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Well here is my first ACTUAL review. Here goes nothing
Oneshot was my favorite video game of all time for the longest time i can remember. It was the first game that made me invested in its world, story and characters. It defined what video games should be for me. Up until that point, the only genre of games i would play were platformers / metroidvanias. So when i decided to try this game out on a whim, it all hit me like a truck. It was weird for me to play a game didn't have any kind of gameplay mechanics basically. The only sort of gameplay you have in this game is, combining your items from your inventory and using it somewhere. There are also some fourth wall break puzzles too but thats about it really. But despite this game being the opposite of what i liked in video games up until that point. The one thing that kept me going was the game's protagonist, Niko.
Niko isn't just a blank slate you instert yourself upon so you feel ''more immersed''. He is more or less, a puppet. We control him, but only his actions, not his emotions. So the only control we have over him is controlling where he goes and what he does . Throught the game, you communicate with him in a literal sense, having conversations etc. During the game, he asks you silly but endearing questions like if we ever ate pancakes, or if there is a sun in our world. We also watch him have these endearing interactions with other characters as well. We dont really have that much control, we watch him meet with all these endearing cast of characters and then telling us how nice and kind they were. this is Niko's journey, not ours. Watching him eventually getting used to the world around and the circumstances of it all, and us emotionally supporting him through it all, telling him everything's going to be fine and he will go home. A little kid with the literal god of this world on his side trying to save the world. So, after all this, at the end of the game we learn that the only way to save niko is to, destroy the world you and niko grew to love so much and were determined to save, and only way for the world to be saved, is by niko sacrificing himself. Niko stays silent and ask us for help on what he should do and says he trust us. If we chose to save the world, Niko says we are right and that he cant leave everyone here to die and thanks us for everything. When we try to boot up the game after this, it shows us Niko's room with a faint glimmer of light from the window.
There are many aspects of this game i didnt talk about and probably failed to talk about. This game means so much to me, it defined my taste in video games and is still defining it, to this day. But i mainly wanted to talk about the aspect of the game that made it really special for me. Its not my favorite video game of all time anymore, since i fell in love with other video games that i simply like more than this one but this wont change the fact that this game defines what i like in video games, loveable characters, immersive worlds, and most important of all, Emotion and passion being put into it
Oneshot was my favorite video game of all time for the longest time i can remember. It was the first game that made me invested in its world, story and characters. It defined what video games should be for me. Up until that point, the only genre of games i would play were platformers / metroidvanias. So when i decided to try this game out on a whim, it all hit me like a truck. It was weird for me to play a game didn't have any kind of gameplay mechanics basically. The only sort of gameplay you have in this game is, combining your items from your inventory and using it somewhere. There are also some fourth wall break puzzles too but thats about it really. But despite this game being the opposite of what i liked in video games up until that point. The one thing that kept me going was the game's protagonist, Niko.
Niko isn't just a blank slate you instert yourself upon so you feel ''more immersed''. He is more or less, a puppet. We control him, but only his actions, not his emotions. So the only control we have over him is controlling where he goes and what he does . Throught the game, you communicate with him in a literal sense, having conversations etc. During the game, he asks you silly but endearing questions like if we ever ate pancakes, or if there is a sun in our world. We also watch him have these endearing interactions with other characters as well. We dont really have that much control, we watch him meet with all these endearing cast of characters and then telling us how nice and kind they were. this is Niko's journey, not ours. Watching him eventually getting used to the world around and the circumstances of it all, and us emotionally supporting him through it all, telling him everything's going to be fine and he will go home. A little kid with the literal god of this world on his side trying to save the world. So, after all this, at the end of the game we learn that the only way to save niko is to, destroy the world you and niko grew to love so much and were determined to save, and only way for the world to be saved, is by niko sacrificing himself. Niko stays silent and ask us for help on what he should do and says he trust us. If we chose to save the world, Niko says we are right and that he cant leave everyone here to die and thanks us for everything. When we try to boot up the game after this, it shows us Niko's room with a faint glimmer of light from the window.
There are many aspects of this game i didnt talk about and probably failed to talk about. This game means so much to me, it defined my taste in video games and is still defining it, to this day. But i mainly wanted to talk about the aspect of the game that made it really special for me. Its not my favorite video game of all time anymore, since i fell in love with other video games that i simply like more than this one but this wont change the fact that this game defines what i like in video games, loveable characters, immersive worlds, and most important of all, Emotion and passion being put into it
Danio237
2 years ago