It's kinda fucked up how Sheb Wooley gets relieved that the Purple People Eater only eats purple people. Sure he came to be in a rock and roll band but if he ever gets to a purple person it's over. And he isn't even that good, to be honest. I still think he easily beats Alvin and his devilspawn brothers, we truly live in the worst timeline possible.
In his seminal work, "スペインはアメリカから鉱物を返還しなければならない (Supein wa Amerika kara kōbutsu o henkan shinakereba naranai)" Liquidrocks calls this game a love letter filled with anthrax and after thoroughly playing it and barely paying attention to it I tend to agree with him. This isn't game as much as a shoutbox for Suda51. He's at his most caustic here, going through a list of grievances and screaming and each and everyone of them.
The only place he really holds back is in regards to what I assume he considers his peers, the indie game scene (specifically the western one, and predominantly Devolver at that), constantly showing how they have come to inspire him, narratively speaking at least. Playing this made me remember fondly the times when I started playing videogames, being utterly enthralled by the magic of computers and consoles. There was a whole summer where I pretended to be a Warcraft 3 unit, clicking the ground in my mind to move around the house and looking at the sky wondering if the aliens would get me like in the Sims 2.
This acidic tirade can be a doubled edged sword since it looks like the list that includes you, the player. Simply put, this is not enjoyable to play roughly 70% of the time, with mediocre beat em 'up action and barebones rgp mechanics with skills and yadda yadda. It also doesn't help that you all of the six stages feel like they are about double the lenght they should be and barely use the gimmick of the game they take place in. The only break in monotony are some visual novel segments with their own highs and lows, exceeding at criticizing the medium but in my opinion failing at making the self references to Suda's previous work feel anything but reculer. This was a dissapointment to me, as I expected to vibe with this part of the story, but I ended up looking at what felt to me a man masturbating inside his own game about how cool his other games are. Granted if I ever finish making any of the projects I envision I would do the same 24/7 but it would have class, baby.
All in all a really mixed bag to me, saved by the charm of it all and the pretty well done message of pain inflicted upon the creator. Also Boneface fucking rules, straight A on the designs. 9/11 didn't happen.
In his seminal work, "スペインはアメリカから鉱物を返還しなければならない (Supein wa Amerika kara kōbutsu o henkan shinakereba naranai)" Liquidrocks calls this game a love letter filled with anthrax and after thoroughly playing it and barely paying attention to it I tend to agree with him. This isn't game as much as a shoutbox for Suda51. He's at his most caustic here, going through a list of grievances and screaming and each and everyone of them.
The only place he really holds back is in regards to what I assume he considers his peers, the indie game scene (specifically the western one, and predominantly Devolver at that), constantly showing how they have come to inspire him, narratively speaking at least. Playing this made me remember fondly the times when I started playing videogames, being utterly enthralled by the magic of computers and consoles. There was a whole summer where I pretended to be a Warcraft 3 unit, clicking the ground in my mind to move around the house and looking at the sky wondering if the aliens would get me like in the Sims 2.
This acidic tirade can be a doubled edged sword since it looks like the list that includes you, the player. Simply put, this is not enjoyable to play roughly 70% of the time, with mediocre beat em 'up action and barebones rgp mechanics with skills and yadda yadda. It also doesn't help that you all of the six stages feel like they are about double the lenght they should be and barely use the gimmick of the game they take place in. The only break in monotony are some visual novel segments with their own highs and lows, exceeding at criticizing the medium but in my opinion failing at making the self references to Suda's previous work feel anything but reculer. This was a dissapointment to me, as I expected to vibe with this part of the story, but I ended up looking at what felt to me a man masturbating inside his own game about how cool his other games are. Granted if I ever finish making any of the projects I envision I would do the same 24/7 but it would have class, baby.
All in all a really mixed bag to me, saved by the charm of it all and the pretty well done message of pain inflicted upon the creator. Also Boneface fucking rules, straight A on the designs. 9/11 didn't happen.