If you lived in the late seventies and were well-versed in the underground rock scene at the time, chances are you might have been to a Rallizes Dénudés concert, there is an undeniable catharism in letting these slow and hypnotic ballads take you away as they turn into nightmarish, ear-scorching walls of sound.
Chances are even higher that you called them absolutely batshit insane.

It's no surprise that a game so unapologetically repulsive as Space Funeral uses Rallizes Dénudés songs in its soundtrack, it's a product of the early 2010s random and gross memes era, you don't even have to look further than its mix of primary colors that bleeds your eyes out to come to this conclusion.

But if you do look further, you might enter a house within another house just to find a beheaded corpse that says "help me".
You might find a Mohai statue that looks at you dead in the eye speaking the wise word : "Doom."
You might even meet Dracula himself !

Space Funeral embraces originality and "imperfection" over games that play it safely made out exclusively of bland RPG Maker default assets, it's a proud standard of the "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable" motto.

And I call that bloody brilliant.

Reviewed on Sep 21, 2023


2 Comments


8 months ago

Great Write up and nice info, I didn't know this game has Rallizes Dénudés in it's soundtrack. love the raw gelidity in their recordings. Kinda need to see now how that marries with nasty memes and RPG maker shizzle. That combination seems like it makes sense

8 months ago

I'm really glad you enjoyed Space Funeral, super interesting reflexion at the end and I really like how you also connected the insanity of the soundtrack with the insanity of... well, the rest of the game xD.

Great review!