Toss in SADX, hit Input 2 on the TV, boom
Ooooooooh shit, Dad's running downstairs. He's yelling to turn it down. Quick, get the remote
Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
The audio-sensory overload of children's media is bludgeoning - an overload of vocal-chord-contorting performances and vorpal echoes. It's not just the sounds themselves, but specific rhythms, candors and patterns in certain catchphrases. I recall this one point in childhood, maybe 12 or so, where I saw Egoraptor's Mega Man X review and was so enamored in the specific gags, I would just repeat things like 'Where do I go, what do I do' and 'Mega Man 12, this land before time' like a parrot.
OOooooooooooh shit he liked Sequilitis, let's tickle his ribcage and push him off a waterfall
I was dumb and stupid, and I thankfully don't do that anymore! Now I bide my time memorizing and repeating whole Homestar Runner episodes in calls!
Also, I have a younger brother that also does this.
I will mouthgurgle about how this relates to Poinie, uhh, 2 paragraphs down from here. Boop of the bop.
Poinie's Poin is a fake game that does not exist and was made up by dreamcast aesthetic twitter pages. It is a Japanese-exclusive PS2 3D Platformer was voice-performed in English FIRST, and has ENG subs to match (with a shitton of typos, but totally legible nonetheless). The dub isn't an option tucked away in a menu like DC Puyo Pop Fever, it's there on the main title and pops up again every time you continue your progress. It's totally warped around the crazy-hazy antics of American 'toons with a capital T, but it's never overtly a 'cartoon parody' - the influence comes down to a synthesis of English wordplay with Japanese character themes and bubblegum imagery, and a heaping helping of 'squash and stretch the models as much as you can'.
Calling this a platformer is a bit misleading tho. If I could describe the experience, it's like, a 5 hour RPG Maker puzzle game turned 3D and injected with ooze. Most of the runtime is spent exploring the hub world or dialogue - which is perfectly ok, 'cause most of it kicks ass. Every line is voiced, and all the vocal performances are rock-solid. Couldn't get enough of these weirdos just mouthing off random things with their dumb vocal inflections and immature mannerisms. The only knock against it is that the platforming is mostly mid-to-bad. Moment-to-moment objectives are vague, and Poinie's toolkit and camera are too limited to do anything creative. Think Ape Escape if there were no gadgets or monkeys to catch.
There was a specific 'my brand of autism is seen' moment in Poinie's Poin, where the game opens with Poinie totally sucked into this dumbass cartoon, and he spends the rest of the game repeating his main catchphrase ("Yippie Yo! You Can't Touch This!") for the entire remaining duration of the game. He says it during plot important events! He says it during cutscene dialogue! He says it when you beat an objective! He even fucking says it in the OST! The entire universe speaks in a similar broken-record prose, spouting off American-English expressions every chance they get.
I was awestruck by the feeling of being a kid and taking in contextless information, processing through air-headed and nonsensical ways, and doing nothing with it - 'cause you're a kid, what can you do but study and play? A lot of shit happens in this game's 3-5 hour runtime but hardly any sticks, it all comes down to wayward shenanigans handled with the frivolity of a backyard wiffle ball game. Just that child-like mentality of responding at 100% emotional investment to something, then moving on as if it never happened. Bess is head over heels with Tom and practically threatens to kill him when he starts groan-inducingly flirting w/ another character, but immediately resumes the Juliet act after the fact. You complete a mission so you can fix up a broken train station, but then the train gives up halfway and takes you home and you never use it again. There's a fucked up bit where a prankster ghost haunts a parent with the vision of their deceased son, and it's not played for laughs or for drama, it's just a thing that happens?? A sacrificial character bit is pulled near the end, and it's the one moment where Poinie genuinely gets knocked out of his 'hehe funny cartoon' mode, and then the status quo in his brain resets as soon as his mom appears. Life goes on.
Anyway yeah, Poinie's Poin is one-of-a-kind. Crazy how little coverage or documentation surrounds its existence despite being a SCE production with a cross-cultural development. In a sane timeline, Sony would just throw the Japanese ROM on the PS4 store, but we don't get nice things here. Fuckin', Syphon Filter and PSP Star Wars games, Jim Ryan? Self-sabotaging loser weirdo.
