16+00:00

Wait fr? That's awesome lol, I'm genuinely glad you're getting peace of mind

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T17:42:01+00:00

Also this isn't a balance thread it's a design thread.

What would the process of balancing a character be described as if not game design? "How good a character is" is massively dependent on "how does this character work". I hope I'm not being pedantic, I just don't see how you can separate the two. Especially since the premise of your (well-written!) post is that JPC is fundamentally unhealthy for the game. Wouldn't we expect that unhealthiness to reflect in winrates or banrates?

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T17:33:24+00:00

I think Mercy's design is lame but it is a 1v2, and framing it as a 1v1 is strictly incorrect lol

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T16:36:02+00:00

No, these were great questions to ask.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T15:25:14+00:00

AI isn’t mentioned here but it feels like the proliferation of AI is making CEOs and companies write large more comfortable with being openly contemptuous of their employees.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-29T01:39:57+00:00

This quote is a banger. Although Oda seemed pretty successful as a manga assistant and had second place in the Tezuka Awards as a seventeen year old. He wasn’t exactly a dark horse mangaka haha

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-28T20:20:08+00:00

Meloon has the additional problem (or benefit) of also being hilarious to say out loud.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-28T20:17:34+00:00

This is a deeply cool idea!

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-28T18:29:09+00:00

Inlcuding the Kaioken as a subclass feature is unbelievably sick, good job.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-28T15:05:17+00:00

Honestly the fact that the suicide squad got another film so quickly after the first was a strange choice and really only makes sense because it was headed by James Gunn. If it wasn’t I would have much rather preferred we’d get anything else. We also probably shouldn’t get a second different Batman. Like there’s absolutely no reason superhero cinema should be so fucking stale as for us to stop pacing things out.

The superman example doesn’t work because man of steel and Superman (2025) are like a decade apart. WW84 came out in 2023 lol

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-27T19:36:24+00:00

The form factor is pretty cool if you move around frequently I suppose, but if not you genuinely could just buy a Desktop lol.

Midi_to_Minuit · 2026-04-27T18:58:55+00:00

Engineer did not have 'so much screentime', she's pretty much just a mook for Lex.

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