5/5 ★ – TheHBJK's review of SUPERHOT.

Having replayed and beaten this 3 times now, there’s no doubt in my mind that Superhot is one of the best games of the 2010s. Something about this game caught my attention back when I was 15 years old, I seen a few clips of it online and was immediately intrigued, bought it on Steam day 1 and fell in love with it. Its initial concept it’s really interesting, with time only moving when you do, but the way it’s executed leads to some incredibly fun and intense situations that no other first person shooter is able to pull off. I was fully in on the hype train and was really hoping for a sequel that never properly came… Then I played it a few years later on my Xbox One X through gamepass, I thought it’d be much worse with a controller but I was wrong, it controls incredibly well even with the slower movement option…in fact it plays the exact same because the way the game is built with its core mechanics means that it lends itself to working on anything. That goes for both the controls and the optimisation, which is fantastic by the way, it ran buttery smooth on both platforms I played it on. Another 4 years or so passed and I seen this for sale on the eShop and decided to play it on my Switch 2 with my fiancée, who I’d been desperate to play it with since I’d been missing the game a lot in recent years. It’s just as good as I remember it, maybe even better? It’s incredibly tight, the controls are tight, the story is tight, and the level design is watertight too. It’s incredible to me how the team managed to knock it out of the park on the first try like this, it’s a game with a gameplay loop so addicting that even after its short runtime expires, you’re just itching for more. I love an experimental game that bends the mind and is able to play with the genre is parades itself as and create an experience like no other, and this game does this flawlessly. The tagline for this is fitting, as it really is the most innovative shooter I’ve played in years, almost a decade and multiple replays later. I wasn’t a big fan of the DLC / spin off title that came after this in Mind Control Delete, and I unfortunately don’t own a VR headset, so I can’t play the reportedly best one in the franchise, but I really hope that one day we get a true sequel to this game. I would give anything to have another tightly crafted 2-3 hour Superhot game that leaves a smile on my face like this has time and time again. A masterpiece of the medium that’s aged beautifully so far, 10/10.