Brotato: Abyssal Terrors Review (Whispers)
I love everything about Brotato, but this new expansion is way over tuned in difficulty (Danger 5) for my taste. The base game experience where you carefully guide your Tater through leveling and buying from the shop using their unique characteristics to achieve a build you put together is out the window for many reasons:
This is for Danger 5 only
* Most of the Taters on the Abyssal map feel so under-powered, you find yourself forcing a build/weapon to keep the DPS up while you have to play as a squishy on most runs, Normally I'm able to achieve some level of tankiness on Crash Zone.
*Mobs hit way harder on Abyssal purely due to the curse mechanic and the inability to control cursed spawns you might as well forgo getting armor and stack Dodge/HP/Regen.
* The overall behavior/density of the Abyssal mobs can ruin your run with RNG. It becomes a Bullet Hell on waves 17, 19 and any wave 15+ that's a horde wave, you can hardly see the screen it just feels cheap compared the Crash Zone. The A.I. of the new Mobs is also questionable, like fighting meth-ed up cats just janky and all over the place shooting and charging at random.
* Too many items added and without a 5th slot in the shop your much less likely to find some key items you want for your Tater, and less likely to get your weapons upgraded. Are you doing a Luck build and looking for a Pearl early to snowball? Good luck re-rolling! So much $$ wasted just re-rolling to get your weapons.
* The new Taters are more of a puzzle to solve rather than strong additions to fight the abyss map, I have more danger 5 wins with the older Taters at this point. That's not necessarily an issue but I would assume the new Taters would be more fitting for the maps difficulty spike. They feel like its one and done, no need to replay because there's not much build diversity.
*Most of the new items are "Meh", a few of the new weapons are decent but I'm not sure if its worth clogging up your already clogged shop rolls.
TLDR: New map is way over-tuned in difficulty. The new Taters, items and weapons are just "Meh" at best and with all the additional items in the shop you will be frustrated trying to get your build together. Not to mention the A.I. is on crack here (Danger 5 Abyssal Map).