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[GAMING] SUPERHOT is 5 Years Old

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SUPERHOT is 5 years old SUPERHOT is five years old. And I've been playing it since the beginning. In case you've never heard of the most innovative shooter I've played in years. No, not just because I have been programmed to say that – it literally is the most innovative shooter I've played in years. The core idea of "time only moves when you do" is pure electric gold. It turns what is a frenetic experience into something more akin to a complex turn-based experience, one in which you have ample opportunity to consider how badly you just screwed up as you watch a bullet that you don't have the means to intercept hurtle right to your head – and beyond. When you're successful, when it's over, when the deadly dance of death has played itself out and you stand atop a pile of exploded red guy corpses, you get the chance to watch your magnificent ballet in what would be real-time. You catch that fleeting moment where you sliced a bullet in half or r