Ooooooooh shit, Dad's running downstairs. He's yelling to turn it down. Quick, get the remote
Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
The audio-sensory overload of children's media is bludgeoning - an overload of vocal-chord-contorting performances and vorpal echoes. It's not just the sounds themselves, but specific rhythms, candors and patterns in certain catchphrases. I recall this one point in childhood, maybe 12 or so, where I saw Egoraptor's Mega Man X review and was so enamored in the specific gags, I would just repeat things like 'Where do I go, what do I do' and 'Mega Man 12, this land before time' like a parrot.
OOooooooooooh shit he liked Sequilitis, let's tickle his ribcage and push him off a waterfall
I was dumb and stupid, and I thankfully don't do that anymore! Now I bide my time memorizing and repeating whole Homestar Runner episodes in calls!
Also, I have a younger brother that also does this.
I will mouthgurgle about how this relates to Poinie, uhh, 2 paragraphs down from here. Boop of the bop.
Poinie's Poin is a fake game that does not exist and was made up by dreamcast aesthetic twitter pages. It is a Japanese-exclusive PS2 3D Platformer was voice-performed in English FIRST, and has ENG subs to match (with a shitton of typos, but totally legible nonetheless). The dub isn't an option tucked away in a menu like DC Puyo Pop Fever, it's there on the main title and pops up again every time you continue your progress. It's totally warped around the crazy-hazy antics of American 'toons with a capital T, but it's never overtly a 'cartoon parody' - the influence comes down to a synthesis of English wordplay with Japanese character themes and bubblegum imagery, and a heaping helping of 'squash and stretch the models as much as you can'.
Calling this a platformer is a bit misleading tho. If I could describe the experience, it's like, a 5 hour RPG Maker puzzle game turned 3D and injected with ooze. Most of the runtime is spent exploring the hub world or dialogue - which is perfectly ok, 'cause most of it kicks ass. Every line is voiced, and all the vocal performances are rock-solid. Couldn't get enough of these weirdos just mouthing off random things with their dumb vocal inflections and immature mannerisms. The only knock against it is that the platforming is mostly mid-to-bad. Moment-to-moment objectives are vague, and Poinie's toolkit and camera are too limited to do anything creative. Think Ape Escape if there were no gadgets or monkeys to catch.
There was a specific 'my brand of autism is seen' moment in Poinie's Poin, where the game opens with Poinie totally sucked into this dumbass cartoon, and he spends the rest of the game repeating his main catchphrase ("Yippie Yo! You Can't Touch This!") for the entire remaining duration of the game. He says it during plot important events! He says it during cutscene dialogue! He says it when you beat an objective! He even fucking says it in the OST! The entire universe speaks in a similar broken-record prose, spouting off American-English expressions every chance they get.
I was awestruck by the feeling of being a kid and taking in contextless information, processing through air-headed and nonsensical ways, and doing nothing with it - 'cause you're a kid, what can you do but study and play? A lot of shit happens in this game's 3-5 hour runtime but hardly any sticks, it all comes down to wayward shenanigans handled with the frivolity of a backyard wiffle ball game. Just that child-like mentality of responding at 100% emotional investment to something, then moving on as if it never happened. Bess is head over heels with Tom and practically threatens to kill him when he starts groan-inducingly flirting w/ another character, but immediately resumes the Juliet act after the fact. You complete a mission so you can fix up a broken train station, but then the train gives up halfway and takes you home and you never use it again. There's a fucked up bit where a prankster ghost haunts a parent with the vision of their deceased son, and it's not played for laughs or for drama, it's just a thing that happens?? A sacrificial character bit is pulled near the end, and it's the one moment where Poinie genuinely gets knocked out of his 'hehe funny cartoon' mode, and then the status quo in his brain resets as soon as his mom appears. Life goes on.
Anyway yeah, Poinie's Poin is one-of-a-kind. Crazy how little coverage or documentation surrounds its existence despite being a SCE production with a cross-cultural development. In a sane timeline, Sony would just throw the Japanese ROM on the PS4 store, but we don't get nice things here. Fuckin', Syphon Filter and PSP Star Wars games, Jim Ryan? Self-sabotaging loser weirdo.