So, i'm one of those guys. The guy that hears "radiohead" and just thinks of Creep. I'm sorry, i'm just not into pop music that much. Is radiohead even pop music? Whatever. I've absorbed a couple more of their songs through cultural osmosis, i guess.
Basically, I'm not the target market for this. I've never listened to Kid A and Amnesia. And honestly, this project thing doesn't really give me a massive desire to go out and do so. The experience culminates with some cut-down style recordings/remixes of songs from the albums and it's just thoroughly uncompelling. The visuals involed are cool but the sequences themselves are so mind-numbingly long that I found myself completely zoning out and trying to make things look funny. Doesn't help that these new recordings just seem overall way less energetic than from what i can tell radiohead stuff normally is - and frankly maybe the band's music just isn't that well suited to the bombastic sequences that's gone for here.
What does work better here is the section before all those bombastic visual setpieces. The exhibition portion of the game is way more interesting, even if it is literally just a museum where you go round and look at some exhibition art pieces and paintings and shit. The level of visual fidelity here is absolutely ridiculous and really lends the vibe of like, watching a recording of the louvre or something, and then wandering around these weird, pretty exhibits at your own pace whilst the low-key radiohead plays in the background - it works pretty well! The art pieces are pretty good and the museum itself sort of is one, with what im fairly sure is impossible spaces that twist around each other, and weird rooms. It's a little eerie, but also kinda cute, and the sheer variety and amount of pieces of art scaterred all over the place really makes it fun to just walk about in. There's such huge amounts of detail, and it really feels like a well executed virtual exhibit that embraces that its virtual with impossible elements - it feels like some cool exhibit you'd see at the milennium dome and pay like way too much money for. Which is pretty much all id want from this sort of thing.
By the way, am I the only one who sees that radiohead logo cat thing as Neko Arc from Tsukhime/Melty Blood. It's very distracting. Burunyuu...
Basically, I'm not the target market for this. I've never listened to Kid A and Amnesia. And honestly, this project thing doesn't really give me a massive desire to go out and do so. The experience culminates with some cut-down style recordings/remixes of songs from the albums and it's just thoroughly uncompelling. The visuals involed are cool but the sequences themselves are so mind-numbingly long that I found myself completely zoning out and trying to make things look funny. Doesn't help that these new recordings just seem overall way less energetic than from what i can tell radiohead stuff normally is - and frankly maybe the band's music just isn't that well suited to the bombastic sequences that's gone for here.
What does work better here is the section before all those bombastic visual setpieces. The exhibition portion of the game is way more interesting, even if it is literally just a museum where you go round and look at some exhibition art pieces and paintings and shit. The level of visual fidelity here is absolutely ridiculous and really lends the vibe of like, watching a recording of the louvre or something, and then wandering around these weird, pretty exhibits at your own pace whilst the low-key radiohead plays in the background - it works pretty well! The art pieces are pretty good and the museum itself sort of is one, with what im fairly sure is impossible spaces that twist around each other, and weird rooms. It's a little eerie, but also kinda cute, and the sheer variety and amount of pieces of art scaterred all over the place really makes it fun to just walk about in. There's such huge amounts of detail, and it really feels like a well executed virtual exhibit that embraces that its virtual with impossible elements - it feels like some cool exhibit you'd see at the milennium dome and pay like way too much money for. Which is pretty much all id want from this sort of thing.
By the way, am I the only one who sees that radiohead logo cat thing as Neko Arc from Tsukhime/Melty Blood. It's very distracting. Burunyuu...