True Hate Reviews

awful game

I recommend this game only for players without rage issues.

Nice graphics. Tough Game play.

A nice souls-like platformer. You may rage quit several times

True hate is what I feel for the game developers. Terrible keyboard controls without possibility of customization, purposefully deceiving platforming elements in quick succession followed by extremely slow and boring moving platforms made to lose the momentum, very long time to respawn after you lose a life, and hard reset to the start of the game if you lose all your lives. I bought it on sale but it still isn't worth it. The fact that the achievement related to the completion of the second area is already a shiny one (less than 10% of the one who bought it got that far) is already a testament to the game.

really love the art style and the soundtrack. its very addicting trying to get through each level. very unforgiving though. once you're out of health thats it. right back to the beginning. really enjoyed this one.

The only True Hate I found while playing this game was for myself, after being unable to make the most simplistic jumps after dying several times to different traps. I do believe that another good name is True Pain. I tried so hard to get access to the exit, only for that to be the wrong exit. I'm a fool, I played myself. The game looks nice though and the music is very pleasant. It makes it much harder for me to genuinely get angry at myself.

I have a lot of feelings about True Hate. Where to start... It's a 2D platformer with basic controls and levels that are actively trying to kill you. I'm not sure if the name refers to the player character's quest to kill the antagonist, or the feeling that builds inside you as you repeatedly die to cheap tricks, or the attitude of the developer towards the player. Could be all three. I confess that these kinds of platformers, where you navigate a machine of death - I'm reminded of Super Meat Boy - aren't my favourite. But I did enjoy this one. The ways to die are many and varied, from your standard spiked pits and ceilings to platforms that move as you approach or disappear without warning to sneaky lasers to fake checkpoints and ends of levels. Many of the dangers can be predicted by keeping a close eye on your surroundings, and many cannot. When you start the game it gives you the choice of having 1 life, up to 30 lives. Per level, that is - your health resets every time you clear a level. When you run out of lives, you just have to start over, and your progress can't be saved (except for how many times you die) so you need to play the whole game in a single session. I noticed the level I finally died on getting subtly easier as I ran out of lives, with the platforms I was trying to cross no longer disappearing under my feet. Didn't help in the end though~ True Hate supposedly has controller support but it didn't work for me, which left me with keyboard controls that can't be changed. WASD for movement, and Space to jump. In some places you need to jump down through the floor by pressing S + Space, but if you cannot jump down you will still jump up, which is very annoying. In one level (only one that I played, anyway) you need to hold down Control to fly, while still using WASD to dodge obstacles. Only left Ctrl works, mind, which gets strenuous fast. I needed to awkwardly use WASD with my right hand to get through that level. The graphics and music are truly gorgeous, and totally at odds with the playing experience. The art style really helps to obscure things that will kill you. Even with the frustration, it was nice to explore these environments, figuring out what's safe to touch and what isn't, finding the secret paths to get around dead ends. I bought this game for 1.15AUD, I don't think I'd be willing to pay 11.50AUD. But like I said, it's not really my sort of thing.