8.3 hours played
Written 13 days ago
While the concept of this game is wonderfully chaotic and fun, it runs flat after the first couple minutes and I just simply can't recommend it. I bought this game not by looking at the marketing, but due to the fact my coworker at IGN in the breakroom told me of this awesome one-off mission that he played in a game. He described to me the "super-fun pigeon hunting action" in Postal 2 and that I needed to play it right now.
I was hooked. I dropped my crack pipe and opened the Steam app on my iPhone 16 Pro to buy Postal 2 for a sweet, sweet $1.99 USD on the spot. I was going to spend that money on child support, but this was way more important. I sped home after that and downloaded the game.
Most of my playthrough was uneventful. I would attempt to shoot pigeons from the sky to get rid of the tremendous boredom that I had while playing, but there were no pigeons to be seen! My coworker had lied to me and I was devastated. But I was determined. Determined to see when this super-fun pigeon hunting action would appear.
And that’s when I heard it. “Time to relocate some pigeons.”
I have been sleep-playing (a special skill that only IGN reviewers possess similar to sleepwalking) for most of this playthrough until I heard Postal Dude say that beautiful 5 sentence and 25 letter word I have been waiting to hear for about 6 hours. It is time. I brace myself for the adventure that awaits me with my newly found rocket launcher.
But then, just as I reach climax, a record scratch plays and a video starts with what I assume is the CEO of video game company Running With Scissors, Vince Desi. He seems to be mad on the phone. “Why are you so exasperated, CEO of video game company Running With Scissors, Vince Desi?” I ask him through my computer screen. But as soon as I do that, Postal 2 writer Steve Wik hands him a piece of paper. The proposal of a pigeon mission.
What did I find? A secret developer commentary on how this super-fun pigeon hunting mission in my copy of Postal 2 for a sweet, sweet $1.99 USD on Steam? I knew the voices in my head telling me that this game is better than Cuphead were true. Just as the voices calmed down and I regained my senses, I saw the words. Those damn dreaded words. “Super-fun pigeon hunting mission cancelled due to budgeting issues.”
I. was. LIVID. The coworker that I put all my trust into had lied to me all this time. Why would he do this to me? To watch me die of boredom!? And as for CEO of video game company Running With Scissors, Vince Desi... how DARE you cancel what could've been the most revolutionary and outstanding mission in gaming due to “budget issues”?? Debt exists for a reason, you know.
So, with this game making me depressed for the rest of my life knowing that Postal Dude got to experience super-fun pigeon hunting without me makes me wish this game was never made in the first place. Fuck you Running With Scissors. My life is ruined.