A serial visual novel/mech brawler about four gay disasters beating up neonazis in giant robots made of meat. Get ready for the worst road trip of all time.
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Weird how every character is somehow literally me
Heather Flowers clawed this game into existence out of the ether and I thank her for it. The combat sections are kinda janky but that's not the point, the point is that these poor children are having to drag themselves across the desert and they have no one but each other and they're gonna SURVIVE this cruel world no matter what!
Extreme Meatpunks is a complicated game. It’s not complicated to play, though, as it combines visual novel passages with dodge n’ click, top-down brawling. That brawling is not exactly a strong point, although it’s occasionally oddly satisfying. Pulling of a dodge on with its… dodgy controls and then knocking a mech piloted by a fascist off a cliff makes for a solid moment. Similarly, the dialogue see-saws back and forth in tone and topic. Ultimately, I think those are nitpicks. The game as a whole is wild, fun, earnest, and very angry. It imagines an alternate reality, not only in-game but in terms of what games might be. I’ll be thinking about it for a while.
Finally, a game with representation for me, a skeleton inside of a worn out meat suit.
Messy gay disasters on a road-trip to nowhere. The combat can be a pain but when the queer body politics hit, they hit like a motherfucker.
This review contains spoilers
Con todo lo estereotípico woke-queer-anti-capitalist-american-indi game que pueda parecer (y que es), defiende como pocos contemporáneos el apelativo "punk". En una escena sus personajes se presentan y dan sus pronombres, en la siguiente pelean contra nazis a puñetazos montados en robots de carne(supongo que es lo esperable del género visual novel/mech brawler). Que esta estupidez superficial no lleve a pensar que todo es una broma, Extreme Meatpunks Forever es uno de los juegos más frescos de los últimos años. Poco le importan las reglas formales. El punto de vista pivota indistintamente entre los cuatro protagonistas, la narradora, sin previo aviso, puede romper la cuarta pared para advertirnos de lo que viene a continuación y las peleas en mecha ni siquiera necesitan cosas tan triviales como "efectos de sonido". Todo está en continuo movimiento y aunque a veces puedan irritar, son sus personajes la principal toma de tierra en mitad de esta tormenta eléctrica que es el juego.