Kotel Ne Gori: A Friend of Lena Boots

Kotel Ne Gori: A Friend of Lena Boots
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Metacritic
96
Steam
65.25
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Price
$0.49
Release date
1 September 2020
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96 (59 votes)

Become Kotel and liberate beloved Princess of Gigacrush that was abducted. Accept true-hearted friends to accompany your traverse.

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Kotel Ne Gori: A Friend of Lena Boots system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows 7 or newer
  • Processor: Athlon 200ge
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Vega 3
  • Storage: 400 MB available space
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Jersh
Jersh

When I play a game, I like to think about what it would be like to honestly live in the world the game takes place in, and I genuinely think I would rather live in hell than the world of Kotel Ne Gori
Kotel Ne Gori is an experience game. It is easily the most aggressively surreal game I have ever played. At any moment there will be several voices screaming at you in Russian (which I cannot understand,) the levels are confusing, and often shrouded in near-complete darkness. Saying this, I did eventually get pretty decent at navigating the levels, and in general the checkpoints are pretty lenient.
The final boss is harder than any darksouls boss, I fucking swear. That shit feels actually sisyphian. It is complete bullshit, but I think its just achievable enough to feel incredibly satisfying once you finish. But will probably take you about as long as the entirety of the game before that point.
Overall, the game takes about an hour to finish. While it is fun, you should definitely play it more for the experience than for the gameplay, for 99 cents I think its very worth it. Steam also ate my time in the game for some reason, I should have a little over an hour of playtime

jofer
jofer

what a weird little game didnt know what to expect going in but the little ive played so far ive really liked the vibe, gona try find some more time later to play properly

Xavier: Renegade Angel
Xavier: Renega…

The best way I can break this down is that this features PS1 level graphics with impossible geometry oh and there's a floating blue head that can only be described as 'bobby hill but asian' that follows you every step and at first I thought he was attacking me but it turns out he's actually friendly and is always nearby. The ammo you use to shoot the bad guys are rakes. Just endless rakes. It is with my strikingly limited grasp of this game to assume that Kotel himself is some kind of Mario from a parallel dimension where only nightmares can and/or are forced to exist. I think I fought a boss but it killed me and never reappeared so I'm not 100% sure what was going on there either.

This is one of the better uses of 84 cents that I can remember on Steam.

Mastercow
Mastercow

This was an amazing experience. Truly amazing.

Muckelchen
Muckelchen

Wtf is this crap. No seriously, this is awful. And wait till you come to the boss fight. Then it gets even worse.
Don't get all the positive reviews, probably just for memes.

Blake
Blake

Kotel is cursed, deep fried, worth the $1 price tag, and completely worth your time. The player movement feels really similar to the recent Doom games and overall it's pretty fun.

I made a short video on it here if you are interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBRyLKKHnIs&ab_channel=4AMSession

Oldgayracist
Oldgayracist

+ linux native
+ surreal
+ fast paced
+ great level design
+ you break ebalniki
+ and ssish in the mouth

- very short, lacks content

recommended.

Tiramisu
Tiramisu

This game makes me feel uncomfortable.

Uninstalled and refunded.

Vervexx
Vervexx

Kotel Ne Gori: A Friend of Lena Boots is a surrealist platformer / FPS where you play as a little guy called Kotel who has for mission to rescue a princess with the help of some friends and your trusty infinite pitchforks. Seems simple enough at first glance right? What If I told you the whole thing takes place in a nightmare-like dimension where the backgrounds and lights constantly change, making every jump a gamble?

Yeah, a bit harder than it looks but is it good? Let's find out!

