It simply takes far too long to refresh the game. The loading times between retries is also another issue. It doesn’t impact every run, but it’s frustrating enough when it does happen - the drop in frames can really affect your enjoyment. There’s a little too much slowdown at times, which can really impact on the more complicated challenges where you’re dodging landmines and leaping off ramps one after another. There are some technical issues that are hard to chalk up to conscious design choices, though. However, when your poor character gets diced by a set of buzzsaws and their blood turns into giant, solid shards of red, you know there’s clearly a few glitches that need patching out as well. The ugly character models and environments that look like they’re straight out of a crude mid-’90s foray into 3D animation are part of the game’s purposeful low-fi aesthetic. Let’s be honest, this game isn’t going to win any awards for its looks - but you soon realise that’s kind of the point. You’ll almost certainly mess up, and almost certainly turn the air seven shades of blue, but you’ll still be having a laugh in between all those involuntary swears. Much like Getting Over It (the PC-based hit that did the rounds on Twitch for a while, inducing rage with its physics-driven ‘man climbing a mountain while a sledgehammer’ premise), Guts and Glory is all about seeking that satisfying sweet spot between avoiding obstacles, staying on your vehicle and pulling off a leaderboard-topping time. It’s crude, it’s gory and it’s totally throw-away in its ultraviolent slapstick, but that’s just part of its low-rent charm. This is the world of Guts and Glory, a physics-based pain simulator that tasks you with guiding a hapless character (or duo) through a variety of seemingly peaceful settings that just happen to be laden with arrow-flinging turrets, saws and landmines. Wait? Buzzsaws?! Oh dear, you’ve just been decapitated and delimbed by a series of deadly blades bouncing down a hill. There’s nothing quite like a peaceful bike ride through the local park.
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