The positive

- Surrealist adventure with an unique art style , retro graphics (similar to what you might find on a PS1 or Nintendo 64) , a weird story and an odd cast of characters

- Interesting environments and great execution with the special effects

- The gameplay is smooth and works as it should , I had a blast speedrunning through the levels

- Correctly optimized, I didn't experience much lag or frame drop while playing

- It's short, relatively fast-paced and doesn't overstay it's welcome

- It's cheap which is always a good thing in my book

The negative

- The final boss was a bit too hard and in my opinion broke the pacing of an otherwise rather good game. Half of my playtime was trying to beat him

- Some vocal lines out of the cutscenes are exclusively in russian which is not really a problem but subtitles would have been nice

- I wish the companions would help a bit more or allow you do some special attacks

- There are tons of flashing lights so it might not be the best game for anyone with a condition related to epilepsy

Verdict

Kotel Ne Gori: A Friend of Lena Boots is a solid title but it is also a weird one, the kind that make you say ''What the hell did I just play?'' but in a good way. It's enjoyable, mezmerizing and has a ton of personality.

If you're looking for something different to play or to confuse the hell out of your stream, this game is probably for you.

It's not perfect (and even a bit frustrating at times, especially that boss part) but I have to say it's one of the most original experience I've had in a video game so far. Good job dev!

ANNOYING CROW
ANNOYING CROW

JAK AND DAXTER IF IT WAS MADE BY RUSSIANS CAW CAW

cheezeEGGSTREEME
cheezeEGGSTREEME

I have no idea what this game is, I liked it but I don't understand anything that is going on.
The controls are good and don't feel too loose, jumping is a bit floaty but the level design works with it so no real issue with that.
Easy to grasp, amusing and an interesting experience.

My main gripe with it is that most of the cut scenes are pretty much the same.
Also when the dude swears in the cut scenes it doesn't show up in the English subtitles for some reason.

(If you are struggling with the dark shadows just turn them off in the pause menu)

Kotel

startled cate
startled cate

feels like i'm tripping, but for much cheaper

JohnsNightmares
JohnsNightmares

It was fun and very weird. I just wish it ran better on my pc but other then that I really enjoyed it.

Psycho
Psycho

It took me way to long to write this review.
You can see this is something special by trailer alone. The way I described it initially was "discounted russian LSD"
but it's much more than that. Crazy visuals and soundtrack make it perfect description of years 2020 and 2021 if you survived it solely on drugs and antidepressants. Somehow this pure nonsense made it the game I actually enjoyed...
I really have nothing on my defence. It might be the best 80 cents I spent on a game ever.
But after many minutes of totaly surreal enviroments, crazy jumping, waiting for annoying floating head that illuminates your way, listening to pokemon-like nature of main hero, looking at the deepest throats in the world (seriously, in-game enemy women characters can fit the entire rake in there), "oioioioioi" sounds, deadly rake spamming madness, talks about beating everyone's faces in, bizzare soundtrack which still plays in my head...
Every time I lay down to sleep or wake up in this world we live in...
Only ONE question boggles my mind.
Who the hell is Lena Boots?

string
string

- i didn't understand this game at all
- i bought it for like a dollar
- it's incredibly disorienting and usually hard to tell what it is you're supposed to be doing or where you're supposed to go, but when in doubt, go up.
- absolute drug trip of an fps, short and... sweet? very confusing but worth your time probably

i did beat it, i don't know what the intended method of completing... most of the stages was, but the movement the engine allows and the devs' willingness to enable collisions on literally everything means it definitely wasn't how i wound up doing it. i got lost more than a few times, and in general it was just kind of disorienting and particularly hard to see; there were a few times on the... 5th level, i think? where i was just dying over and over on purpose trying to reroll the post processing to something that would give me better visibility.

it's an odd game, but if you like checking out weird surreal games in wildly abusable 3d movement engines, this one's for you!

and i have to say - i wasn't expecting the boss to be as hard as it was. average level times for me were between 7 and 10 minutes, but the boss took nearly a half hour. definitely frustrating, killed a lot of the entertainment in retrospect given that the end became a lot less rewarding and a lot more "wow, glad that's over" but that could just be my general incompetence at FPS games speaking.

still, if you've got 80 cents or whatever lying around, i'd say it's worth it. have fun!